Publish Designs to WorksManager
Use the Publish Designs to WorksManager command to publish one or more WorksManager project designs when:
- You create or modify WorksManager designs while offline and then connect. The data is saved to the data sync area (C:\Trimble Synchronizer Data\WorksManager\<project name>\Designs\<design name and version>) while offline and then synchronized once you go online and publish using this command. The most current/latest version of each design that you publish overwrites earlier versions in WorksManager.
- You are online and modify the data that any WorksManager designs reference, causing the designs to be out-of-sync/in-conflict. Rather than return to the WorksManager Design Manager to resolve conflicts by pushing the new data from TBC for each design individually, run this command to resynchronize multiple designs with WorksManager all at once.
Note: This command does not publish project data (units, boundary, site calibration, control points, or avoidance zones). Those are published to WorksManager automatically when you run the WorksManager Project command.
Note: The Publish Designs to WorksManager command is ‘modal’, meaning that it prevents you from interacting with other parts of the program while it is open. This keeps you from inadvertently modifying design data that would change the synchronization status of designs you are trying to publish.
Versioning
Version numbers are displayed wherever a design is shown. When a design is republished, its version number is incremented by one so that everyone (CAD technicians in the office, site managers, surveyors, and machine operators in the field) can easily determine if they have the latest design data by comparing the version numbers in WorksManager with their versions.
Prerequisites:
- License; See the Subscription Plans page. For a license matrix by command, see the License page in the TBC Community. Also see View and manage licensed features.
- Trimble Identity (TID) credentials (user name and password); create it here.
- In TBC, you are signed in to WorksManager using your TID; you must be online.
- Specified data synchronization area
- A WorksManager account; contact your SITECH dealer for details.
- A WorksManager profile that has been configured in External Services
- For existing WorksManager projects, access to them (granted by the people who created them)
- A WorksManager project created in Open WorksManager and Create a Project
- One or more WorksManager designs
Note: In addition, you cannot publish from this command if your WorksManager project data has conflicts; you must resolve those first using the WorksManager Project command.
To access the command:
- Select Publish Designs to WorksManager in Construction Data > WorksManager.
To publish designs to WorksManager:
- Confirm your User name and the Project and Account to which you want to publish. If there is no WorksManager project, this shows the name of your current TBC project.
- In the Designs list, check the boxes for one or more designs to publish to WorksManager. Designs that have changed since they were first published are tagged as (modified). You do not have to publish designs that you are still working on.
Note: You do not have to publish designs that you are still working on. Uncheck the boxes for these.
Note: The (modified) tags may change dynamically for a short time while TBC retrieves the latest version information from WorksManager. You can wait for the synchronization to finish or click OK to queue your published versions until the synchronization is complete (at which time they will be pushed to WorksManager. - Click OK.
