BIM Viewer - ACC Models navigation
A person who uses an ACC account should se many different folders & models depending on its ACC rights. Only a few of them are related to the Facility Management « live » processes.
It must be possible to limit the ACC folder to a specified sub-tree.
The objective is to avoid opening models not related to ARCHIBUS, or which can alternative versions.
It must be possible to define a unique list of models behind the « building » button?
It should be setup in the afm_dwgs table with defining the right place to find them in ACC.

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Axel Tasiaux commented
Thanks Octavian.
As a user might have access to many version of a same REVIT model in ACC, a tree restricted to the folders only dedicated to ARCHIBUS should be interesting to be setup as parameter.
Why not simply add field in AFM_DWGS to associated an ACC path to each cataloged model?
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Models are stored in Autodesk Docs inside of Autodesk Construction Cloud. Autodesk Docs behaves like a Document Repository with project folders and different files. The repository is dynamic and files can be easily moved from one project to another and even from one organization hub to another. This means that Archibus should not store the location of a file in the database, because it can change. Instead we store the unique id of the model, which allows us to track it more precisely.
The Autodesk Docs projects list in Archibus displays the projects and data for which the current user, either individually logged-in or as a generic user, has access to in Autodesk Construction Cloud. You can adjust these permissions at the project level and even at the file level in Autodesk Construction Cloud. The BIM Viewer then inherits those permissions.
The Buildings list in the BIM Viewer displays only the 'cataloged' models, those models that have been paired to a building in Archibus.
If you disconnect the current Autodesk user from Archibus, you still can see the 'cataloged' models because the data still exists in Archibus and the building is paired to the GUID of the model. Thus, other users that don't have Autodesk credentials will:
- either just see only the Buildings list and not the Autodesk Docs Projects list, this is the case when the BIM Viewer connects to ACC via individual Autodesk accounts;
- or the list of Buildings and only the Autodesk Docs projects and files to which the generic user has permissions to work with in Autodesk Docs. Therefore, you want to adjust the permissions of the generic users and the above behavior will be resolved.