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Accessing a multi-user project using worksharing

Accessing a multi-user project using worksharing - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2021: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial and Metric)

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Accessing a multi-user project using worksharing

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- [Instructor] In this video, I want to talk briefly about how to access a workshare enabled project. Now, just what exactly is a workshare enabled project? Well, this is a team project, the project that's specifically designed to allow multiple user access. Now, most of the time, if you're working in a firm with more than one person, the projects that you use in Revit will be set up this way. And that is so that each of the team members can all work simultaneously within the same project. If you didn't set up the project with worksharing enabled, then what would happen is, after the first person opens the project, the subsequent folks that try and join in would get a message saying the file is read only and that they can't save any of their changes. So that would naturally not be a very efficient way to work in a team. All I want to do in this video is show you how to one, identify that you have a workshare enabled project…

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