Teams provide members with designated spaces to store and work on designs, view project status, and provide a process for controlling how data is shared with other teams.
The shared folder is a common space in the project, and includes subfolders for each team. When a team shares a package, the contents of the package are copied to the shared folder.
Project administrators can specify the shared folder location, create teams, and specify team folder locations. If Model Coordination is included in the subscription, project administrators can also create coordination spaces configured against the shared or team folders. Coordination spaces enable automated coordination and clash checking between the models contained in the selected folder and its subfolders.
After a project has been created, project administrators should follow these steps to set up teams and folders:
Click the Settings tool.
Use the Shared Folder tab to select a location for the shared folder. You can either:
Click Next and confirm the shared folder location.
Even though you can't change the location of the Shared folder using a setting, there are two workarounds which will have the same effect as changing the Shared folder location. These work even the project is already in use and it's not possible to create a project with the correct Shared folder location
Rename the Shared folder in Docs.
You can now move the Shared folder subject to the following considerations:
Move the renamed Shared folder to the desired location in Docs.
Set the Shared folder permissions in Design Collaboration. See Member Folder Permission for more information.
Take a note of the folder permissions in the current Shared folder.
Create a new folder in Docs.
Use the Move command to move the data from the current Shared folder to the new folder.
Rename the current Shared folder.
Rename the new folder using the original name of the Shared folder.
Adjust the permissions for the new folder in Docs as per the original Shared folder permissions.
Use the Team Setup tab to create teams. To create a team, either:
Specify which subfolders within each of the team folders that you want content to be included from in your team space. By default, all folders are included.
Click All in the Included folders column for the relevant team.
Choose from:
Click Save.
If the project has been bridged with other projects, click the link in the Bridge team automations column to configure which projects each team shares packages with. See team automations to learn more.
To add roles, companies, or members to teams, click the number shown in the Members column for the appropriate team and start typing the name in the search box. Select the relevant search result, and assign a permission level as needed.
If Model Coordination is activated for the project, optionally create a coordination space configured against the team folder:
If Model Coordination is activated for the project, use the Coordination tab to create a coordination space configured against the team or Shared folder:
The team name is used as the coordination space name by default, but you can rename the space appropriately without changing the folder name.
Click Next.
Deactivating a team hides it from the timeline. If contributing teams have consumed packages from this team, those packages are still accessible from the Teams panel in the Project Model.
If a team hasn't shared or consumed any packages, project administrators can delete that team from Design Collaboration. While deleting the team, the project administrator can also choose to delete the folders associated with that team.
Project administrators can adjust the default color of a team as it appears on the timeline. This can be useful if the same team exists across multiple projects. In addition, the selected color can be used to highlight each team's models when viewing the aggregated Project Model.
To adjust the color: