Using Worksharing in a Project

In this lesson, you learn the fundamentals of Worksharing. This includes how to plan and execute the use of worksets
in a project in order to maximize project and team performance. You begin by enabling Worksharing within a project
and setting up the initial workset environment. In the next exercise, you learn how to work as an individual with the
central and local project files. You then learn how to work within a Worksharing-enabled project with multiple users
and how to borrow particular elements from other users.

Enabling Worksharing and Setting Up Worksets

In this exercise, you enable Worksharing within an existing project. You subdivide the project into worksets and save
the project as the central file.
Dataset

■ Click File menu ➤ Open.

■ In the left pane of the Open dialog, click the Training Files icon.
■ Open the m_RST_Worksets.rvtfile located in the Metric folder.

Enable Worksharing

1 On the Options Bar, click .

NOTE You can also access the Worksets dialog by clicking File menu ➤ Worksets.

2 Click OK to accept the default workset names.

The Worksets dialog is displayed.

Notice that all worksets are open and editable by you, and User1 is displayed as the present owner.

3 TIP The initial owner name is assigned by the operating system of your computer. For training purposes, the
username was changed in the Options dialog (accessible from the Settings menu). You cannot change your
username with an unsaved Worksharing-enabled project open.

4 In the Worksets dialog, under Show, select:

■ Families

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