I would like to be able to construct links directly to a document code. Currently the only options are to copy a URL or URN for a document.
Background: Document Codes are used to generate names in a consistent manner and ensure that there is one canonical document with that code within a (workarea? datasource?). Like a URL, they are independent of the GUID, and like a URN, they are independent of the folder location.
Why this would be useful: Users can create links to documents from spreadsheets or other software in a robust fashion which is not prone to URL breakage from reorganization, or URNs leading to archived/superseded copies of a document.
Proposed scheme: pw://server:datasource/Documents/.../<workarea>/DC{Some_Document_Code}
Ian Smith
My primary use case is when receiving information from others, say a list of deliverables in email or spreadsheet, then creating links to them in our ProjectWise without having to drill down to each folder and copy one-by-one, or mass export the list of files in many subdirectories and filter for links that way.