What better way to kickstart 2019 than with an AVAIL update! We’ve made improvements you’re not going to want to miss across AVAIL Desktop, AVAIL Browser for Revit and AVAIL Stream. This release concentrated on improving the experience of sharing Channels with members of your team and marks the commercial release of the Standalone Mode for the AVAIL Browser for Revit.
We had a major overhaul to the setup and configuration of what we now call Teams. The manage portal on getavail.com was recently updated. What used to be referred to as “Manage Users” is now “Team Members”. For those of you not using SSO (Single Sign-On) you’ll find a new “Team SignUp Mode” that makes it easy to add members to your Team via a Shareable Link. You can also now restrict new users by domain making it easier than ever to build out your Team.
AVAIL Desktop 3.10.1
We made improvements to the Shared Users feature with the AVAIL Desktop to take advantage of the improvements to building your Team. Now everyone, including Enterprise customers using SSO, can easily search for members on their Team using First Name, Last Name or Email. As you begin typing in the Search Members box you’ll see a list of Team Members matching your search criteria and easily invite them to your Channel.
Users of the free version of AVAIL can also now create Teams and begin sharing Marketplace Channels and their own two free Channels with others in their firm. Subscribers to ArchVision RPC or ArchVision Family and Detail Warehouse can also now login to AVAIL using their ArchVision account for authentication.
Bug fix: At some point we introduced a bug that was causing Keys that you had set in Tags & Filters Editor to not remember the new Key when indexing new content with the same Value. We fixed that!
We’re officially now out of beta with the Standalone Mode of the AVAIL Browser for Revit! What does this mean? It means you can now view and search for Revit content directly in the AVAIL Browser for Revit without opening AVAIL Desktop. You now have the option of running in either mode (Standalone or Desktop). The AVAIL Browser for Revit will recognize when you launch the AVAIL Desktop and switch modes automatically!
We’ve also improved some usability within Standalone Mode such as the ability to Pin Channels as well as remember the last Channel you were using upon launch.
For you Publishers we made some improvements to the Revit Project Thumbnail Generator. You now have the ability to select Families, Drafting Views, Sheets and Other Views independently for processing. A great time saver when you only need to update specific thumbnails.
On the admin front we improved the installers to adhere to Autodesk-recommended certificate installation in order to suppress that pesky “new addin found” warning.
Oh, and some bug fixes including:
Stream has been updated with full support for Revit parameter harvesting. The same Revit configuration file you use with the AVAIL Desktop is now supported with Stream.
If you’re a Stream user contact support@getavail.com for the update.