Initiate a Project Connection

Background

Only the users at the Receiving company account can initiate a connection. Sending company accounts can choose to automatically approve connections, or require review to manually accept or reject a Receiving project's request to connect. See Configure Connection Approval Settings. Projects can be disconnected by the Sending or Receiving account at any time.

Things to Consider

Steps

  1. Navigate to the project's Connection Manager tool.

  2. Click Add Connection.

  3. Select the sending company and project.

  4. Click Next.

  5. In the 'Sharing Preferences' step, mark the checkboxes for the tools you want to receive data from:

    • All Published Drawings

      • Receive All Published Drawings.

    • All Closed RFIs

      • Receive All Closed RFI.

    • Participating Distributed Submittals

      • All Distributed Submittals.

      • Participating Distributed Submittals Only.

        • Receive synced copies only when someone from your company is a: Submittal Manager, Submittal Reviewer, Workflow Participant, or Distribution List Member ).

  6. Select at least one feature for this connection, then click Next.

  7. Review the Considerations, then click Confirm Connection to initiate the project connection.

    • If the sending company chose to automatically approve connections, your projects connect instantly.

    • If the sending company's settings require manual review, Procore sends a request to the sending company for review.

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