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Configure Advanced Settings: Project Documents

Objective

To configure advanced settings for your project's Documents tool.

Things to Consider

  • Required User Permissions:
    • 'Admin' on the project's Documents tool.

Video

 

Steps

Document Settings

  1. Navigate to the project's Documents tool.
  2. Click the Configure Settings icons-settings-gear.png icon.  
  3. Under Document Settings, click one of the following to configure or update your settings:

General

  1. Under Document Settings, click General and review the following settings:
    • Documents and Folders Private by Default
      • Click Yes if you want new files and folders to be marked as Private automatically.
        OR
      • Click No if you want new files and folders to be visible to all users with 'Read Only' or higher permissions to the Documents tool. 
        Note: You can manually set individual files and folders to Private at any time. See Manage Permissions for Files and Folders.
    • Enable Deletion of Multiple Documents:
      • Click Yes if you want to enable deleting multiple documents.
        OR
      • Click No if you do not want to delete multiple documents.
    • Import Options: You can email files into the Documents tool by sending them to the tool's inbound email address. The email address is listed in the same section.
      Note: Any files attached to an email sent to this address will be added to the 'Emailed Documents' folder. 
    • Copy Folder Structure: If you want to copy the folder structure from a current project, select a current project from the drop-down menu of 'Select a current Project to copy its folder structure'.
      Note: Both files and folders are copied over to the project. See Upload Files or Folders to the Project Level Documents Tool
    • Download Tools:
      • Procore Drive: Procore Drive is an application for Windows that you can use to upload and manage files for the Documents tool. 
      • Procore BIM:  The Procore Documents plugin can be installed on a Windows computer for use with Autodesk® programs. If you'd like to download Procore Drive to your Windows computer, click the download link. See Download Procore BIM Plugins
  2. Click Save Changes.

Permissions

Note: This page is only available to users who also have 'Admin' permission to the project's Directory tool.

  1. Navigate to the project's Documents tool.
  2. Click the Configure Settings icons-settings-gear.png icon.
  3. Click Permissions.
  4. To change a user's permission level for the Documents tool, click the circleclipboard_e511c66cadf4b1c30dd1f2d84b4c549fb.pngicon in the respective row. Once the permission is updated, it will be marked as clipboard_e17471bdf1be9061b55c16a0c86782bc4.png icon.
    Note: If a row is gray and unclickable, it means that the user has already been assigned the permission. You can only assign permissions to a new user.
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Note: The user is either a Procore Administrator or has been granted permissions to the Procore tools on this project using a permissions template (see What is a permissions template?). To change the user's permission level for this tool, see Manage Project Permissions Templates. To learn more, see What are the default permission levels in Procore?