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
- Navigate to the project's Documents tool.
- Click the Configure Settings
icon.
- Under Document Settings, click one of the following to configure or update your settings:
General
- 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.
- Click Yes if you want new files and folders to be marked as Private automatically.
- 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.
- Click Yes if you want to enable deleting 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.
- Documents and Folders Private by Default:
- Click Save Changes.
Permissions
Note: This page is only available to users who also have 'Admin' permission to the project's Directory tool.
- Navigate to the project's Documents tool.
- Click the Configure Settings
icon.
- Click Permissions.
- To change a user's permission level for the Documents tool, click the circle
icon in the respective row. Once the permission is updated, it will be marked as
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.
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?