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DWF is dead - Running on legacy life support at this point. Playing DWF is likely going to lead to some fire drills when we begin to see issues... Bluebeam Anyone?!!

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I Pinged Scott Sheppard about DWFs on the on the Autodesk Forum yesterday . DWF is on legacy life support- Why can't Autodesk commit to ending it and moving on? No telling what bugs will pop up with the windows 10 updates going as they have been. Surprising with their migration to ABC for subscription users they haven't removed it from the lineup to push people to the cloud- maybe in the next 3-6 months they will pull it to gain more traction for the cloud, but I suspect Bluebeam is too much of a competitor so maybe they'll just let it continue to let it atrophy. Autodesk Design Review continues to be part of our desktop offerings. There are  no plans to remove the download . Unless there is some unforeseen operating system change that necessitates updating Design Review, there are  no plans to update it.  As has been mentioned in this thread, our focus is on the cloud where there can be a single source of truth (reduce the number of separate files), the ability to apply

Convert Deltek Report (CSV, TXT) to folder structure based on indexing of NCS4.0

This code takes a CSV formatted report from Deltek and looks for key variables in the report header to create a folder structure. In lieu of long folder names it creates numbers and descriptive shortcuts to the folders. VBS Code below: Option Explicit Const version = "v2014-09-03-01.0" ''Script takes a csv text based output report from Deltek and uses it to create folder structure on P. Const strFPt = "P:\"         ''Target File PathDim FP Const vbqt = """"                ''define VBQt for quotation mark ''Lots of globals on this one: Public strDataArr               ''Readline of data from file Public strDiscID                ''discipline ID Const RemapE = True          ''Remap E will create the S/SZ folders if E is in the disciplines . Const ForReading = 1 , ForWriting = 2 , ForAppending = 8   ''       '''Deltek Variables store