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Project Timeline and Packages in Bridge

Project Timeline

In Design Collaboration, the Project timeline, located at the top of the Home tool, tracks the packages that collaborating teams have shared and consumed throughout the lifecycle of a project.

In the context of Bridge, the Project timeline is split into two sections, External and Internal. The External section shows the teams that belong to bridged projects, and represents incoming team automations (packages and models) from those teams. The Internal section shows the teams that belong to the current project, and packages being shared within the project.

Note: If teams in the External section of the Project timeline appear in a ghosted format, this indicates that the team automations have been paused, or the teams have been deactivated or deleted in the source project.

Working with the Project timeline is the same when in a project with or without bridge. See Project Timeline for more information.

Packages

Packages are containers that allow you to bundle your team’s models, views, sheet sets, and supporting documents to share with other teams. Using the Project Timeline, teams can preview packages and decide when to consume the content into their design environment. By controlling the sharing in this way, you can help ensure that your work is prepared and ready for other teams.

Using packages in the context of Bridge means that this controlled sharing can be extended to cross-project scenarios. Team automations can be set up after bridging with a project, meaning that when a package is shared, as well as being copied to the shared > team folder in the current project, the contents are also copied to the equivalent folder, and the Project timeline, in the bridged project.

The processes of creating, sharing, and consuming packages is the same whether you are working in a bridged or standard environment. See the Packages topic for more information.

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