Using Asta Vision Live to enable users to collaborate on projects

You can use Asta Vision Live to enable users to collaborate on projects - to work together on a project's programmes at the same time in Asta Powerproject.

If your organisation uses Asta Vision Live, users are able to collaborate on a set number of programmes at any one time. As well as being able to check out programmes in Asta Powerproject to work on them individually, users are able to start 'collaboration sessions' - sessions that other users can then join, with the users able to edit the same programme at the same time. A collaboration session lasts until the user that started the session checks in or submits the programme - or cancels the check out - in Asta Powerproject.

Enabling collaboration on a project does not prevent users from being able to check out the project's programmes individually; users can choose whether to check out a programme to work on it themselves, or start a collaboration session to work on it with others.

To enable users to collaborate on a project's programmes, a user whose role is assigned to the 'Edit Project Collaboration Settings' security rule must edit the project and select the Collaboration enabled check box on the Project page.

You can use the Collaborate page to identify the projects that have collaboration enabled and to view the number of collaboration sessions that are currently ongoing in Asta Powerproject. This can be useful if you have reached your limit of concurrent collaboration sessions, as you can identify programmes that are currently under collaboration and take steps to end an existing collaboration session in order to start a collaboration session on a different programme.

Refer to the Asta Powerproject Help for details of how to collaborate on programmes in Asta Powerproject.

Collaboration is available only if you use Asta Vision Live, a version of Asta Vision that enables users to collaborate on programmes in real time. Please contact Elecosoft to find out more.