ARCHIBUS Smart Client

ARCHIBUS Smart Client Overview

The ARCHIBUS Smart Client application enables your backoffice workstations inside the CRE/FM department to connect directly to the same application servers, database servers, and secured projects as ARCHIBUS Web Central. This integration lets you collaborate effectively through one shared operating picture of your entire enterprise's infrastructure.

The Smart Client applications can be run alongside the ARCHIBUS Client/Server application. Both applications run off of the same database and drawings, and share data, enabling you to deploy ARCHIBUS applications as you see fit, without any data loss or synchronization issues.

The Smart Client applications include:

Smart Client: This Windows-based application includes both enhanced grid views for bulk data updates and analysis, and Web views that can include enterprise graphics, drill-down selection lists, and smart search consoles. Web views are shown in an embedded browser window.
Web applications. For example, applications for the Asset Management and Space Planning &Management domains, are included on the Smart Client Process Navigator.
ARCHIBUS Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD or the DWG Editor and the Extension for Revit: These applications provide features for manipulating CAD data and Building Information Models using a streamlined Ribbon based on the Microsoft® Office's Fluent™ user interface.

Smart Client

The Smart Client provides tools for working with your data in grids, while also providing access to Web applications.

Using the Smart Client, you can:

Use CAD processes to develop your inventory. The Smart Client Process Navigator includes drawing tasks for CAD Specialists. For Help about the CAD tasks see Getting Started with the Drawing Tools in the Smart Client User's Guide.
Perform bulk data updates: The grid views accessed from the Smart Client include interactive tools to bulk edit your data, such as the ability to replace an entire column with a value or an SQL expression, or to paste a row of copied data into multiple rows. See Copying and Pasting Grid Data, and Replacing Column Values.
Review and analyze data using interactive features, such as drag-and-drop field reordering, and easy sorting of your data. See Reordering and Hiding Columns and Customizing Views: Overview.
Filter inventory tables: Use an auto-Filter row, Filter icon menu options, or a Filter Editor. These features enable you to create simple or complex filters.See Customizing Views: Overview for details on each of these methods.
Compare and Analyze Data: Create one-dimensional or two-dimensional analysis views, or compare data, for example, by comparing the Smart Client production view of the data alongside the CAD view of the data. See Comparing Data and Creating Analysis Views
Transfer your Data: Use the Data Transfer feature to import and export your data between projects, or to import updates made in Excel into your production data. See Data Transfer: Overview.
Export Data to Excel. For smaller amounts of data that you want to work with in Excel, from some views, you can export the data in the view to Excel format (XLS) by clicking the XLS action button.See Exporting Data to Excel.
Generate Paginated Reports: From any grid view, you can generate a paginated report that is output to a Word DOCX file. See Working with Paginated Reports.
Launch Web Central from the Smart Client. See Launching Web Central.

Smart Client Extensions for AutoCAD and Revit and the DWG Editor

The Smart Client Extensions for AutoCAD and Revit provide a full set of CAD and Business Information Modeling features. The run-anywhere architecture enables you to readily connect your drawings and rich information models to your enterprise systems where the data is used. Key features, such as Reconcile and Publishing Enterprise graphics, are easier to use. See Getting Started with the Drawing Tools and Getting Started with the ARCHIBUS Extension for Revit in the Smart Client CAD User's Guide..

Web Central Applications

You now have the choice of running the Web Central applications in Web Central, or running them inside the Windows-based Smart Client where you load them in an embedded browser window; these Web applications are now run anywhere. Using the Smart Client platform, you can run these Web applications as a single-user, as part of a departmental workgroup, or as an enterprise Web deployment. Running these applications from the Smart Client enables you to bulk update data and create floor plan drawings, publish your work to the enterprise, and view the results on the Web all from within the same application.

You can also launch Web Central from the Smart Client by selecting the Web Central command from the Ribbon.