It has been two years since the original post and another six months since the last updated question. The "already in preparation" solution still has no answer and I don't think I've seen any related changes in BIMplus. Any news about this?
The BIMplus portal is managed on a subscription based licence on our office example. This licence enables 6 active users and additional 24 read only guests - the portal lists this user team based folder under a "Projects>" level, despite the ability to form different projects on a sub-level. This is very confusing.
The user management is limited to a very basic structure and needs more options, as these can vary in different office structures. User management is limited to the BIMplus subscription and is not possible on a project level, which is terrible.
I think the user level schema in a BIM enabled project should have the following structure:
1. BIM Manager - this should be one admin level user and it shouldn't be a part of each team, but has to either have access to each and every project or a template project structure. This admin also takes up one active user licence by default which limits the number of real active users to 5 on a standard licence. I would suggest this admin level to be on a dedicated bim manager level and not part of the licence stack. You should add one dedicated BIMplus management licence and leave the active user licences on that level (1+5 or maybe even 1+6).
2. User management should be, as said, possible at project level, not the general BIMplus subscription level.
3. A single team owner per project, but with the ability for one user to have different status on different projects.
4. There should be an additional user status for a BIM Coordinator. The BIM Coordinator should have edit access rights to all model parts.
5. The rest of the team members should on a model basis have edit access rights limited to their model content.
6. User level and their access rights management should be possible also on the documents folder level or even on a single document level. Right now a document can only have three status versions, for which I even can't understand what they are for - undefined, private and public.
7 The ISO 19650 series suggests that documents should have either "wip (work in progress)", "shared" or "published" status. I know I can share whatever document I upload, but I can't set such status to any document. I suggest the "private" shold be replaced with "wip", the "public" with "shared" and there should be another "published" status possible. The same should be enabled on whole folder basis.
8. Notification settings. This should be enabled on user based level and additional user type level. I think the BIMplus users would like to have control over who and when gets any status or content change notification.
I could continue with my suggestions for quite some time, but I would be very happy if we could get any feedback on already given wishes and further BIMplus development timeline.
Kind regards,
miha