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BIM 360 Project Creation, Template Duplicate Folders (Update Request)

Related to this 2-year-old question: BIM 360 Project creation template

Is there still not a way to replicate the Web UI option "Activate Document Management" -> "Apply a project template" that duplicates folder structure and role-based permissions?

Apply a project template

Specifically, I'm looking at requests to create a project

POST projects https://forge.autodesk.com/en/docs/bim360/v1/reference/http/projects-POST/ supplying a template_project_id value

and then activate with

POST users/import v2 https://forge.autodesk.com/en/docs/bim360/v1/reference/http/projects-project_id-users-import-POST/

I don't see any other template input in the API documentation besides the first request, and that does not appear to bring folder structure along.

Solution

  • unfortunately, what you found is correct currently, creating a project from a template with folder structure and role permission is not supported with current API, but you can achieve that by yourself as shown in a sample project at https://github.com/Autodesk-Forge/forge-bim360.project.setup.tool.

    This is actually a high requested wish HQ-5023 as you can see at https://fieldofviewblog.wordpress.com/2019/06/15/bim-360-acc-api-known-issues-and-wishes/#more-4424 , our engineering is actively working on that, we will update you at our blog if any progress.