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Setup your 30-day trial licenses for Issue Management within BIMcollab

Set up and explore a trial for Issue Management

This article focuses on setting up the trial for BIMcollab Common Data Environment (CDE).

Set up a trial for the BIMcollab CDE

In this article, you will learn how to activate, install, and use a free 30-day BIMcollab Zoom Trial license.

Setting up your BIMcollab Zoom trial

Trials

Learn how to get started with BIMcollab and explore its core modules and key features

Get started with BIMcollab

Quickly learn more about your online BIMcollab project's User interface

Introduction Tour: Exploring the BIMcollab platform

Summary of the main features offered by each BIMcollab module

BIMcollab Features Overview

Give BIMcollab a try and access the example project to see how you can add or edit issues

Explore the example project

What are the system requirements for the web, desktop and plugin solutions of BIMcollab

System requirements BIMcollab

Get Started

Administration 

Get an overview of all space settings available for BIMcollab Administrators

Space Settings

Learn how to invite new users into your BIMcollab space

How to add new users

Learn how to assign and monitor BIMcollab Zoom licenses as an administrator.

How to manage BIMcollab Zoom licenses

Discover how to review and restore previously deleted users in your BIMcollab space.

How to restore deleted users

Go through the steps to remove users from your BIMcollab Space.

How to delete users

As an administrator, learn how to set up SSO in your BIMcollab space.

Enable Single Sign-On (SSO)

Learn how to access and use the Space administration dashboard to manage users, projects, licenses, and subscriptions

How to manage a BIMcollab space

Discover an agile method to import multiple users into your BIMcollab space.

Import users into BIMcollab from a CSV file

Discover how to assign and manage all types of BIMcollab licenses

How to assign BIMcollab licenses

Discover how to overcome limitations while importing a new users into BIMcollab with special characters in their names.

How to Import user names that contain special characters

Discover how administrators can use key metrics from the statistics page to monitor space-wide performance and engagement.

Explore the Statistics tab

Phase Team user roles

Learn about combining phase team user roles and how it affects permissions and feature availability for users.

Phase team users with multiple user roles

Export users and access logs

Divisions and Departments

How to create, manage and use companies in BIMcollab.

Create and use companies in BIMcollab

Administrator

Admins can change their subscription anytime.

Change your subscription

How to update payment methods for BIMcollab subscriptions.

Change your payment method

How space admins can cancel a BIMcollab license subscription.

Cancel a BIMcollab subscription

Subscription

Project management 

To create a new project, click on the button 'New project' in the upper right corner of the 'My Projects' page.

Create a new project

Use the setup of your current project as a template to create a new project in BIMcollab.

Use a project as a template

How to set up a new template to save specific project settings for new BIMcollab projects.

Create a new template project

Set up a project

Learn how to delete a project in BIMcollab so it does not longer show up on your dashboard. Or restore it if you made a mistake.

How to delete a project

In this article you will read how to enable some advance setting for issue management like the approval workflow, limit visibility and more.

Enable advanced settings for issue management

BIMcollab allows you to make fields in the issues mandatory, ensuring that team members enter a valid value when creating new issues.

Make issue fields mandatory

BIMcollab allows you to define custom fields which can be used to add additional information to the issues in a project.

Setup Custom issue fields

If necessary, a Project leader can choose to hide a project from the administrators of the space.

Hide a project from an administrator

How to setup users groups that can be used to manage the visibility of your issues in BIMcollab.

User groups and issue visibility

After you have created a new project you can now change the project’s properties so that it meets your requirements.

Define project properties

Projects can be migrated from one BIMcollab space to another BIMcollab space.

Migrate projects to another space

Keep track of BIM project progress and Issue Management

Monitor Issues in graphs

The best way to create a backup is to generate a report with all the issues, including history, into a PDF, XLSX, CVS, or BCF file.

Use reports to create a backup of your issues

Project Settings 

This article describes how to add team members to projects in a BIMcollab space.

Add and invite team members to a BIMcollab project

Users are notified by email about the report of activities for issue management assigned to them in a time period.

How to set my email notification frequency

The BIMcollab Zoom edit rights determine whether a team member can create, edit, and share the BIM requirements

BIMcollab Zoom edit rights

When team members, milestones, or other values are deleted from a BIMcollab project, they can easily be restored.

Restore deleted team members, milestones, or other values

If you want to reserve the option to close issues for your BIM managers only, you can set this up in the settings of your BIMcollab project.

Limit team members from closing issues

This articles gives more insight in the different roles that are available in the BIMcollab environment.

Roles within the BIMcollab environment

In this article we offer two ways in which you can limit to whom a team member can assign issues to in a project

Limit assignment of issues in a project

How to limit a team member from editing issues in a BIMcollab project.

Limit team members from editing issues

A project leader can check the ‘Assignable’ option for each team member individually.

Limit team members from being assigned to issues

A project leader can check the option to allow import of BCF files for each team member individually.

Limit team members from importing BCF files

In BIMcollab, the ability to upload or modify files in the WebViewer is managed through Project team member roles.

Allow or limit team members to upload and modify files in the WebViewer

Manage team members

What is a BIMcollab ID, how it differs from a Space account, and how to use it for accessing BIMcollab tools, trials, and support.

My BIMcollab ID

Explore the details of your BIMcollab Space account and learn how to make changes as an Administrator

BIMcollab Space account

Set your language of your BIMcollab account

2FA adds extra security with a password plus a code from an authentication app. Enable it in your account settings.

Two-factor authentication

Learn why special characters in user names may appear incorrectly after importing users into BIMcollab and how to solve it

Why does my name contain question marks in BIMcollab?

This article outlines the mandatory BIMcollab password criteria

Password requirements

My account

Overview of BIMcollab’s hosting types and the phase-out of On-premise support.

On-premise policy BIMcollab

Steps to prepare, install and configure a BIMcollab On-premise space, including secure setup and optional disconnection.

On-premise BIMcollab space - Delivery procedure

On-premise BIMcollab space - Preparation of a Microsoft Windows server

On-premise BIMcollab spaces FAQ

Use KEY files to activate BIMcollab software with a closed On-premise BIMcollab space

On-premise

Downloads and release notes

Download BIMcollab Zoom, the BCF Managers and other integrations.

Download center

Download BIMcollab Zoom

Download the BIMcollab BCF Managers for your BIM application.

Download BIMcollab BCF Managers

Download and install older versions of all BIMcollab BCF Managers

Downloads - Archive

Download various resources and templates to help you get started with BIMcollab.

Example projects and templates

Downloads

Find an overview of the new features and improvements of BIMcollab Twin, Nexus, Zoom and the BCF Managers made in 2024 and 2025

Release notes

Find an overview of the new features and improvements of the BIMcollab Ecosystem that were released in 2023 or earlier.

Archive - Release history Nexus, BCF Managers, Zoom

This article contains the older release notes of BIMcollab Twin.

Archive - Release history BIMcollab Twin

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