Changes to ProjectWise Workflow Rules Engine (WRE) in 2023


Improved rule validation

Improved configuration validation. WRE configuration refers to ProjectWise Workflows and States. Previous ProjectWise versions allowed workflow and state names that did not exist in the datasource.

ProjectWise 23 introduces a validation that requires Workflows and States used in configuration to exist in datasource.  Configurations not meeting this requirement will be rejected when uploading rule from Excel spreadsheet or during database conversion to version 23.

Client-side execution deprecation

Rule execution on client side including super user use, will be deprecated in near future for improved security. All cloud-first ProjectWise users should reconfigure WRE workflows to use server side execution now, because this option will be automatically turned off with ProjectWise server updates.

Please note that server-side execution has these limitations: