I have been playing with a number of the DGNLIB variables in an attempt to reduce the number of files that appear in the File menu of the Customize dialog box. When you want to teach a user how to open their DGNLIB from their Interface settings, it is undesirable to have any System, Application and Site DGNLIB's appear in that menu. I will refer to this as User Too Much Information or UTMI.
I have found very little explanation of some of the DGNLIB variables that seem to offer promise in these efforts.
Additionally, some of the vertical products we use (InRoads) add their DGNLIB's to this menu's list of files. I have also been testing features of OpenRoads Designer, the Connect Version of Open Roads and its workspace creation and modifications and following the example of the Learn Center sessions continues to result in this sort of UTMI. And as more elements get added to DGNLIB's this only gets worse.
I've noticed this, too. Our users aren't all that interested in Customizing anything at this point, but sooner or later we're going to have someone on board who is. There's some chance that our system could use some cleaning and streamlining, but it appears that the way ahead adds more DGNLIBs to our system, no matter what. Even if our DGNLIBs are locked down, read only, I don't want to see them showing up in the File menu of the Customize dialog. From a CAD management POV, most users don't even need to know those files exist.
MaryB
Power GeoPak 08.11.09.918Power InRoads 08.11.09.918OpenRoads Designer 2021 R2
In CONNECT Edition I think we expose fewer of the system DGNLIBs, currently the libraries exposed in the dialog for users to copy and customize are also listed in the file menu.
However I've filed Enhancement 787938 'Add a control to hide all DGNLIBs other than Personal from the Customize dialog File menu' to request this.
Marc
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