I have my workspaces stored on a network drive and MS_CELLLIST is pointing to find libraries in my company standards folder and WorkSet folder, but it's not looking at the "Cell" folder under the WorkSpace. I don't have many company specific standard cells that I want to see on all projects, but I do have many Client specific cell libraries which I intend to put into the WorkSet area so they are accessible whenever we are doing work for that client. I don't expect to need to put many things into the WorkSet folders as those would be job specific and most things would be covered by what is in the WorkSpace area. My problem is MicroStation seems to be skipping over the WorkSpace "Cell" folders in the WorkSpaces I have setup with the default config settings. It seems like there is something missing to get MS_CELLLIST to look in that location that should be set by default. It is finding the DGNLIB folder under my WorkSet as it should though.
Here is a Config Explorer file of one of my configurations.
MicroStation CONNECT Edition-COT-Design-Zone 7054.zip
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for the BCF file.
Your WorkSpace CFG file COT-Design.cfg does not contain any variables that include locations in the WorkSpace Standards folders, although nor do our examples. You could add an MS_CELLLIST statement at the Organization or WorkSpace level to include the WorkSpace Cell folder.
The default definition of MS_CELLLIST is in msdirs.cfg:
MS_CELLLIST < $(_USTN_WORKSETSTANDARDS)cell/*.cel
so your Custom Configuration just needs to add a similar definition for the WorkSpace location. Quite a few other WorkSet resources are defined at system level by the default CFGs (which never need to be edited, any changes to default statements can be made in the Custom Configuration).
Similarly any other folders that you wish to populate (or add and populate) can be defined at Organization or WorkSpace level. Provided that WorkSets are consistent WorkSet locations can be defined once at Organization level rather than in each WorkSpace or WorkSet. As you are obviously already aware resources specific to a WorkSet are defined in the WorkSet.cfg.
Marc
Thanks. I sort of get what you're saying, but still don't fully understand where I should put that variable. I'm guessing I would put it in my Company Standards.cfg so it would take care of all WorkSpaces that I create. How are the dgnlib files that are under the WorkSpace location being found and not the Cells? Is that something that is defined by default CFG's? If so is there a reason the cell libraries weren't accounted for under the WorkSpace area by default? It seems that would be a normal place to put cell libraries that are supplied by clients. I'm just trying to understand how this is all intended to work as much as I can before I try to add too much custom stuff on top of it.
Okay I put a line in my Company Standards.cfg that says.
MS_CELLLIST < $(_USTN_WORKSPACESTANDARDS)cell/*.cel
That seems to have solved the issue. I hope that's how I should do it. It still seems like an oversight that this was left out by default though.