Hello
I'm adjusting the ribbon in microstation connect and would like to make my own attributes and primary groups, and not use the preset ones. The problem then is the shortcuts. Because in preferences - position mapping I have attributes & primary positions as default; A & S, but when I make my own Attributes and primary group they are treated just like any other group. That means that the shortcuts gets kind of messed up when I have/dont have those groups in different tabs. I want my own to be treated just like the attributes or primary group should be, but customize it myself. Is there a way to do this?
Robert
The only way I think that it could be achieved is to edit the position mapped keys by deleting the keys associated to attributes & primary, and then moving those to the Task & Ribbon Section see below:
Once that is done you can pine your custom attributes the your current or all workflows.
Hi. That's how I have it today. But if I have a tab without the attribute or primary group, the the commands get messed up. I find it really hard the make a consistent way to work with shortcuts in Connect. I'm trying to mimic the main toolbar from v8i and have the groups like select, manipulate, modify, measure etc. to always be the same shortcut, but it seems Bentley don't want us the work that way anymore, but rather use the mouse for everything.
Saw you answered my ohter question here: Modification tab, and that's another example of where you're not able to make sure the same shortcut always executes the same command. And it also makes my A the shortcut for select all of a sudden, if I follow your recommendation above.
To get the shortcuts to the Main toolbar as they were available out of the box you have to use the Task Navigation workflow.
However if you pin the Main group to all workflows the shortcuts will be available in any of your custom workflows. See below:
Note that the Main group is pinned.
To keep the "S" key associate to the primary tools try the following:
If you are having issues with the Position mapped keys please make sure that the dialog with focus is in the "Home" position
Unknown said:To get the shortcuts to the Main toolbar as they were available out of the box you have to use the Task Navigation workflow.
We were actually goning to use that until we heard at the Bentley user group-conference here in Stockholm that the task navigation workflow will disappear in a soon upcoming update.
Unknown said:However if you pin the Main group to all workflows the shortcuts will be available in any of your custom workflows. See below:
I can't pin it, don't know what I'm doing wrong, but we need the shortcuts (or what we should call it) for them anyway, so that won't be a solution anyway.
Unknown said:To keep the "S" key associate to the primary tools try the following:
do you mean put a / before it? It seems I can't do that because it's not a standard key on my keyboard, (it's shift + 7). English keyboards has it as a standard key, right?
Do you also know why we can't use numbers at first level for our shortcuts? See mine and Jan's discussion further down? That would make all this a none problem, at least for me.
Unknown said:Do you also know why we can't use numbers at first level for our shortcuts?
Post the new question! This is very different topic from the original one and moreover it's lost inside lengthy discussion, so nobody will realize you are asking for help with different issue.
Regards,
Jan
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Unknown said:I can't pin it, don't know what I'm doing wrong, but we need the shortcuts (or what we should call it) for them anyway, so that won't be a solution anyway.
To pin the Main group do the following:
1. swtich to the task navigation workflow
2. right click on any element within the Main group
3. a menu should pop up go to pin/unpin group --> pin to all workflows
Unknown said:do you mean put a / before it? It seems I can't do that because it's not a standard key on my keyboard, (it's shift + 7). English keyboards has it as a standard key, right?
Yes I used the "/" character just as a place holder, I just picked a key that most likely would not be used.