[CE] Connect Workspaces vs V8i Workspaces - Is there Documentation Available to Explain Equivalency and Additions?

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While we are still working in V8i, we are also watching Connect Edition developments as we know we will eventually wind up there. 
 What I am looking for a some type of explanations and guidance on Connect Edition Workspaces and what is new, what has been migrated. I'm pretty comfortable in my V8i Workspace and modifying them. But Connect seems to be a new beast, with new terminology and I was hoping that there is some guidance available, rather than having to brute force my way into Connect Workspaces.

Jan Šlegr · Accepted Answer

Hi Chuck, 
 caddcop said: But Connect seems to be a new beast 
 you are right that CONNECT Edition workspace is the new beast and in my opinion it's a right approach. I agree with John the new system allows better organization and related organization concept are well designed. My feeling is that many confusion expressed in MicroStation and Administration forums come from incorrect thinking "CE workspace is just V8i workspace with different naming". It's valid for many features, but not for all, so it can looks like it does not work fine. 
 caddcop said: What I am looking for a some type of explanations and guidance on Connect Edition Workspaces 
 Contrary to old tmies, now plenty of CE features are quite well described and explained (or at least better than for V8i). In addition to webinar linked by John I recommend also to ready: 
 
 Configuration Concepts in MicroStation help 
 MicroStation blog , especially Configuration Blog Series from Shaylesh Lunawat 
 
 With regards, 
 Jan

Marc Thomas · Answer

Shaylesh has included a table of contents for configuration blogs which helps with navigation. 
 Some fundamental points are: 
 
 Redirection to the network Custom Configuration is made by ConfigurationSetup.cfg on each machine which is easiest to deploy using a installation deployment image. That is the only file that has to change on each machine. 
 Your Custom Configuration contains one Organization. (This was the V8i WorkSpace, we have reused this word...) 
 The Organization contains as many WorkSpaces as you require to accommodate departments, serial clients, joint ventures or whatever other admin/org divisions are appropriate. (In V8i this kind of division was commonly implemented via the UCF. The UCF contains very little in CE.) 
 Individual project's data are contained in the WorkSets within each WorkSpace. 
 
 Standards can be defined and stored at any of these three levels depending on the granularity/control/variation required. These choices may also be guided by archiving requirements as John has indicated. 
 The start from scratch approach has a lot to commend it, build the structure then pull resources from V8i into the appropriate places. Obviously that is a simplification, but it should filter out configuration "tricks" that were needed to work around V8i that are hopefully not relevant to CE?

John Frampton · Answer

Here is what I can share to help you get your head around how it maps to the old. I personally feel that CE is way better organized than the older structure but I am a little biased. 
 CE = v8 
 System is basically moved up into the application now and the tools were being written to work without any need of a workspace. Organization = Standards (organization is used by all users) Workspace = Project (specific to a client or discipline, controls available worksets) WorkSet is similar to user (This is a kind of situation as user is now specific to the individual, workset is selectable part like user in v8i and its own cfg but nothing to do with the actual user of the software) User is specific to the logged in user (setting are now stored at this level for the individual users, function keys, ui, shortcuts, etc, these are all controlled with seeds) 
 ORD adds another layer to this they call it ORG_Civil and the Workspace loads a named org_civil configuration. 
 Bentley has some wedinars on the subject. Here is a link for one coming up. 
 Upgrading to MicroStation CONNECT Edition: Part 4 &ndash; Projects to WorkSets

[CE] Connect Workspaces vs V8i Workspaces - Is there Documentation Available to Explain Equivalency and Additions?

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