RE: OpenRoads Designer Installed via Layout Installing To Different Folders

Marc Thomas — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:48:32 GMT

While writing the suggestions below I realized that the reason for the varying installation paths is that early on in the CONNECT Edition releases, in some cases we installed applications to folders labelled with the version number.

We subsequently standardized the default installation folder names to support the application update services, in the case of OpenRoads to the third variation: C:\ProgramData\Bentley\OpenRoads Designer CE.

I suggest that you remove OpenRoads from the two machines that use the numbered folders, delete any leftover folders then reinstall manually, checking that the installation path is the current default (ending in CE).

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To check that the layout has the correct values refer to the following notes:

When you use the /layout switch to create a Deployment Image the choices that you make in the dialogs during the layout process are recorded in the layout file.

This file will be named with a random string, e.g. {67abf9da-a8a4-4f01-907b-3270d6fca3e9}.lyt

Please take a look at the .lyt file in your layout folder with a text editor (Notepad++ is a good free application for viewing xml and similar formats), the .lyt is an xml formatted file.

Find the line containing "SharedConfigurationDirectory", it will be towards the end of the file in the Feature section. The path that you entered will be stored here, e.g.:

If the path in the .lyt is correct, then take a look at "C:\ProgramData\Bentley\OpenRail Designer xxxxx\Configuration\ConfigurationSetup.cfg", find out if the path stated on line 21 matches the one in your .lyt, e.g.:

_USTN_CUSTOM_CONFIGURATION=//SERVER/CONFIGURATIONS/CE/

Normally this file should not be edited, but in this case if the wrong path has been written (somehow...) you can correct it.

Note that line 26 of this file will either read:

_USTN_CONFIGURATION = $(_USTN_CUSTOM_CONFIGURATION)

_USTN_CONFIGURATION = <your path>

If it reads <your path> that statement will also need to be corrected.

(Doing that is a bit more surgical than just uninstalling, deleting any remaining files then reinstalling.)