Adding menu items to a ribbon

RE: Adding menu items to a ribbon

Ole Bro — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 08:29:10 GMT

Hi Jan,

I have found out why I couldn't get it to work.

I seems that the path to the dgnlib file where I want to store the Ribbon modification must be known to the system prior to creating the modification.

If this path isn't defined in MS_GUILIBLIST, the Microstation application (ORD or OBD) will not store the modifications made in the ribbon into the dgnlib file.

This was the reason why I couldn't get the modification stored in the dgnlib. The configuration must be made in reverse. First set up the variables and path for the file that will contain the modification, and then create it.

I have learned it the hard way, I must say.

Thanks everyone for your input.

Kind regards

Ole

RE: Adding menu items to a ribbon

Jan Šlegr — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 05:26:40 GMT

Hi Ole,

[quote userid="336218" url="~/products/administration/f/product-administration-forum/193359/adding-menu-items-to-a-ribbon"]Are there problems sharing a menu.dgnlib between different applications?[/quote]

As others mentioned already, there should be no problem ... of course as long as you stay at "MicroStation level" and you will not reference/customize e.g. ribbon tabs that exist in one product only.

[quote userid="336218" url="~/products/administration/f/product-administration-forum/193359/adding-menu-items-to-a-ribbon"]At the moment I can't get i to work so the question is[/quote]

Usually when it does not work, the problem is in workspace / configuration variable setting. I recommend to prepare the customization in plain MicroStation (if it's possible) to ensure nothing "product specific" is stored in dgnlib.

Also, be aware there is known defect in last ORD version (I am not sure whether it exists also in other civil products).

Regards,

Jan

RE: Adding menu items to a ribbon

Andrew Bell — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 03:50:01 GMT

You may find the following Blog series of interest for how you can share your standards across multiple Bentley applications.

https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/b/microstation_blog/posts/configuration-blog-series-working-with-standards-across-bentley-applications

RE: Adding menu items to a ribbon

MaryB — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:06:57 GMT

The other applications are not released in coordination with Connect, and they may not even be released with coordination to each other. This allows the possibility that the underlying core drafting program may be of a different version between packages. While that SHOULDN'T cause issues, it could contribute a little weirdness here or there.

RE: Adding menu items to a ribbon

Mark Marnell — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:45:36 GMT

There should be no problems with all applications reading the same dgnlib. Are you getting any messages which may hint at why it is not working?