Microstation Workspace Configuration: Define $ Operator

RE: Microstation Workspace Configuration: Define $ Operator

Colin Mucci — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:51:26 GMT

Perfect, thanks for pointing that out. A workspace novice like myself will take all the help I can get haha thanks again

RE: Microstation Workspace Configuration: Define $ Operator

Kevin van Haaren — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:38:57 GMT

Yeah, The configuration section of the documents needs some work. Feels like everything is spread over many different pages and with minimal explanations.

One additional note to Bear's example, the variables used can be defined in other configuration files, or they can be environment variables. So $(Username) is substituting in the name of the logged in user and getting that value from the OS environment variables.

RE: Microstation Workspace Configuration: Define $ Operator

Colin Mucci — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:36:06 GMT

Thank you both for the quick responses and clarifications

Kevin - I saw that page but was looking for an explicit definition of the $ character itself. It makes sense now and I appreciate you elaborating on what's noted on the Help page

RE: Microstation Workspace Configuration: Define $ Operator

Kevin van Haaren — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 11:54:41 GMT

It's in the docs under Configuration Syntax

https://docs.bentley.com/LiveContent/web/MicroStation%20Help-v17/en/GUID-C59A1F56-F723-853A-0469-83F5859385EC.html

It indicates variable substitution. The value of the variable named in the parentheses or braces that follows the $ replaces the whole $(variable) expression.

RE: Microstation Workspace Configuration: Define $ Operator

Bear — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 01:17:31 GMT

It's used to call up set config variables.

As an example, we have our user area locally set to c:\Apps\User\$(username)

HTH.