Connect / networked location of Datasets

Hi Andreas,

Create a network configuration as described in the wikis/blogs linked in your other thread (preferably for initial testing create it locally as mentioned in my post to that thread)
[Replace the ... in the paths below with your own path.]

Copy the dataset to the network , e.g.: ...\CONFIGURATIONS\CE\Datasets

In the network WorkSpaces folder: e.g.: ...\CONFIGURATIONS\CE\WorkSpaces create a folder called NM_Projects (just for testing)

In this folder create new file NM_Projects.cfg, paste the following lines into that file:

_USTN_WORKSETROOT              = .../ProjectData/$(_USTN_WORKSPACENAME)/$(_USTN_WORKSETNAME)/
_USTN_WORKSETDGNWS         = $(_USTN_WORKSETROOT)Standards/$(_USTN_WORKSETNAME).DGNWS
TF_DATASETS = //hal/CONFIGURATIONS/CE/Datasets/

(The TF_DATASETS definition here will point to the network)

In ...\CONFIGURATIONS\CE\WorkSpaces\NM_Projects

a) create a folder called WorkSets

b) copy the folder and content from C:\ProgramData\Bentley\AECOsim CONNECT Edition\Configuration\WorkSpaces\AECOsimExamples\Standards

c) Copy file
"C:\ProgramData\Bentley\AECOsim CONNECT Edition\Configuration\WorkSpaces\AECOsimExamples\worksets\BuildingTemplate_NM.cfg"
into
...\CONFIGURATIONS\CE\WorkSpaces\NM_Projects\WorkSets
and rename to NM_Project_001.cfg. (this file does not need to be edited, it will find Dataset_NM)

In ...\ProjectData create a folder called NM_Projects

Copy the example template folder and contents (obviously):
C:\ProgramData\Bentley\AECOsim CONNECT Edition\Configuration\WorkSpaces\AECOsimExamples\worksets\BuildingTemplate_NM
into
...\ProjectData\NM_Projects\ and rename to NM_Project_001.

You should end up with this:

The only change needed on the c:\ drive is to SetupConfiguration.cfg as previously discussed.

Note that the DGNWS file is created in the ...\ProjectData\NM_Projects\NM_Project_001\Standards folder where it can be written to by users.

 ...\ProjectData can be on different drive/share, they are only in the same place for simplicity here.

Hope this helps to clarify things?

Hi Andreas,

Create a network configuration as described in the wikis/blogs linked in your other thread (preferably for initial testing create it locally as mentioned in my post to that thread)
[Replace the ... in the paths below with your own path.]

Copy the dataset to the network , e.g.: ...\CONFIGURATIONS\CE\Datasets

In the network WorkSpaces folder: e.g.: ...\CONFIGURATIONS\CE\WorkSpaces create a folder called NM_Projects (just for testing)

In this folder create new file NM_Projects.cfg, paste the following lines into that file:

_USTN_WORKSETROOT              = .../ProjectData/$(_USTN_WORKSPACENAME)/$(_USTN_WORKSETNAME)/
_USTN_WORKSETDGNWS         = $(_USTN_WORKSETROOT)Standards/$(_USTN_WORKSETNAME).DGNWS
TF_DATASETS = //hal/CONFIGURATIONS/CE/Datasets/

(The TF_DATASETS definition here will point to the network)

In ...\CONFIGURATIONS\CE\WorkSpaces\NM_Projects

a) create a folder called WorkSets

b) copy the folder and content from C:\ProgramData\Bentley\AECOsim CONNECT Edition\Configuration\WorkSpaces\AECOsimExamples\Standards

c) Copy file
"C:\ProgramData\Bentley\AECOsim CONNECT Edition\Configuration\WorkSpaces\AECOsimExamples\worksets\BuildingTemplate_NM.cfg"
into
...\CONFIGURATIONS\CE\WorkSpaces\NM_Projects\WorkSets
and rename to NM_Project_001.cfg. (this file does not need to be edited, it will find Dataset_NM)

In ...\ProjectData create a folder called NM_Projects

Copy the example template folder and contents (obviously):
C:\ProgramData\Bentley\AECOsim CONNECT Edition\Configuration\WorkSpaces\AECOsimExamples\worksets\BuildingTemplate_NM
into
...\ProjectData\NM_Projects\ and rename to NM_Project_001.

You should end up with this:

The only change needed on the c:\ drive is to SetupConfiguration.cfg as previously discussed.

Note that the DGNWS file is created in the ...\ProjectData\NM_Projects\NM_Project_001\Standards folder where it can be written to by users.

 ...\ProjectData can be on different drive/share, they are only in the same place for simplicity here.

Hope this helps to clarify things?

Andreas, maybe a little bit simpler. I found the same issues when configuring connect for first time. eventually settled on the following lines in my organization standards.cfg. What I found though was that the way default datasets are defined caused a bit of issue. 

Default or localized, workspace and workset. Because of this  I had to define my company standards dataset as the workspace BB_DATASET_WORKSPACE_FILTER. 

%ifdef BB_DISCIPLINE

TF_DATASETS = $(_USTN_CONFIGURATION)/Datasets/
TF_DATASETNAME = Dataset_UK
%if exists ($(TFDIR)Dataset.cfg)
% include $(TFDIR)Dataset.cfg
%endif

ORG_DATASETNAME = LDS
ORG_DATASET = $(TF_DATASETS)DatasetExtensions/$(ORG_DATASETNAME)/
BB_DATASET_WORKSPACE_FILTER = $(ORG_DATASET)
%if exists ($(ORG_DATASET)LDS_Dataset.cfg)
% include $(ORG_DATASET)LDS_Dataset.cfg
%endif

DG_CATALOGS_WORKSPACE = $(ORG_DATASET)/DataGroupCatalogs/
DG_SYSTEMS_WORKSPACE = $(ORG_DATASET)/DataGroupSystem/

%endif

Initially I defined the workset dataset here also (like i did in v8i) but this caused a few problems, so moved the below to workset.cfg

#WORKSET_DATASETNAME = $(WORKSET_NUM)_Dataset
#WORKSET_DATASET = $(_USTN_WORKSETROOT)/BIM/$(WORKSET_DATASETNAME)/
#BB_DATASET_WORKSET_FILTER = $(WORKSET_DATASET)/

Thanks for the input.

As I have said, I now have managed to have TF_DATASETS configured correctly, and it more or less does what I want.

A question which has come up now is, that I don't know what the difference between files in the \DATASETS and the  Workspace\[Workspace]\Standards folder is.

Probably the first one is for all workspaces, the second one just for a specific one?

But then I can't see how they are used, e.g. DG_CATALOGS_WORKSPACE points to just the workspace folder.