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Determining APPLICATION with variable

Rabindra Adhikari
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Hi,

I am trying to route the dataset based on discipline and I would like to ask you if you know of any variable that uniquely defines which application is running on top of MicroStation. I mean such as Bentley Architecture, Bentley Structure, Mechanical or something else.

Can we even make an algorithm which determines the Discipline and route us to the corresponding datasets without explicitly writing the variable in each application's config files? Any help on this would be of great help to me.

Sincerely,

Rabi

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    For mechanical, try:    %if exists($(HVACDIR_PROGRAM))

    HVACDIR_PROGRAM only loads with BBMS (by default, unless you force it to load in your config)

    For electrical, try:        %if exists($(BBES_DATASETNAME))

    BBES_DATASETNAME only loads with BBES (by default, unless you force it to load in your config)

    for Structural, try:   %if exists $(STF_DATASETNAME)

    STF_DATASETNAME only loads with Bentley Structural (by default, unless you force it to load in your config)

    For Architecture, try: %if exists $(ATFDIR_MDLAPPS)

    ATFDIR_MDLAPPS only loads with Bentley Architecture

     

    I've done this for our office, and we did similar stuff at previous firms (for GEOPAK, InRoads, GeoGraphics, TranSoft, Axiom, etc.)

    You may also try %if defined....

    Plus, this will probably only work if you are running each app individually...if you are running the Suite (all together), I don't think this would work.

    HTH,

    Shawn

    Thanks,

    Shawn

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    Personally, I think the %if defined option is idea. In our build I use a few of these to open up and add menus and so on depending on the app. A good example is Descartes. MS_DECSARTES is always defined if Descartes is installed on a users machine. So in our configs I use: '%if defined (MS_DESCARTES) \ %include $(HA_CADSITE)descartes/dcartes_2004.cfg \%endif'. This sets off a series of additions that then become available to people with Descartes on their machine. Pretty good stuff. (sorry about the syntax, still having issues with Chrome). Other applications have their own defined configs, BS sets STF_DATASETNAME as Shawn has posted so you could set up a line to do the same thing.



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  • Offline in reply to Shawn Foster
    Personally, I think the %if defined option is idea. In our build I use a few of these to open up and add menus and so on depending on the app. A good example is Descartes. MS_DECSARTES is always defined if Descartes is installed on a users machine. So in our configs I use: '%if defined (MS_DESCARTES) \ %include $(HA_CADSITE)descartes/dcartes_2004.cfg \%endif'. This sets off a series of additions that then become available to people with Descartes on their machine. Pretty good stuff. (sorry about the syntax, still having issues with Chrome). Other applications have their own defined configs, BS sets STF_DATASETNAME as Shawn has posted so you could set up a line to do the same thing.



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