Hi,
I have a cell with attached tags. If I place the cell using MicroStation tool, the cell is placed including tags and they can be edited later. But if the same cell is defined in XFM project as point-cell feature, during the placement the tags seem to be removed (the cell is reported as without tags) and no tag set definition is copied into the design file, but later I ocasionally experienced strange behaviour including Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 2) crash when I work with this cell later.
Is it known bug / feature / limitation?
Is there any workaround or other solution (including own code) to use cells with tags in XFM project?
Explanation why I have to use tags: Part of design file content is exported to DWG format and cells with tags are converted to block with attributes, which are required to be used.
With regards,
Jan
Hi Jan!
This issue has been already reported inour internal systems; as reference it is in TR #321216. No time table has been definingyet.
On the BE Communities, I also found two differentpost about Tag and Point-Cell. The second post bring a VBA solution aboutintegration of tag in XFM.
Save as dwg and tags
communities.bentley.com/.../219541.aspx
TAG to XFM Feature prop. and SHP Export with attributes
communities.bentley.com/.../167810.aspx
HTH,
Hi Sébastien,
thanks for your fast response, it's good to know it's a bug, so there is no reason to try to solve it using configuration.
Thanks for your links, but unfortunately in this project the tags live independently outside XFM properties.
I did several tests in VBA and it seems if a cell with tag is placed using MicroStation tool and is converted to native feature using FeatureMgr.CreateFeature later, tags are maintained corectly. And because the discussed features will be created mainly as import from SHP, I am thinkg to use GeoDataInterchangeAPI as a workaround of this bug.
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Hi!
I have good news: I talked with product management and the trouble report has just been put in the next Map Ss4 backlog. So, we can expect a fix made for that in next generation of Map.
Thanks for the information!
Despite of it's not the solution for my current project, cells with tags appear quite often in design files, so I am happy there is the roadmap for the fix.