• Re: Grid Property Values

    Adam, In the delivered geo_example_designer workspace and provided geo_example.xml schema, take a look at the Count1Xml business property of the TelcoCable feature class which uses a Grid along with a few ComboBox properties.

  • Re: Bentley Geospatial Administrator - Auto-Calculate X and Y Coordinates

    Nick, Without a bit of custom programming, there is no automatic way to update the business properties which represent the coordinates. You can use the FENCE FEATURE RESET ALL keyin or icon command to update the values for all feature instances within…

  • Can XFM point-text features handle subscripts, fractions?

    This might be a shot in the dark. Is it possible to symbolize XFM point-text features that contain subscripts and fractions? See for example:

  • PlotScale - DrawingScale - AnnotationScale

    I am a bit confused about the different named scaling options In GSA under symbology I have the option "ApplyDrawingScale" in the help file the Description is "If checked, the current drawing scale will be applied to text size, cell size and line style…

  • Re: Changing Order of Features in Command Manager?

    Alan, Unfortunately there is no automatic way to sort "Command Manager" or "Forms" entries at this time. A few workarounds come to mind though which are: Manual editing of the MainMenu.xml metadata file which contains the domain list used…

  • Mystery about where the editbox gets the length of property fields?

    Hi I am deeply mystified!! Where does the Bentley map get the length of the property field from? I cannot find any other information about property string length than "#chars" and "List Width" in GSA. In the Xml file these are found in <dataSpec numChars…

  • Where to find some documentation about creating toolboxes from GSA

    Hi By looking at the geo_example I can see that it is possible to create toolframes and toolsboxes in GeoSpatial Administartor. However I can not find anything on the help file and even googling for information about this topic doesnot give many…

  • Re: Annotation do not have the color specifed in GSA

    Erik, Using the provided schema and design file, I'm not seeing the described behavior but rather the following: Are you certain the workspace has been (re)exported and Bentley Map session restarted after any schema and/or symbology changes?

  • “Point-cell” type feature of which the size is based on a data table field - Bentley Map V8i-S3 & Bentley Geospatial 08.11.09.107

    I want to create a feature of which the geometry type is “Point-cell”. The size of cell (scale) will be determine by a numeric value(field) in the data table. In the Symbology dialog box the size can be controlled by entering a numeric value for…

  • Re: system.math.round doesn't work on PBA

    ...in your schema, just replace the system.math.round() function references with the equivalent xfm.round() function as necessary. Regards, Jeff Bielefeld [Bentley]

  • Re: Auto-Calculation of areas

    Adrian, What version of Bentley PowerMap are you using? Using Bentley PowerMap V8 i 08.11.05.18 I was able to load and run the areas1.xml schema you had attached to your post w/o any errors. Regards, Jeff Bielefeld [Bentley]

  • Re: How can I set Origin Z to PBA Replacement Text entry ??

    I see that PBA (Origin Z) is supported in Bentley Map but not available in the Geospatial Adminstrator user interface (existing CR 296636 for this issue). As a workaround, you can manually edit your schema file to add this PBA type(backup the file first…

  • Re: GSA Performance with Oracle

    Greetings Ian, What version of Bentley Map are you running? Does the user/admin performing feature discovery have DBA privileges in the database? What feature discovery options are selected?

  • Re: How to reload the project while in bentley map

    ...the unsupported keyin ggcaches reload all override is provided for development purposes only and should never be used during production workflows. As you note, during schema development using the Bentley Geospatial Administrator it is often quite useful…

  • Re: problem with criteria

    Gabriel, Please try adding brackets around the feature class name and operations property as follows: COMPARE("[road_Collection]/[what_to_do]", "upgrade", "")

  • Re: Auto-Calculation of areas

    Hi, I'm using PowerMap v8i and unfortunately I have problem with cexpresion and expressionEvaluator. When I use Your Area1.xml, instead of some value, I get "Expression handler error: -1". However I use expressionEvaluator e.g.: key = editing | Synch…

  • Re: No PBS on Cell Size ?

    Erik, In the forthcoming Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) release later this year, we've added a new event callback to the Bentley Map API that will allow you to implement custom code in which your application can set symbology settings using whatever…

  • XFM project examples required

    Is anyone prepared to share examples of XFM project files? I would appreciate being able to drill into Geospatial project files to see how they work. The geo_example provided does not cover the points I am interested in and the Help files can be a bit…

  • Re: Criteria name

    ...using "Named Criteria" in the "Bentley Geospatial Administrator" is currently the only way to have the "Map Manager" layer classes not display the underlying criteria expression. Regards, Jeff Bielefeld [Bentley]

  • Re: Re-Register Feature changes case on properties

    Krister, During the register feature process you may not be aware that you can select one or more feature class names or business property names and then right-click and choose to change the case as shown in the following: Does this capability…

  • Geospatial Administrator and Microsoft Visio

    Hello all, Those anyone knows if is possible to design an XFM schema using the UML language in MS Visio? Thanks all. Narcis

  • Re: Defining Annotation table for PBA

    Veeresh, First regarding the use of composite primary keys for annotation, you're correct that capability used to work. However when the ability to support arbitrary-depth features in Bentley Map was added for Oracle Spatial persistence, subfeatures…
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  • Re: Problem promoting multiple features

    Rob, You should be able to use the described RESET FEATURE technique with linear features (e.g. lines, linestrings, curvestrings etc...) as well, just as long as the line/linestring elements are created on the level which match that defined in…

  • Text Angle in Oracle Spatial

    Hi! How could I update the Text Angle value of the Oracle Spatial Point-text Feature after editing, similar to Line Feature to Lenght. I use Bentley Map 08.11.07.113 Thanks, László

  • Bentley Geospatial Administrator - Auto-Calculate X and Y Coordinates

    Hello, I'm setting up a geospatial schema (attached), for the first time, and I require a little help with using Auto-Calculate for the X and Y position of a point feature. http://communities.bentley.com/products/geospatial/desktop/w/geospatial_desktop__wiki…
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