MicroStation Connect - Tags Sets going away

Don,

I did find the "Block Attributes as Tags" setting and that now allows me to edit the AutoCAD attributes, which were standard text before.  In the help file for MicroStation Connect (see attachment) it states that Tags are going away.

Hi Mike,

Unknown said:

In the help file for MicroStation Connect (see attachment) it states that Tags are going away.

In my opinion there is no contradiction between what Don wrote and what is mentioned in MicroStation help file. The documentation tells the deprecated features will be removed in some (not specified) future version. If Don wrote they will become available as long as current DGN format will be used, together it means if there will be a version of MicroStation in future, that will bring and require new DGN format, Tags and Tag Sets will be removed at this time.

Deprecated means nothing else than recommendation to don't use a particular feature as (usually) better replacement is available and the old feature will be removed after some period. Specifically in relation to MicroStation and other Bentley products the period is pretty long because of maintaining backward compatibility and smooth transition. E.g. MicroStation BASIC was marked as obsolete in MicroStation 8.0 and removed ... in MicroStation CONNECT Edition ... nearly 15 years later.

So I guess we will have enough time to migrate our projects from tags ;-)

With regards,

  Jan

Hi Mike,

Unknown said:

In the help file for MicroStation Connect (see attachment) it states that Tags are going away.

In my opinion there is no contradiction between what Don wrote and what is mentioned in MicroStation help file. The documentation tells the deprecated features will be removed in some (not specified) future version. If Don wrote they will become available as long as current DGN format will be used, together it means if there will be a version of MicroStation in future, that will bring and require new DGN format, Tags and Tag Sets will be removed at this time.

Deprecated means nothing else than recommendation to don't use a particular feature as (usually) better replacement is available and the old feature will be removed after some period. Specifically in relation to MicroStation and other Bentley products the period is pretty long because of maintaining backward compatibility and smooth transition. E.g. MicroStation BASIC was marked as obsolete in MicroStation 8.0 and removed ... in MicroStation CONNECT Edition ... nearly 15 years later.

So I guess we will have enough time to migrate our projects from tags ;-)

With regards,

  Jan