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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp;amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/110981/connect---is-there-a-way-to-disable-workspaces-worksets</link><description>Is there a way to disable workspace/worksets so that users can&amp;#39;t create these? As we have our own way of creating projects we don&amp;#39;t really need the CONNECT versions.</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/672877?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2021 12:12:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:da890ae5-cc56-4606-82d6-32b0a2ff86e7</guid><dc:creator>Tim Hickman</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#39;t believe that this functionality was implemented properly. So technically it is shipped and works as designed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/672756?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:39:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:ccdcfe39-e9dc-4287-bff4-f63a5c4ce141</guid><dc:creator>MaryB</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;That link brings me to a page which says &amp;quot;&lt;span&gt;Legacy Ideas are now read-only and have been migrated to our new platform&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The actual idea can be found at &lt;a href="https://microstation.ideas.aha.io/ideas/MS-I-586"&gt;https://microstation.ideas.aha.io/ideas/MS-I-586&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, this Idea says it is already shipped. How is that so, if this is still an issue?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/672635?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:23:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b789571d-9e4c-4e7e-8e4d-b8e89547b64f</guid><dc:creator>Carl Myhill</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;This functionality has been requested&amp;nbsp;previously&amp;nbsp;and any one interest can&amp;nbsp;vote against this&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/products/microstation/i/user_interface/fix-the-ms_configurationopts-variable-to-work-within-the-correct-configuration-level?CommentId=73ee1dc1-0a2a-43dc-b92d-e4cc7b9f9c13"&gt;Idea&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;or logging a &lt;a href="/communities/other_communities/licensing_cloud_and_web_services/w/wiki/47172/how-to-create-a-new-service-request-online"&gt;Service Request&lt;/a&gt; and asking for it to be linked to PBI 710018&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/670685?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 15:12:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:1e09278a-b003-4c60-a1db-984ef2f27467</guid><dc:creator>Duncan Gammie</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Carl,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to disable workspace creation, and allow&amp;nbsp;workset creation only within select workspaces? It seems that the variable does not like being combined with &amp;gt; or &amp;lt; operators at different levels. Ideally I want to disable workspace creation at organization level, and allow or disallow workset creation at workspace level&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/450703?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:22:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:20f51855-a6a3-454c-bc78-5cf74cdafae7</guid><dc:creator>Carl Myhill</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;See new variable MS_CONFIGURATIONOPTS has been added to allow you to control the creation or selection of Workspaces and Worksets from the respective drop down lists in the Work page.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;MS_CONFIGURATIONOPTS = DisallowCreatingWorkSpace&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;MS_CONFIGURATIONOPTS = DisallowCreatingWorkSet&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;MS_CONFIGURATIONOPTS = DisallowCreatingWorkSpace, DisallowCreatingWorkSet&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See Update 8 - Help section &amp;#39;Uncategorized Configuration Variables&amp;#39; for more detail.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417607?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:26:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:9dc95f06-5cf7-43fa-8fea-34ba24af14c3</guid><dc:creator>Lorys</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;If you were to have &amp;nbsp;projectwise you could control everything &amp;nbsp;including &amp;nbsp;filenames, folder locations project and who can and cant see what?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Its very powerful and even controls revisions and work flows and tracks everything .. QA &amp;nbsp;auditors love it... oh and it also can work with autocad files...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Even has checking in and out drawings and ref files... but not cheap and steep learning curve for administrators...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;contact bentley &amp;nbsp;for a demo...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417467?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:47:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:75766fb0-4d0e-4b71-ab6f-fe3d5f288020</guid><dc:creator>Tim Hickman</dc:creator><description>this has been posted to the ideas page and an enhancement has been filed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/i/extensibility/add_a_variable_to_disable_the_option_to_create_a_workspace_or_workset"&gt;communities.bentley.com/.../add_a_variable_to_disable_the_option_to_create_a_workspace_or_workset&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/412577?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2017 12:49:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:9fe2127c-a353-4791-9669-92e688538631</guid><dc:creator>Ian Lapper</dc:creator><description>Hi jon&lt;br /&gt;
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True, but this only helps deploy the software not manage it within the software.  As per my images, we need to disable the option, thus users don&amp;#39;t go creating useless folders.&lt;br /&gt;
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Also we don&amp;#39;t all setup CONNECT/V8i the way that Bentley think we do, which means these tools create folders and worksets in the wrong locations.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ian&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/412431?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2017 08:08:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:493e576f-b533-4493-9bc5-1ad13557c317</guid><dc:creator>Jon Summers</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;StirlingH&amp;quot;]I assume this has not changed in the last 18 months?[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MicroStation CONNECT Update 4 introduced &lt;a href="https://docs.bentley.com/LiveContent/web/pub.xql?c=t&amp;amp;action=home&amp;amp;pub=MicroStation%20Help-v7&amp;amp;lang=en#docid=GUID-ACB46F04-4440-41CD-ADD7-0CF4D24B81B4&amp;amp;addHistory=true&amp;amp;query=&amp;amp;scope=&amp;amp;tid=&amp;amp;filename=GUID-ACB46F04-4440-41CD-ADD7-0CF4D24B81B4.xml&amp;amp;resource=&amp;amp;inner_id=&amp;amp;toc=false&amp;amp;eventType=lcContent.loadDocGUID-ACB46F04-4440-41CD-ADD7-0CF4D24B81B4" title="MicroStation CONNECT Update 4: new configuration options" target="_blank"&gt;new configuration options&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/412423?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2017 06:45:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:4aea70c6-d64e-4bf0-a847-c58f6f90947c</guid><dc:creator>StirlingH</dc:creator><description>I am to configuring Connect for a large organization.  The users have no need to create workspaces or worksets.  &lt;br /&gt;
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I assume this has not changed in the last 18 months?&lt;br /&gt;
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I agree there should be a configuration like in V8i. Why show the user an option they can&amp;#39;t use?&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/347860?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:26:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:3ee05a44-6a66-4ffd-8100-e61f7f9429b6</guid><dc:creator>Ian Lapper</dc:creator><description>True, but what we are asking is this to be added to the options, thus enhance MicroStation.  I will add is as an idea&lt;br /&gt;
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Thank you Tim, was a good debate.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ian Lapper&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/347834?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:51:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:85b728bf-e811-48b0-bb08-fb7d1d91d38e</guid><dc:creator>Tim Hickman</dc:creator><description>the point I am trying to make is that CONNECT has not introduced anything different than the previous versions. If a pick list is available to the user then the create option is available. The variable mentioned above, does not remove the create option for users, it removes the pick list all together, which is not what you asked. I just wanted to clarify this. So however you are keeping your users from creating these things in the previous versions would be the same way you would do it with CONNECT.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/347828?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:11:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:ee65e06c-c1f9-4a24-b800-c741492dc02d</guid><dc:creator>Tim Hickman</dc:creator><description>In V8i and previous you had these options as well. Create a user, project and interface...&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/347814?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:36:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:5a822cf7-4928-47c6-b9b2-1e754278b494</guid><dc:creator>Rod Wing</dc:creator><description>I agree with Ian. We need some way of restricting users from creating new Workspaces and Worksets from within MicroStation. A configuration variable to do that would be a good way to go.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/347807?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:55:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:cc290de6-e9ac-44d3-b66d-d69acacc2b8a</guid><dc:creator>Ian Lapper</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Tim.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We still need the pick lists, so users can swap workspaces/Worksets etc. &amp;nbsp;I just want to disable the &amp;#39;Create&amp;#39; options.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/CONNECT-Workspace.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="/resized-image/__size/940x0/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/CONNECT-Workspace.jpg" alt=" " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/347806?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:42:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:5d03c566-3792-45dd-8ec4-7b1eaf326e64</guid><dc:creator>Tim Hickman</dc:creator><description>So by taking the complete pick list away, this solved your problem ? then how did you get the users to have various projects or users loaded ? Commandline switches on a desktop icon ?&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/347805?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:29:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:f3dadd8e-7304-479f-b4d2-4b0767c9385b</guid><dc:creator>Ian Lapper</dc:creator><description>Hi Tim&lt;br /&gt;
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This comes from various clients.  Some client have IT security setup thus the users cannot write to these folders.  Other clients do not have such luxuries and have to reply on users not pressing the button.  With all the will in the world, there are users that love to press the buttons even though they are told not too.  It was indeed an issue in V8i as well and users would create random folders because it was available.&lt;br /&gt;
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Thus, being able to control this at a variable level helps the CAD managers.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ian Lapper&lt;br /&gt;
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PS.  I forgot I was logged in as Chris (i&amp;#39;m sure he wouldn&amp;#39;t mind)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/347803?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:15:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:1f5c9ef7-7c0a-4892-8645-18ee8967e97c</guid><dc:creator>Tim Hickman</dc:creator><description>I don&amp;#39;t understand what you are asking ? Outside of MicroStation would your users be able to browse to that folder and create files ?&lt;br /&gt;
I am guessing no as you have probably already set it up so that they only have &amp;quot;read&amp;quot; access to this folder. And if you are not currently relying on windows security, my guess is that your users could actually create this data in V8i - soooo not having the button would not actually stop them.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/347801?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:10:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:577cfd85-6c8a-4c70-943b-c0c37ee220d1</guid><dc:creator>Chris Baete</dc:creator><description>I would also like to have control over this option.  I do not want users being able to create Workspaces/Worksets.  Thus having a configuration variable to disable these options, is better than Windows security.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ian Lapper&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/338481?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2015 23:20:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:61aebafd-a548-4c55-b128-c639334fe925</guid><dc:creator>Andrew Bell</dc:creator><description>The configuration variable MS_WORKSPACEOPTS capabilities have now been removed due to the changes on the Start Page (File Open) operations. A suggestion has been made that you could ensure the users permissions are defined so that they are not allowed to create Workspaces or WorkSets by not allowing them write access to those files or folders.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/338342?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:53:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:a334a807-3821-4b9f-be52-c3194b404a57</guid><dc:creator>Tim Hickman</dc:creator><description>How did you prevent them previously from creating these ?&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CONNECT - Is there a way to disable workspaces &amp; worksets?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/338278?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2015 01:44:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:28c4c1eb-4c5d-467e-bb69-0617f947dd8b</guid><dc:creator>Andrew Bell</dc:creator><description>In the V8i and previous version the configuration variable MS_WORKSPACEOPTS allowed various options to disable to workspace capabilities on the MicroStation Manager or File Open dialog box. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/askinga/w/askinga/change-the-microstation-manager-workspace-options"&gt;communities.bentley.com/.../change-the-microstation-manager-workspace-options&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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This configuration variable does not seem to operate as it used to and seems to be marked for removed in future versions. I would expect this is due to the fact that we no longer use a File Open or MicroStation dialog. I&amp;#39;m not sure whether this capability has been replaced with a new configuration variable due to the change of  functionality for the Start or Work Page. I will discuss internally whether there is further information regarding this.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>