I have just reviewed the IDEAS in this forum and there are a lot of very good IDEAS and some have been either promoted or demoted in popularity. But as yet, I cannot recall seeing any of them implemented. Some of them were suggested at the EAP stage and still didn't make it into the products..... My questions are: Have Bentley done anything (reviewed) with these IDEAS? Which IDEAS will become part of the product(s) and what time frame........? (if any) Have we wasted our time suggesting IDEAS? and finally, will Bentley expose their development plans for the next 12 months, so we can vote on what WE want to be included or not. (maybe offer this VOTE to those key uses that are ACTIVE in the forums....) Ian

IDEAS - What will Bentley do with them and when?

I have just reviewed the IDEAS in this forum and there are a lot of very good IDEAS and some have been either promoted or demoted in popularity. But as yet, I cannot recall seeing any of them implemented. Some of them were suggested at the EAP stage and still didn't make it into the products.....

My questions are:

Have Bentley done anything (reviewed) with these IDEAS?
Which IDEAS will become part of the product(s) and what time frame........? (if any)
Have we wasted our time suggesting IDEAS?

and finally, will Bentley expose their development plans for the next 12 months, so we can vote on what WE want to be included or not. (maybe offer this VOTE to those key uses that are ACTIVE in the forums....)

Ian

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Offline Bob Rayner Mon, Mar 12 2018 6:23 PM in reply to MaryB +2

I remember a time when Bentley, at least seemingly, cared about us users. It was long ago. For quite a while now they only seem to care about the potential user (read sales). I imagine there are a good…

0 Maria Garcia Mon, May 16 2016 7:22 AM
Hi Ian,

You have posted in the Spanish MicroStation Forum (Es).

I will ask a Bentley Moderator to move this thread to the correct location. MicroStation Forum

Regards

Maria

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0 Offline Ian Lapper Tue, Oct 25 2016 10:07 AM
OK we now have CONNECT 3 available for use. I have just reviewed the list of the resolved issues.

communities.bentley.com/.../31326.list-of-the-resolved-issues-for-microstation-connect-edition-update-3-10-03-00-30

Now here's the thing... we the users have spent time again putting ideas and SRs, CR/TRs etc. together and looking at the link above, there isnt any movement on our ideas. Also, who defines what will be fixed. Although its great to see fixes, but are theses the most important ones.......

Can Bentley let us know via the Ideas, what they deem as ... This will be added in the next 3, 6 12 months

I know its not Bentley policy to state what you are fixing, but can you not update the author of the SR, CR/TR that you are working on the issue. We don't hear anything....

Thank you

Ian
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0 Offline Bigean Tue, Oct 25 2016 10:44 AM in reply to Ian Lapper

Bentley gave us connection client to the cloud, quarterly term licenses and unreal-time usage logs. Those ideas beat everything else, don't they? These were requested by all of us.
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0 Offline KEN-T Tue, Oct 25 2016 11:29 AM

I suspect that we are wasting our time, I made some suggestions about importing large data sets in CSV format to populate data for Display Rules. We have since stopped using it, shame really as I thought that this was one of the best of the FEW new features. The changes we see are basically the low hanging fruit.

For the Ideas section to succeed, we need input / feedback from Bentley's developers as well as the users, otherwise it's a pointless exercise.

Ken
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0 Offline Koert Tue, Oct 25 2016 1:14 PM in reply to Ian Lapper
Well I have to disagree with you somewhat there Ian. The updates are primarily for fixing bugs and that's what Bentley is doing with them. Many of these resolved issues used to result in ungraceful exits. I think it's pretty important to get those out of the way first. You don't want the software you use almost every day crashing over and over again.

These great new Ideas we have, are often quite significant and new functionality. This is more likely something to be considered for a major future version, not something that'll be added in a 3-monthly update.

Fixing stuff, to make the software more usable, was the goal of these updates IIRC.
Real new ideas are something to be considered for a development cycle of a year or maybe 2.

It's important to clean up what was in the initial release of CONNECT, because a lot of it was very much broken.
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