Connect Edition - Thoughts?

Sounds interesting so far. I'm also used to Revit so I'm particularly interested in Parametric cells. I'm hoping they work like Revit's Generic Model Families with custom instance parameters as I could potentially have a need for that in the near future. I don't mind ribbon apps, no doubt you can customise it just like the V8i Task interface can be (which I originally hated as I started my career using a digitising tablet with no requirement for on-screen toolboxes but after that broke, I had to adapt to a mouse and the task interface was the best option for a custom GUI). I'm just concerned about the amount of bugs there is and the unknown of when they will actually be fixed.

Unknown said:

Items - Used to add data to items so that we can report on them, change their colours etc , ie fire rating, Door IDs.
Display Rules - Used in conjunction with above to enhance level overrides ie show in red all fire rating walls

So I've created a door/frame group (2D0 and made it an 'item'. How do I change it's colour, not using ByLevel symbology and Level Manager?

Looking at Help I should be able to get to Display Rules from Display Styles but I don't see this option.

stuartw said:

I've created a door/frame group 2D0 and made it an 'item'

You don't make anything an 'item'.  You first define an Item Types schema (similar to a database schema or tag set defintion).  Then you attach item data defined by that schema to your graphic element. 

In your case, you might define (or have your MicroStation support agent define) a door schema.  Then attach item data from that door schema to your doors in a DGN model.  Once you have one or more doors with item data attached, you can use MicroStation's built-in tools to create door reports and place tables.