Why is Bentley discontinuing support for select series? Are you trying to force us to use The Connect addition?
I'm not thrilled with the interface with Connect. And from what I have been reading I am not alone.
I HATE HATE HATE THE RIBBON, I hate all ribbons but I think this one is the worse. There are too many clicks to get to the task you want to go to.
Back in the old days, Bentley was proud that they required fewer mouse clicks \ keystrokes to perform a task compared to Autocad. That workflow went out the window. Using JUST the ribbon just count how many clicks you have to make. LESS IS MORE!
Hi Oto,
Oto said:One of examples(see the link) how totally unneeded changes were implemented
It's always negotiable whether a new feature is good or bad and with what priority is should be solved.
But the link to idea demonstrates how Bentley ignores users and are not willing to communicate with them: Your idea was archived (ok, such thing can happen and the classification is fully in Bentley responsibility), but there is no single notice or explanation how the idea was evaluated and why it was classified as archive.
It's the reason why I decided to do not post any new ideas, because why to invest time to formulate them when your effort is constantly ignored and there is zero feedback? I prefer (and I do it) to contribute to more friendly and opened projects where often the result is "your idea/change/request is not accepted", but I know why and I learned from related discussion.
With regards,
Jan
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Jan Šlegr said:I think it's not surprise, Bentley behaves like Intergraph or IBM in 90th. But we have 21st century when close cooperation with community is treated as important part fo software development.
One of examples(see the link) how totally unneeded changes were implemented which no one asked for but telling that it was asked by users. At the same time some real bugs were not fixed.
https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/i/printing_and_plotting/print-dialog-revert-back-to-not-print-when-hitting-enter-key
https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/microstation_printing/f/printing-and-plotting-forum/113627/ce---print-dialog/371553#371553
The info on the website and from the SS10 installation dialog both clearly state it is only a consolidation of previous updates and a means to postpone users switching to CONNECT. Makes me wonder why the hastle with Connect Licensing. Why not continue the hosted license a bit longer? And why does that require a version SS10 anyway?
Well at least the folks at Bentley have been listening to our crying.
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Hi Jan,
Agreed. Unfortunately, Bentley already has stated the SS4 will be the last release of V8i and filing bug reports for SS4 is useless. (So I have not attempted to report SS4 issues to be corrected in SS10?) It's also interesting that they are only giving 6-7 months of "full support". It sounds like a band-aid that they will give to those who are contacting support with issues.
--Robert
It's a bit weird in context of this discussion that no information about MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 10) has been released and now is avaialble for download. News about the release available here, dated to May 1st when this discussion was quite active.
Regards,