I would like some advice on Autosave and Save.
My supervisor wants all the Autosave disabled. I am not sure I want to do that.
What is being ask is to allow a user to open a file but not to take ownership of it when they close it unless they do a "Forced" save.
We have engineers that will open a file to look at it and when they finish they will close it. My guess is that "Autosave" is then giving them the ownership of the file. My supervisor does not want that to happen.
What we want is to only have the file "Save" when it closes by forcing the file to request a "SAVE" by a dialog box when closing it.
I have set all pc's to "Auto-save Design Changes" as they are made in Preferences, but now have that turned off.
I have the "Save Settings on Exit" selected.
What they want is to essentially mimic AutoCAD that demands you save before you exit or nothing is saved.
What would be the impact of doing this in the way described?
If we do this will the autosave function have to be disabled so no work is automatically saved as it is done?
I am thinking that unless a file is being opened as Read Only then you are actually opening the file in MicroStation for modifying it. As a part of the operation of Windows it is therefore "taking ownership" of the file as the user is editing it. You could possibly use the configuration variable MS_READONLY for these user accounts and I would think it could be stored in the User Configuration File.
https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/z_-archived-microstation-v8i-forum/41024/keyin-to-open-read-only
https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/101826/key-in-for-opening-a-drawing/302911#302911
RegardsAndrew BellTechnical SupportBentley Systems