Hi,
In our company, we are now using onedrive to store our CAD projects
We are facing a problem with the path for the reference files
If I attach a reference path it uses my Windows user directory :
C:\user\[MYWindowsLogin]\OneDrive-Of-My-Company\Project Folders\Shared Project\ReferenceFile.dgn
So, when a collegue opens the file, obviously the reference file is not found because his windows login is different.
Using relative paths does not help. Not sure that MS_RFDIR can help either because we have a lot of project directories
Any ideas ?
Many thanks
OneDrive creates Windows Environment variables that point to the OneDrive folder of the current user. You can use environment variables as regular variables in MicroStation.
So setting MS_RFDIR to:
MS_RFDIR = $(OneDrive)/Project Folders/Shared Project/ add additional paths with the > operator: MS_RFDIR > $(OneDrive)/Project Folders/Shared Project/other_ref_dir/ Note: slashes should be forward slashes in configuration files.
Kevin van Haaren said:OneDrive creates Windows Environment variables that point to the OneDrive folder of the current user
Apparently we can use other environment variables with OneDrive.
Quoting from that article: The answer is to use %OneDriveCommercial% as the generic prefix to share paths among people using the same corporate OneDrive.
%OneDriveCommercial%
Regards, Jon Summers LA Solutions
I believe %OneDrive% is the generic and %OneDriveCommercial% only exists if you're using OneDrive for business. The article you link to mentions %OneDriveConsumer% is the regular user OneDrive version. I have commercial version installed and have both %OneDrive% and %OneDriveCommercial% (pointing to the same path). I assume all products create the %OneDrive%
if you want a more fail safe way:
%undef ustnOneDrive %if !defined (ustnOneDrive) && defined (OneDrive) && ($(OneDrive) != "") && exists ($(OneDrive)) ustnOneDrive=$(OneDrive)/ %endif %if !defined (ustnOneDrive) && defined (OneDriveCommercial) && ($(OneDriveCommercial) != "") && exists ($(OneDriveCommercial)) ustnOneDrive=$(OneDriveCommercial)/ %endif %if !defined (ustnOneDrive) && defined (OneDriveConsumer) && ($(OneDriveConsumer) != "") && exists ($(OneDriveConsumer)) ustnOneDrive=$(OneDriveConsumer)/ %endif %if !defined (ustnOneDrive) %error Unable to locate Microsoft OneDrive environment variable %endif MS_RFDIR = $(ustnOneDrive)Project Folders/Shared Project/ MS_RFDIR > $(ustnOneDrive)Project Folders/Shared Project/other_ref_dir/
I couldn't find any documentation at Microsoft as to which environment variables are created when.