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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Display Active Project PCF While a CADD File is Open</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/96884/display-active-project-pcf-while-a-cadd-file-is-open</link><description>I was looking at &amp;#39;Text Fields&amp;#39; and hoping that I could use a customized Field to display the current session&amp;#39;s Project (PCF File). The objective here is to display on the CADD file (with an automatically updating Field) the current workspace, within the</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Display Active Project PCF While a CADD File is Open</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/283649?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 15:48:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:0a748e28-7917-4914-858d-4165e212a222</guid><dc:creator>DavidG</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I need to make sure credit is given where credit is due, &amp;nbsp;I only suggested it, it is Jon Summers who was gracious enough to share his code with us. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Its a pretty easy piece of code for a beginner to play with.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Display Active Project PCF While a CADD File is Open</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/283647?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 15:37:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:3fe5b77d-c189-4d52-9f52-1a8b12ce2b10</guid><dc:creator>Richard Tarntino</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Jon Summers... Thanks for the input. That is a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Display Active Project PCF While a CADD File is Open</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/283640?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 15:22:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:30ec0367-221b-4cd8-91c5-82ecc08ec350</guid><dc:creator>Jon Summers</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Rich - FGA&amp;quot;]I am trying to work the VBA route...[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Post questions to the MicroStation &lt;a target="_blank" title="Be Communities: MicroStation Programming Forum" href="/products/programming/microstation_programming/f/343173.aspx"&gt;Programming Forum&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; You&amp;#39;ll find lots of enthusiastic helpers there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Display Active Project PCF While a CADD File is Open</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/283639?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 15:17:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:e98107b1-7c3e-4409-a6ee-55fe5998a443</guid><dc:creator>Budlite</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Workspaces are the &amp;quot;black magic&amp;quot; of Microstation. For the small shops it is far too complex while for large nationwide or worldwide companies it is not near enough. Consider the large companies with 50 or even 100 or more clients. They may have corporate configurations, individual site configurations, then the clients. The clients then may have multiple configurations especially if they are in the transportation field. Then comes projects and user configurations. That&amp;#39;s a lot to set up and track. &amp;nbsp;Workspaces have been essentially left untouched since their inception. A workspace manger is what you guys should be asking for. &amp;nbsp;There is absolutely no reason that when a file is opened in it&amp;#39;s project directory that Microstation couldn&amp;#39;t reconfigure itself for that particular client, client group, and project. There is no reason for Microstation to have to be closed and the user select a new workspace configuration. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Display Active Project PCF While a CADD File is Open</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/283626?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 14:29:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:159a38c8-a18e-49ff-b83c-92f452a57ccc</guid><dc:creator>Richard Tarntino</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks to everyone who has commented above! I am still working this issue... on the side, though it is not a critical (work stop issue). Right now I am trying to work the VBA route (from DavidG), though I am just a VBA beginner. If I get results in the near future, I will post them. Thanks everyone...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Display Active Project PCF While a CADD File is Open</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/283566?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2014 21:53:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b4fc78f7-845f-463c-871c-39968fe628b7</guid><dc:creator>Jon Summers</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;DavidG&amp;quot;]It is a pretty simple hack of LA Solutions&amp;nbsp; MicroStationCaptionEventHandler vba[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Which you will find &lt;a target="_blank" title="LA Solutions: Set MicroStation Title with VBA" href="http://www.la-solutions.co.uk/content/MVBA/MVBA-SetMicroStationTitle.htm"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; It&amp;#39;s been updated to show the project workspace name and some other stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Display Active Project PCF While a CADD File is Open</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/283562?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2014 21:11:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:750bafd3-8080-4c38-9f6f-a929cb5c10cf</guid><dc:creator>DavidG</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I have a VBA that I use at startup. &amp;nbsp;It shows &amp;nbsp; Project, User Interface and File name in the main application titlebar where you normally see &amp;nbsp; filename. &amp;nbsp; MicroStation V8i ()&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is a pretty simple hack of Jon Sommers &amp;nbsp;MicroStationCaptionEventHandler vba.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Display Active Project PCF While a CADD File is Open</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/283560?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2014 21:01:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:fc407fda-0059-4827-9f5f-f258f35fd9d6</guid><dc:creator>jwingfield</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;You could create a custom variable in each .pcf file, then display that with vba along the top caption of MicroStation. &amp;nbsp;Use this&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; ActiveWorkspace.ConfigurationVariableValue(&amp;quot;YOUR_PCF_VARIABLE&amp;quot;) &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;with the vba Application.Caption property.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Another thought. &amp;nbsp;I don&amp;#39;t know if you can somehow use a Named Expression with Fields. &amp;nbsp;You could create a Named Expression using the variable and possibly display that somewhere. &amp;nbsp;I couldn&amp;#39;t figure a way to do that with Fields though. &amp;nbsp;If it can&amp;#39;t be done, Bentley should add the capability of using Named Expressions with Text Fields.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Display Active Project PCF While a CADD File is Open</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/283559?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2014 20:55:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:5c40b78c-e6b6-4117-99f2-fe60b70b4838</guid><dc:creator>Inga Morozoff</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;In a pinch, you could put this on a function key: &amp;nbsp;expand echo $(_USTN_PROJECTNAME);dialog -401&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But you&amp;#39;d then have to look at the message details, and then close the Message Center. &amp;nbsp;Not exactly ideal. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then again, you can also put DIALOG ABOUTWORKSPACE on a function key.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Display Active Project PCF While a CADD File is Open</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/283558?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2014 20:41:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:e4276ef7-b158-428e-937a-340b756533af</guid><dc:creator>Tim Hickman</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Only thing I can think of would be to create a &amp;quot;menu&amp;quot; item with the project name/number and this would display at the top with the rest of the pulldown menus, showing which project you are in.....I was initially thinking, based off of the design file location, but you could open a file from another project while having another PCF loaded, so this would not work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Display Active Project PCF While a CADD File is Open</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/283556?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2014 20:31:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:8f27af43-65ba-4348-a9b2-07a0fce47a89</guid><dc:creator>Tim Hickman</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Even with the icons, once in &amp;nbsp;the file there is no real way to tell what workspace is loaded and I think this is what Rich is looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Display Active Project PCF While a CADD File is Open</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/283547?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2014 18:41:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:d2de0e65-4525-4e56-9e81-0b634c6fb743</guid><dc:creator>Inga Morozoff</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#39;t have a solution for the text field, but could you enforce the users to use a customized icon that sets the correct project via the -wp switch to load the specified project?&amp;nbsp; or the -wu switch&amp;nbsp;that loads the specified user?&amp;nbsp; Or both.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>