No records in catalog

I have created a number of specs, each with its own catalog. When I open Catalog Editor, I get a message saying "Catalog does not have CatalogTables in it. Do you want to add this table?" and no records appear in the editor. What is the reason for the error?

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  • Normally, this is becuase the catalog was not created using Bentley tools.  When the catalog editor creates a catalog, it inserts not only the tables for each component type, but also makes an entry into a table called CatalogTables, which is presumably used to differentiate the actual component tables from tables with other auxillary information (just my guess).

    Check your catalog databases for the tables as shown in the image below.  If they aren't there, I woudld reccomend re-creating them using the Bentley tools.  You can probably copy and paste a good bit of the data, but I would do a small scale test to be sure.

    The DefaultSysID table is another to pay attention to.....  But thats an entirely different story.  Hope this helps!

     

  • Thanks for the explanation. (I believe it was created from Bentley Spec Gen, so I don't think that was an issue).

    Anyway, it was ok after doing a cold restart.

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