Dismiss Projectwise export dialog in Microstation via VBA?

Hi Mark,

I am not quite sure whether I understand the situation correctly, but I assume VBA cannot interact with ProjectWise dialogs because they are not part of MicroStation but independent application.

What VBA recorder creates when ProjectWise dialog is opened?

With regards,

  Jan

Hi Jan,

Unfortunatley nothing from PW Integration gets recorded at all in the VBA recorder. I have however found a "Projectwise Base Intgration 1.0 Type Libraries" in my VBA references list that may be a link perhaps?

Have you considered Key-IN commands instead of macros, where possible? (these can be invoked from VBA)
I recently had a similar problem and I did not need to use dialogs.
Also consider the msbatch.bat script, and the command line. There is no UI involved and you don't need to deal with extra dialogs.

I know this post is a few years old but was you able to figure out how to suppress the PW dialog on export when in a PW integrated? I just want to know how to suppress or control any PW dialog prompt as some MicroStation keyins force a dialog prompt and I cant figure out how to do it programmatically. I can do it with all other dialogs for the most part. I have loaded the PW reference but cannot figure it out. 

Hi Mark Winegar,

I provide a few common MicroStation ProjectWise MCM-Key-ins to help attach design and raster attachments that should not prompt any modal dialog boxes.

If there are other commands/workflows outside the scope of what is listed feel free to create a new post stating what specific workflow the modal dialog box is being presented.

HTH,
Bob

Hi Robert,
the reason I was asking for a follow up was not necessarily to attach references but to understand and have the ability to suppress a ProjectWise dialog prompt via VBA in a simplistic way just like IModalDialogEvents_OnDialogOpened in base MicroStation, specifically canceling the dialog. I am aware of batch processing and other methods to achieve similar tasks but only when outside of ProjectWise. I need this to work in an active ProjectWise integrated session of MicroStation. 

Some tools in MicroStation do not work with only keyins alone or keyins via VBA programming 100% such as importing levels from a level library (the root of my question). Yes, I can control the prompted MicroStation dialogs outside of a ProjectWise integrated environment to import levels but I cannot suppress the ProjectWise dialog in this manner with that specific tool. If I wanted to batch process files to import levels using an in session Batch Process script in a ProjectWise integrated environment, the user would be prompted on every file. I would like to suppress that if possible.

Hi Mark,

Since then we came up with an idea to temporarily turn off the checkin dialog by using an EXPAND SET keyin with the variable "PW_CHECKINOPT" and then remove it at the end of the macro so the dialogue is reinstated.

I'll post an example shortly.