I have been playing with MicroStation CONNECT and studying ProjectWise CONNECT.
While Bentley has changed names and operability of its MicroStation configuration levels (organization, workspaces, worksets, roles), it appears that Bentley has not made any changes to the managed workspace levels (site, project, discipline, etc.) in ProjectWise .
Is Bentley formally defining any parallels between MicroStation CONNECT configuration levels and the ProjectWise CONNECT managed workspace levels? Will the managed workspace levels change names or operability in ProjectWise CONNECT in future releases? Does the MicroStation CONNECT WorkSpaceSetup.cfg file have any impact on ProjectWise managed workspace CSB's? Will MicroStation users experience anything in the interface that says "WorkSpace" or "WorkSet" when working in the ProjectWise CONNECT environment?
This is how we implementing also. Each project has a Workset folder in which a single workset CFG file is placed along with the matching dgnws file. The DGNWS file is automatically created by the CE design application. You must create the appropriately named workset config file in the location defined by _USTN_WORKSETSROOT. The file doesn't have to set anything but must exist in PW.
#----------------------------------
# Set Work set root path to project
_USTN_WORKSETSROOT = $(dms_project (_dgndir))DesignData/CAD_Standards/Worksets/
%lock _USTN_WORKSETSROOT
#-----------------------------------------
# Set Dynamic Workset Name to Project Name
_USTN_WORKSETNAME = $(WS_PROJECT_NAME)
%lock _USTN_WORKSETNAME
If you have issues with the wsdgn file not creating check your local dms folder and make sure you don't have any dgnws files left behind. When testing you end up deleting files but forget to purge first. If the dgnws file already exist in your local cache it will not be created in ProjectWise.
Greg Roberts said:If you have issues with the wsdgn file not creating check your local dms folder and make sure you don't have any dgnws files left behind. When testing you end up deleting files but forget to purge first. If the dgnws file already exist in your local cache it will not be created in ProjectWise.
Omg, I forgot to mention this. IT IS INFURIATING!
Yes it is! I wasted countless time with randomness (worked some times and not others). Something I'll never forget....
Thanks Mark, I have been struggling with ABD update 3 vs PW 280...
Finally got it to "work" although it still seems very temperamental... I set both the Worksetsroot and Workspacesroot (why make it simple when it can be oh so complicated...) in the predefined CSB, all else was failing miserably...
I actually disabled the _TF_WORKSPACEROOT also which didn't seem to have any negative side-effects...
All in all, hours spent during which I'd rather be designing :-) Thanks again.
Oh also I associated the files with Microstation, if associated with ABD CE I get the error message "cannot load mcm.ma".... Talk about trial and error ! :-)
Thanks for these details Kevin, I now more than ever realize I need a computer science degree to be able to use Bentley products...
And also days of 24 hours are really too short... please god :-))
Thanks again, I will try and digest all this.