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    ProjectWise Explorer Open With dialog Read-Only default

    Kevin van Haaren
    Offline Kevin van Haaren over 2 years ago

    Because I have to switch pretty frequently between MicroStation V8i, Power InRoads, OpenRoads and MicroStation CONNECT I changed my default double-click action in ProjectWise to be Open With.

    The Open With dialog has a checkbox "Open as Read Only". This box is on by default if for any reason the last file you opened was Opened Read-Only. All these trigger the new default to be Open Read-Only:

    • Open old version of file
    • Open a file where your permissions are read-only
    • Open a file in final status

    Apparently what doesn't trigger it is rich-clicking a file and selecting "Open as Read-Only"

    This is SUPER ANNOYING. I honestly thing the "Read-only checkbox" should default to ON is if the user themselves turned it on for the last file they opened. Just opening a file that happens to be read-only shouldn't trigger it.

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    • Goda Kutkeviciute
      0 Offline Goda Kutkeviciute Tue, Jun 8 2021 6:10 AM

      There is an existing defect regarding this behavior (TFS ID 601094). 
      In addition, always opening documents using the Open With option is not a recommended practice. I suggest you to create application associations for each application that you are using. This way the "Open as Read-Only" will not bother you.

      Here is a link on application associations creation:
      docs.bentley.com/.../GUID-57FDC273-FAAF-E51B-D8D0-ECE182B4DD21.html

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    • Kevin van Haaren
      0 Offline Kevin van Haaren Tue, Jun 8 2021 8:03 AM in reply to Goda Kutkeviciute

      We do this however with Bentley's move to power based products for connect and licensing terms making the power products the only real option for SES licensed products our users use:

      • OpenRoads Designer
      • OpenRail Designer
      • OpenBridgeModeler
      • Power InRoads SS2
      • Power InRoads SS10
      • Power GEOPAK SS2
      • Power GEOPAK SS10

      Most of our users will use 3 of these products as they move between projects. However we can only make dgn files default to one product in a datasource. So unless our users want to constantly be assigning the application as they create new dgn files they'll need to use open with.

      generally we recommend they use Open With and turn on "always use this product" until they need to change it, but if they're active on 2 projects at the same time this may not work.

       

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