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ProjectWise Design Integration Forum New to Dynamic Managed Workspaces.. Getting workspace standards to load?
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    New to Dynamic Managed Workspaces.. Getting workspace standards to load?

    Scott Marquis
    Offline Scott Marquis over 1 year ago

    I have been developing a Managed workspace for my company. I have a Bentley Common Predefined 1.7 CSB created. I have followed the instructions. I am successfully getting a file to download the workspace. The issue I am having is that none of the "Standards" are loading into ORD. I am sure that I am just missing a line of code somewhere, however I am not sure where that somewhere might be. Has anyone figured this out and willing to so a newbie the ropes?

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    • Kevin van Haaren
      0 Offline Kevin van Haaren Fri, Nov 19 2021 10:41 AM

      Do you have a link to what's in the Predefined 1.7 CSB?

      I have some rules I try to follow in my setup:

      1. Don't try to make one workspace that automatically chooses between v8i and connect. Just keep them completely separate.
      2. Don't try and import an existing non-projectwise configuration. You end up doing more editing than not.
      3. Keep CSBs as simple as possible and do most work in cfg files stored in ProjectWise.
      4. Avoid needing to create CSBs for every project.

      I think 3 is key for us. For example, the predefined CSB I use in my basic-used-for-experiments workspace is:

      I set 2 main variables - the root location of my configuration in the datasource and _USTN_CONFIGURATION. The root location is set as a ProjectWise folder with a string appended to it. 99% of my variables are built using the root location variable, i pretty much never use the ProjectWise Folder or File types in setting variables in CSBs after this one.

      Because I set _USTN_CONFIGURATION in this block, ORD will auotomatically load the WorkSpaceSetup.cfg in the folder that _USTN_CONFIGURATION points at. I don't need to manually %include it in the CSB, ORD does it automatically. I put all my real workspace setup in that WorkSpaceSetup.cfg file.

      I pretty much repeat this same process for Organization, WorkSpace and WorkSet CSBs. Set the pointer variable in the CSB and let ORD automatically load the correct cfg file from projectwise.

      I work for a consulting firm so we have to plug in a lot of different DOT/municipality/federal standards for different projects. That's a little more complicated as support for the Civil Organization isn't built into ORD natively and I do have to do a manual %include to get the right cfg file. I handle that at the ProjectWise Customer level.

       

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    • Kevin van Haaren
      0 Offline Kevin van Haaren Fri, Nov 19 2021 10:43 AM in reply to Kevin van Haaren

      My production CSB for the predefined is pretty much exactly the same as this, except i have additional tests to make sure the user can actually see the configuration folder before attempting to load. it. This gives me a better error message than the standard ORD one.

       

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    • Kevin van Haaren
      0 Offline Kevin van Haaren Fri, Nov 19 2021 10:46 AM in reply to Kevin van Haaren

      Ah, i see the dynamic managed workspace stuff now. will take a look.

       

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    • Mick Inkster
      0 Offline Mick Inkster Fri, Nov 19 2021 10:50 AM in reply to Kevin van Haaren

      To add to Kevins reply, the "WorkSpaceSetup.cfg" for OpenRoads defines a variable called:
      CIVIL_ORGANIZATION_ROOT
      which is pointing to "$(_USTN_CONFIGURATION)Organization-Civil/" by default.

      If you define that variable in your CSB it should help solve the issue.

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    • Scott Marquis
      0 Offline Scott Marquis Fri, Nov 19 2021 10:52 AM in reply to Mick Inkster

      This is my main csb

      Location of the "Common_Predefined.cfg"

      This is the only mod to the "WorkAreaPWSetup_ file

      This is the location of the "Standards" that I need to get loaded:

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