Managed Workspace Configuration - Downloads all files in folder

That was my idea too. 
I've made some further comparisons between the two versions of OpenRoads now, and the only difference is this, highlighted in yellow:

Our exclusion list, with variables not excluded in yellow: 

The weird thing is that the exclusion list did work for OpenRoads 10.11 but not for OpenRoads 10.12. Having a hard time finding the logic... 

We aren't using ORD 10.12 yet, but I took a quick look through the configs and nothing is jumping out at me.

One thing that can help find the variable is to create a folder with a unique name and copy a dgn file into that folder and open it. In ORD open the Configuration Variables dialog (File > Settings > Configuration > Configuration Variables). In the Value field of the variable list type the folder name and see what variables turn up.

Hi Kevin! 

We seemed to solve this issue as explained earlier in this thread. 

Now it seems like the issue has come back for us. Even though we haven't made any changes in our exclude list in PW admin. 

One change we have made is, we have upgraded to OpenX (Road/Rail) 2022 R3. Have you hade any similiar problems before? Meaning that, all of a sudden it starts copying all folder files when opening? 

_DGNFILE is ok to leave out or put in. It points to the current file, which has to be copied out anyway, so it doesn't cause extra downloads if it isn't listed.

Kevin van Haaren said:

so it should be a

Hi Kevin! 

First, thank you very much for helping us! 

I opened our .dgn file in debugger mode and found out that following variables included the active dgn folderpath: 

Variables that we hadn't excluded when copy-out:

• _DGNDIR
• _USTN_OUT
• MS_BACKUP
• MS_REPORT_OUTPUT

Variables that we already excluded: 

• MS_REF_DEFAULTATTACHDIRECTORY
• MS_RFDIR

Not sure if this variable is necessary to add or even should be added, but at the time of writing we are excluding it:

• _DGNFILE

In short, at the moment it works like a charm! But we will keep an extra eye on some of the exclusions whether we should keep them as excluded or not.

Further thoughts, does the settings in ProjectWise Administrator (specificly the exclusions) affect Interplot / Create Rendition? For a time no we have had really long rendition times, specifically in those scenarios when we are plotting from folder using managed workspace. 

Kind regards

Nicklas