GEOPAK - Customize Task List??

Got it to work just fine with the video.  Very good stuff.  Thanks

Take a look at the video if you are trying to add Civil Tools to customize Tasks.

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Mike Barkasi

Bentley Civil

Professional Services

Thanks for the information, Robert.  I actually had done what you said about editing a copy of the original dgnlib, but I didn't know where to call it via a configuarion file.  Now I know.  I have stored our customized dgnlib on our server so that everyone who uses GEOPAK in our office now sees the same customized Task List.  They can still turn off the display of certain tools that they may not use as regularly.

 Thanks again,

Josh Mauritz

Josh is correct.  The DGNLIB is in the BIN directory and can be edited to suit.  I might suggest that instead of editing the delivered DGNLIB directly to use the following process:

1. Copy the Geopak DGNLIB
2. Edit the copy.
3. Edit you Geopak CFG file to point to the copy instead of GeopakTaskNav.

Why?  - Just a safety thing in case you forget to save your edits before the next upgrade of Geopak.  If you directly edit the GeopakTaskNav.DGNLIB it could be overwritten when you upgrade to next version or reinstall (unless you saved a copy of your edits of course).

Regarding the CADD tools section:  It is indeed a subset of what you see on Microstation's main task nav group.  The idea was to pull in the most common MS tools so you don't have to keep backtracking to the main task nav as often while also not making the list too large.  So what you see is what "yours truly" deemed common and useful. 

The good side is that as you now know, the task navigation is completely customizable to suit the needs of your organization.