OpenRoads Designer (2019 R1) SUDA Libraries (.xml files' home location)

Question

We're setting up our SUDA environment and our users are not able to access the default location - 
 C:\ProgramData\Bentley\SUDA\10\Libraries\ 
 
 so we want to re-path the above location to our Organization-Civil resources. 
 
 Is this location hard-coded into the software or is there a .cfg line that we just haven't found in order to direct it where we want?

Jesse Dringoli · Answer

Jonathan asked me to assist you with your question. I can answer this based on how SewerGEMS works, and since SewerGEMS is the technology integrated into OpenRoads Designer for hydraulic modeling (including engineering libraries), my answer *should* be accurate, but there may be some slight differences in the SUDA/ORD implementation where Jonathan can help. 
 The location of the default engineering libraries is not controlled by a variable, but rather by way of the paths encoded in a special database. 
 The default engineering libraries that appear in the Engineering Library manager are based on XML file paths established in the EngineeringLibraries.sqlite file. This database acts as a registry of the locations of all the individual XML files available in the Engineering Libraries manager. When you add a new library XML file, it gets added to this database so that when you open the product the next time, it is still listed. For SewerGEMS, the EngineeringLibraries.sqlite file is located here: %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Bentley\EngineeringLibraries\ 
 The default EngineeringLibraries.sqlite contains paths to the default Engineering Library XML files. To change them, please try the following: 
 1) Move the default engineering library XML files in question from the original path (the one you say that users cannot access), to the desired location 2) Open the product, start/open a project, open the Engineering Library manager and delete out any left-over entries 3) Click the New button > Add Existing Library, then browse to the new location of the XML files. This adds the locations to the EngineeringLibraries.sqlite on that computer, so it knows where to look each time the product is opened. 
 If the new location is a network share accessible by all users, then you may be able to apply this change to all users by copying the EngineeringLibraries.sqlite. Note that this is not something that I have tried before and if there are user-specific unique IDs stored inside that database, it may not work on other computers. Alternatively on the other computers, you could remove the old default engineering libraries if they are still present in the Engineering Libraries manager, "add existing", and browse to the new location where you placed the XML files. 
 Note that in some cases you may want to set up your own standards in a separate XML file. For example your county storms, standard pipe sizes, inlets, etc. (as opposed to using the default libraries).

Jesse Dringoli · Answer

If the list of attached XML files in the Engineering Libraries manager is not "sticking" and reverting after you re-open, that may indicate that the paths to the XML file locations did not save to the engineeringlibraries.sqlite file (as mentioned this is the engineering library registry). 
 For SewerGEMS, the engineeringlibraries.sqlite file is stored %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Bentley\EngineeringLibraries\ and I would think that users should have access to their own user profile. Perhaps initially you can sign in or run-as-admin on the program shortcut, fix up the Engineering Libraries manager (writing the new locations to the engineeringlibraries.sqlite file), and then have the user sign in? 
 If the location of the engineeringlibraries.sqlite file is different for OpenRoads Designer, Jonathan can help clarify the exact path.