I understand the general concept of running Civil File Manager for migration. When I "open" a file, CFM will analyze that file for attachments and then it will analyze each of those attachments for more attachments.
When I click to view the Update List, I can expect it to trace back as far as it needs to, and I believe it orders the updates according to OpenRoads relationships and dependencies. It lists the attachments that it will be updating and provides an icon according to the version of the file. The file's icon sometimes indicates v8, sometimes ORD, and sometimes just a question mark (which is what? a missing reference?).
Is it possible to selectively update specific files in the list? I don't want to update them all, because some of the references are not my team's responsibility and I'm not qualified to impose choices onto another team.
Also, I'd like to have the updated files land in an entirely different system path, but as long as there are files that are referenced outside the new path, the migration will impact those files outside this path.
Am I missing some important functionality that already enables this?
(For the benefit of posterity, in some videos CFM is referred to as "Version Checker". CFM is found at "C:\Program Files\Bentley\OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition\OpenRoadsDesigner\CivilFileManager.exe".)
Derek,
I think, currently, it doesn't have such option.
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Thank you for confirming my suspicion, Kiran.
I thought is allowed you to select a destination folder, so any files you do not own, will still exist in their original location.
If it doesn't, you could copy all files to a scratch folder and work on them there and that way, you can decide which version of any files you work with and which are retained in their original location and version.
Charles (Chuck) Rheault CADD Manager
MDOT State Highway Administration
From the video I watched, the picture I got is that it saves all the older files in a single zip file, but it'll still impact all the files that we don't want it to impact, and I'd have to re-find all those files and place them where they belong. And god knows how long it will take to process the rather immense network of files it'll be converting (if it works at all, because the network of files is so large), and not all of those are mine to play with.
If it's possible to assign a destination folder, I don't know how. I've seen where I can "open" (select as the primary file to be converted) a folder which I presume will include all DGN files within that folder, but I saw no option to specify where to put the files afterward.