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The purpose of this document is to guide you through the deployment process of Bentley Substation CONNECT Edition. The deployment process involves the following steps:
Please refer to the article How to download the Bentley Substation software.
An administrator should install the software on one machine that they can use to initially configure the software and establish a shared corporate workspace further explained in step 4 below.
For instructions on installing Substation CONNECT Edition you can refer to the online Substation Help > QuickInstall Guide.
If you want to create a software deployment image in order to facilitate the installation of the software across your organization then refer to the Substation Help > Deployment Guide topic for detailed steps on how to create this.
To share projects among multiple users you will need to have SQL Server running on a network server. See the application’s readme file for SQL Server requirements.
Note: Currently there is no method to update a legacy V8i project database to CONNECT. You will have to create a new CONNECT project database and refer to the topic, “Migrate V8i Projects to CONNECT” for instructions on how to migrate your V8i projects.
To create a new CONNECT project database, you can refer to the article, “Creating and Updating the Project Database.”
The installer delivers an example workspace named, “Substation Example” which contains the standard symbol catalogs, parts database, page formats, templates, etc.
Important! Bentley reserves the right to modify the Example workspace on new releases of the software. You must create and deploy a new corporate workspace that includes your custom content and templates rather than modifying the existing Example workspace.
To create a new WorkSpace follow these steps:
By default, the dataset resides in the following folder within your WorkSpace:
…\MyCompany\Standards\Substation
The dataset is organized into the following subfolders found in the before mentioned folder:
You may delete any default content that you do not need from the dataset. For instance, you may have no need for the Sample Projects or specific catalogs.
If you have custom content from V8i that you would like to use such as catalogs, report templates, and other files you can copy them over to the CONNECT WorkSpace to the appropriate folder.
The following sections will explain in more detail how to add your custom content.
To ensure that the software loads your custom catalogs you must follow this twostep process:
Catalog Paths can be specified in one of two ways:
Directly editing a configuration file
Set the configuration variable named, “ELEC_CATALOG_PATH” in a configuration file to point to each of your catalogs. Multiple catalogs should be delineated by a semicolon “;” when setting the value for the ELEC_CATALOG_PATH variable as shown below:
ELEC_CATALOG_PATH = $(_USTN_WORKSPACESTANDARDS)$(_USTN_APPLICATION)/Catalogs/MyFirstCatalog/;$(_USTN_WORKSPACESTANDARDS)$(_USTN_APPLICATION)/Catalogs/MySecondCatalog/
The two recommended places to specify your catalog paths are as follows:
Refer to the article Configuration Files for a greater understanding of the configuration files in the application.
Using the application’s interface