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This article describes how to concatenate the values of two properties to create a third. For example, you may want to capture an asset tag property that must be entered as nn-nnn. To accommodate this, Left and Right properties are defined which are filled…

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When creating Date Time properties, the Show None option is disabled by default. This prevents you from placing or editing features with a null value for the date. To overcome this, enable Show None which adds a toggle to the Date Time property…

When designing your project schema, it might be desirable to set all property fields to the same number of characters. This would produce visually appealing input fields of the same width. However, when dealing with combo box properties, also…

You can update a user defined property when split/merge tools are used against a polygon. For example, perhaps you have a property called DateChanged and you'd like that field to automatically update when the polygon is split or merged. Before Split…

The default paths for the shortcut targets are noted below. Bentley Map V8i Standalone - C:\Program Files (x86)\Bentley\MapStandalone\V8i\MapStandalone\MapStandalone.exe Bentley Map V8i for MicroStation - C:\Program Files (x86)\Bentley\MicroStation…

In the event that the Geospatial Administrator throws you a Cannot access a disposed object error, you can try the following: 1. Ensure all .NET components or JAVA components are up-to-date. 2. Review the Windows Event Viewer log file to see if there…

In this example, existing polygon features have a Name and Date Changed property. When the Name is edited, the Date Changed property will automatically update to the current date. To do that, you need to define a Property Watcher on the Name field…

As the Administrator for your OpenCities Map project, you may find it helpful to add a desktop icon that opens your project schema directly. This is especially useful at the beginning of your project where you need access to the schema frequently for…

Text Justification sets the position of text relative to its origin. MicroStation supports all justification types for both single-line and multi-line text. Text Justification is used only for text whereas Text Node Justification is used only for Text…

It's important to define your text size properly in the GIS schema to get the desired results on the map. In this article, we'll take a look a the parameters, values and settings to get it right the first time. Apply Drawing Scale , when enabled,…

The Geospatial Administrator provides the ability to round up or down the display of property values defined as numbers. For example, diameters might be stored with four decimals, but you might want to display annotation with only two decimals. This rounding…

Interactive geospatial schema editing is done with the Geospatial Administrator (geospatialadmin.exe). This executable is found in ...\MapEnterprise\bin installation folder, and when run from a command line, it can be used to open specified schemas: …

To create multi-line text for PBA annotation use \010 to insert a new line or carriage return: For example: Valve Number \010 [ValveID] wi ll produce the following:

In the Files node of the Workspace, each section has three fields : Source File , Destination File and Ignore Source Directory . Source File - If you enter a path such as c:\temp\ into the Source File, you must toggle the Ignore Source Directory.…

The following article discusses how to define a polygon feature that supports holes. Storing MicroStation polygons with holes using the XML Feature Modeling (XFM) data model, requires the definition of a Polygon Collection . This requirement is…

The Geospatial Administrator does not provide options for customizing the Command Manager. For example, the following are the results of running the Update Command Manager List tool. Note that the Place and Promote entries are placed in the same category…

The following is an example of using UpdatedBy and UpdatedDate properties to capture the current Windows user and current date. Here the UpdatedBy is defined as a textbox and UpdatedDate is defined as a date. In addition to enabling the…

Bentley Map Help states: The Value Col Name is the column from the query that will actually be stored in the property. The Edit Column name is the column from the query that will be displayed in the combo box . That means the: Value Col Name…