Information related to the process of defining custom coordinate systems can be found in the Bentley PowerMap V8 i (and Bentley Map V8 i ) user documentation in the " Upgrading a Custom Coordinate System from a Previous Version of Bentley Map or MicroStation…

...the top level "Project" and "Database" menus that previously existed in the 2004 Editions of MicroStation GeoGraphics and Bentley PowerMap are no longer available in the 08.09 and 08.11 versions of the Bentley Map and Bentley PowerMap products. …

Charlie, The ability to save buffers as well as other spatial analysis results as XFM features (including both element geometries and properties) does not currently exist. This capability is being added to Bentley Map V8 i for release in Q2 2009…

Alan, The ability to edit multiple XFM feature instances unfortunately is not included in Bentley Map at this time. We have received a number of customer requests for this functionality and are working to provide that capability later this year…

...please refer to http://docs.bentley.com/en/Map/MicroStationMaphelp165.html#P29D05 for instructions on defining a user coordinate system. HTH, Jeff Bielefeld [Bentley]

Hi Ian, No, this is not possible. You will require the XFM engine running inside Bentley Map (or PowerMap) to be able to interpret the XFM properties (and the XFM object hierarchy, for that matter). So the options you have: Use Bentley…

The Bentley Geospatial Administrator (geospatialadmin.exe) should be used for all interactive geospatial schema editing. The following command line should automatically open the specified schema: geospatialadmin.exe -l=full_file_specification.xml…

...agreed with Jerry that the date filtering seems to work with other data sets as seen in the following: ...so I wonder if the property type in your feature class definition is being seen as "string" or "date" type which would provide different filtering…

Adrian, In the Bentley Geospatial Administrator, you should be able to assign an Oracle sequence generator during the "Register Features..." process for this. Before registering your feature, be sure you have created the sequence in your database using…

...was able to reproduce what you are seeing when using a non-RDBMS type property. Please attempt the following and let me know if you are able to filter your date properties as expected. Modify your date property to "dateticks" type as shown in…

Rod, You should be able to select the layer, press and hold the Ctrl key then drag the layer into your newly created group.

Erik, Are you using Bentley PowerMap V8 i (SELECTseries 1) and if so what specific version? Using "Dutch (Netherlands)" regional settings with a recent Bentley Map V8 i (SELECTseries 1) 08.11.07 build on the MicroStation V8 i (SELECTseries 2) 08.11…

Hello, You can set configuration variable MS_GEOXFM_NO_CLOSEDELEMENTCOLLECTIONS = 1 to disable this processing. If this variable is set to any value then the XFM / Dynamic Feature Scoring (DFS) engine will not create polygon collection feature definitions…

Stephan, Yes, in early Q1 2011 we will be releasing (SELECTseries 2) versions of Bentley Map and deriatives. For those using the Bentley Map V8 i (SELECTseries 1) 08.11.07.113 maintenance release, please be aware it is certified for use on the MicroStation…

Praveen, If you have not done so already, you may want to review the Bentley Map V8 i (SELECTseries 1) Commercial Release announcement located at the top of this forum for a summary of release highlights. Regards, Jeff Bielefeld …

This issue has been filed as TR 251510 and is scheduled to be resolved in a Q1 2009 Bentley Map V8 i maintenance release. Regards, Jeff Bielefeld [Bentley]

Alan, The last version of Bentley PowerMap Field was the 2004 Edition which provided support for MicroStation GeoGraphics 2004 Edition projects. A new version of Bentley PowerMap Field V8 i is being prepared for release in Q4 2009 which will support…

...if you connect to the proper database during Bentley Map or Bentley PowerMap session startup, then the RDBMS properties can be consumed by the "Interoperability" application including "Preview" as well as general "Search" and "Data Browser" capabilities…

Kirmo, This behavior is caused by the fact that the "Connect to Database" dialog was cancelled w/o providing RDBMS login credentials. Since you are connecting to your RDBMS using a db= keyin you should be able to add MS_GEOXFM_DISALLOW_INFERRED_DBCONNECTION…

Martin, Thank you for the report. Many of the legacy tools are no longer available in the default Bentley Map and Bentley PowerMap user interfaces. In many cases, this was done to simplify the user interface by providing more direct access to the…