Jens, I refactored the sample VBA application a bit to account for polygon collections, including instances consisting of disjointed areas. I did nothing to account for holes at this time. For details, please refer to comments in the findCentroid and…

...you should be able to use the CreateFeatureByUuid method of the FeatureMgr to create an instance using a known UUID as in the following from the help. Private Sub MySub(rootUuidString As String) Dim oFeature As Feature Set oFeature = xft…

...in any Bentley Map installation look for the " Bentley Map V8 i (SELECTseries 1) VBA Programmers Reference Guide " program shortcut to open the xft.chm help file. Expand the table of contents as follows... ...or simply use the "Search" capabilities…

...yes, Erik that is correct. Regards, Jeff Bielefeld [Bentley]

...okay very good Stefan, thank you for that confirmation.

Erik, No worries and your memory is absolutely correct as that was in fact one of the VBA example applications I provided during the Bentley Map development workshop at the 2010 Be Together user conference. Hopefully the example will at least provide…

Erik, It seems that the first method used exposes a defect which is encountered when the FeatureMgr.GetFeatureDefinitionByIndex method is called with an index that references a feature class that is not included in the schema, which of course you are…

...you could try to set the _USTN_USERNAME environment variable to the name of the user workspace (e.g. SET _USTN_USERNAME=geo_example_designer) in the shell before starting your session.

Your VBA based applications which leverage the XFT object model should work directly in Bentley PowerMap Field w/o modification in most cases. However you should be aware that while Bentley PowerMap Field provides redlining/markup capabilities it does…

Greetings Erik, The " Copy Centroid Business Properties To Polygon Feature Instances " example provides a minimum user interface... ...which allows the Bentley Map user to select a centroid (or point) feature class and polygon feature class then…

Stefan, You will most likely have to use regasm.exe to manually register the generated type library, something that is done automatically when Visual Studio compiles the assembly if the projects "Build > Output > Register for COM interop" option is…

Frank, Using VBA along with the Bentley Map XFT (XFM Feature Toolkit) library, you can convert tag data into XFM business properties. A pattern similar to the following could be applied. Function GetTagSet (strName As String ) As TagSet Dim…

...you will need to use the CreateObjectInMicroStation method on the MicroStation application object to ensure that your XFT objects are created in the MicroStation's address space. The CreateObjectInMicroStation method is useful for an out-of-proc program…

Greetings Erik, For the Bentley Map V8 i (SELECTseries 3) 08.11.09 release, many of the API enhancements will be for use by .NET developers in the interoperability area. A minimum number of XFT changes will be included. No changes are planned for the…

Stefan, In the Bentley Map V8 i (SELECTseries 1) 08.11.07.113 release you can make use of the XPath property on a XFT locateOp object as shown in the following... ...which will then send the results of the locate operation to your implementation…

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…

...select the Bentley.Geospatial.Extensions.Oracle.tlb type library when setting your reference.

...as you may have seen, the http://communities.bentley.com/products/geospatial/desktop/f/5924/p/54626/140030.aspx#140030 thread contains some example VB.NET code that reads the business properties from XFM feature instances using XFT, the XFM Feature…

Jens, Is the centroid point from which you want to copy the business properties a different feature class? Do the centroid and polygon feature classes share the same exact set of business properties or do you expect you will have to map property names…