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…

Ian, You should not have to do any additional steps to visualize your imported parcel polygons using the Map Manager functionality. Could you send me a sample design file that exhibits the problem as well as the SHP (or other) file which the data…

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…

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]

...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…