Bruce, Please zip up and send me via private message... Your modified MVBA file. A sample design file containing the original MicroStation shape elements. A current copy of your Bentley Geospatial Administrator schema file. ...and I will…

Bruce, The provided MVBA example code demonstrates how one could read the MSLINK value from the graphical element in the promoted polygon collection feature instances and write the value to a business property, which after posting would appear in a…

Bruce, During the "Promote" process the database linkages should be preserved and remain available on the elements. However database linkage information is not automatically available on the feature instance or inserted into the spatial database during…

Bruce, I contacted one of my colleagues familiar with the "Insert > Polygon Placement Metadata..." process in the Bentley Geospatial Administrator and was able to determine that the "Align" annotation option is not available for polygon collection feature…

Bruce, It sounds as if you may have failed to select or define a "Text Expression" during registration of your point feature. In the following image... ...the "[NAME]" property was selected as the "Text Expression" which should result in... …

Bruce, The documentation appears to be in error. I would recommend that you rename your columns to MS_X_SCALE and MS_Y_SCALE and register your feature class again, verifying that the expected columns are automatically selected and not showing up as…

During the "Register Features..." process columns named MS_ANGLE, MS_X_SCALE and MS_Y_SCALE are automatically selected as shown in the following. As Jerry mentions you can use any database column names for angle and rotation but manual selection in…