How are organization level standards stored and called upon?


Product(s): ProStructures 
Version(s): CONNECT Edition (10.XX.00.XX) & 2023+
Area: Configuration
Subarea: Organization Level Configuration
Original Author: Vyanktesh Nama, Bentley Global Technical Support

Problem Description

How are organization level standards stored and called upon?

Steps to resolve

The organization level standards can be defined in the Standard.cfg file located at the below default path. By default, all the folders in this location are empty. 

C:\ProgramData\Bentley\ProStructures 2024\Configuration\Organization

Also, when you open the Standard.cfg file, you can find many Configuration Variables are by default defined. Now, you just need to put your required custom files in a respective folder to call them by the program.

To find the location of any files as well as the configuration variable names, you can search them in the Configuration Variable dialog. For example, in the below image, I am searching dgnlibs and it listed all the variables related to it.

Now, let's define required config variable in the Standard.cfg file on an organization level. For instance, I want to define Structural Dimension Style dgnlib to organization level, for this an associated config variable is MS_DGNLIBLIST_DIMENSIONSTYLES and I want to point this to .../Organization/dgnlib/Dimension/*.dgnlib. So, I need to define this as shown in the below image. We can use "<" prepend symbol to call the defined directories first. 

NOTE: The $(_USTN_ORGANIZATION) variable directly points to Organization folder.

Once it is defined, I need to put the dgnlibs in the defined location to call them by the program.

After that when you open any file and check the variable in Configuration Variable dialog, you can notice that the Level is now changed to Organization from Application and the path can also be seen.

The default location of the dgn files is as follows and this is defined by the config variable _USTN_WORKSETDGNS which can be found in the <WorkSetName>.cfg file located in the WorkSets folder.

C:\ProgramData\Bentley\ProStructures 2024\Configuration\WorkSpaces\<WorkSpaceName>\WorkSets\<WorkSetName>\Dgn