Document Manager - grouping by Area

[sdubbs]

I've been using the area field in the DOC_REG table to sort the models, but now for some reason the sorting no longer works. Display Options > Document Grouping = Area.

It was working for some time but it just quit working and now the only way to use Document manager is to set the Document grouping to None.

Has anyone else ever seen this problem?

Note that this is for the 3D models

[PartRidge]

Did you upgrade your projects from a previous version lately?

We have discovered that for some reason upgraded projects the document display grouping stops working. But not for all upgraded projects.

Bentley has no explanation for this. But they did find that if you package the project and un-package it to a new project it works again.

Any of our new projects created the grouping works without incident.

Not sure where the gremlins are, but they are there.

[CadFileRefiner]

I had this issue too. The fix for me was to make sure that there were no models listed as "Area Unknown". Once I assigned an area to all the "area unknown" files, the Area grouping was available again. For me, only the piping models were affected. All Raceways and Structural were visible when grouped by Area. Worth a try?

[sdubbs]

There are no models listed as "area unknown" but there are some Nulls which default to Area Not Defined and we have not upgraded our version.

The strange thing is that it is only happening for Piping models and the other disciplines are fine. I checked the data against the data types/lengths in SQL and they seem to be fine.

[sdubbs]

Fixed it. It turns out that there were some "blank" fields in AREA (not null).

Thanks for your help

[CadFileRefiner]

You're most welcome. That one made me crazy for a while too!!