Solid Edge How to transfer the settings of the Property Manager (e.g. the columns format) from one system to another system?

2022-08-05T11:42:16Z
DOC_MANAGEMENT

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Details

The customer has several workstations on which Solid Edge is installed.  Each user of the respective workstation needs to check the properties of their data with the help of the 'Property Manager' which is available in the 'Data Management' tab of a Solid Edge session.

They decided to modify the columns to their needs by, for example, adding some of the available columns to the list (e.g. File Type, File Size, Access Date).

'Data Management' tab > Property Manager > right-click on one of the column names > Columns...

adding by activating some of the available columns

additional columns added to the list

After executing this customization on one of their workstations they would like to transfer these settings to the other workstations without manually redoing all the steps to adjust their preferred listing.  How can this be done?

Solution

 The settings regarding the Property Manager can be transferred from one system (source) to another system (target) by executing the following steps.

In the source system:

  • Exit Solid Edge
    • Run the 'Registry Editor' command on the operating system
      • Expand to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Siemens\Solid Edge\Version 222\General\PropertyManager *)
        • Select the folder PropertyManager
          • Select 'File > Export...'
            • Define a 'File name' (e.g. SE-PropertyManager.reg)
              • 'Save' the registration file
                • Exit the 'Registry Editor' session

                  In the target system:

                  • Exit Solid Edge
                    • Run the 'Registry Editor' command on the operating system
                      • Select 'File > Import...'
                        • Select the registration file that was previously created in the source system (e.g. SE-PropertyManager.reg)
                          • 'Open' the file
                            • Quit the message "The keys and values contained in ... have been successfully added to the registry." with OK
                              • Exit the 'Registry Editor' session

                                   *) Instead of expanding every single folder of the path in the structure tree of the 'Registry Editor' (Computer > HKEY_CURRENT_USER > SOFTWARE > Siemens > Solid Edge > Version 222 > General > PropertyManager), the complete path can be directly pasted into the 'Address Bar' of the editor.

                                mark the content of the 'Address Bar', do a right-click in that field, paste the path from the clipboard, hit the 'Enter' key

                                directly opened path

                                KB Article ID# PL8664629

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