Application Options when offline

[Anonymous]

I'm running Inventor 2020.  My Application Options are referencing various files on our network (Design Data, Symbol Library, VBA project, etc.).  If I use Inventor offline, my Application Options are getting reset.  I understand that it can't find the network files, and I'm fine working without them on the rare occasions that I can't access the network...but is there a way to make sure my original Application Options load the next time I start-up on the network?

[Frederick_Law · Accepted solution]

Set network location in Project.

Set another Project for working offline.

Set Application Option with local file location.

[jtylerbc · Accepted solution]

Another option would be to export both versions of your Application Options, and Import from the appropriate XML file depending on where you are.  This is a method we previously used at my company.  @Frederick_Law 's method would not have worked well for us, since we use project files on a per-job basis.

We later replaced this with a VBA macro that could switch between Local and Network modes.  This streamlined the process a bit.

Due to other changes in our setup, we no longer use either of these.  But they worked reasonably well during the time period when we did use them.

[Anonymous]

Both good options we can work with.  Thanks!