Where are the settings shown in Advance iLogic Configuration dialog stored?

[AlexFielder]

Hi all,

A customer recently asked a colleague where the "External Rules" paths are stored inside of Inventor 2017.

I'm aware of the following article which applies to versions prior to the 2016 release:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcartic...

But despite finding a user.config for both 2016/2017 inside of the "%USERPROFILE%\appdata\Local\Autodesk,_Inc\" sub-directories on my system neither of the files contains paths such as these:

<string>C:\Users\alex.fielder\Dropbox\iLogic\AddRemove</string>
<string>C:\Users\alex.fielder\Dropbox\iLogic\Drawings</string>
<string>C:\Users\alex.fielder\Dropbox\iLogic\Helper Rules</string>
<string>C:\Users\alex.fielder\Dropbox\iLogic\Misc</string>
<string>C:\Users\alex.fielder\Dropbox\iLogic\Modelling</string>
<string>C:\Users\alex.fielder\Dropbox\iLogic\Properties</string>

My guess is that the reason these paths are no longer stored externally is because of the Import/Export function that was added inside of Inventor 2016?

The problem the customer has is that they have multiple Inventor users and whereas before they could simply deploy the user.config file to each users' machine using AutoIT or Microsoft's SCCM or similar systems they would now have to go to every machine and import the settings for every user.

I have scoured my Windows 10 system for any files which mention part of the above path (using Notepad++'s "find in files" option) but have so far come up empty for 2016/2017 installations.

I even thought that perhaps it was stored in the Windows registry somewhere but RegScanner came up empty too.

If anyone can shed any light on this that would be fantastic!

Regards and Thanks,

Alex.

[Curtis_Waguespack]

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@MjDeck wrote:

Yes, it is possible to push the External Rule Directories path with the deployment. If you look at your iLogicOptions.xml file with a text editor, you should see the external rule directory listed there. iLogic will read that data if it finds it.

Copying the file to a folder within a previously created deployment might not work. I think the installer has an index that lists every file, and it won't use files that it doesn't know about. If that's true, then you would have to create a new deployment. I'll verify.

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Hi MjDeck,

Hey, thanks for the replies.

re: External Rule Directories path in the XML

Yeah, I saw that when poking around the XML file, but just needed to confirm that I was not misunderstanding.

re: Modifying the deployment

We tried modifying the deployment after adding the iLogicPreferences folder and it didn't work. We used the "Create & modify a deployment" shortcut you showed.

We're currently creating a new test deployment image, to see if that is required. We're clicking the "Create & modify a deployment" shortcut and using the option to create a new one using an existing as a template.

I suppose if that doesn't work we'll try creating a new one from scratch (unfortunately we'd have to re-create 3 different deployment images if that is the solution).

I'll post back the results later.

Thanks again,

Curtis

[MjDeck]

Hi Curtis,

 Ok. I'm not sure from your message if you're adding the file in the deployment editor. That's the only way to do it. You have to explicitly add the new folder and the file in the editor. Here's a screenshot:

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi MjDeck,

Ah ha, that is the part we were missing.

We're going to give this another go, and I'll report back, but I suspect that you've solved this for us.

Thanks!

Curtis

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi MjDeck,

 Just an update. Adding the path in that manner did work. It's been a while since we've created deployment images, so it wasn't clear to us that this was what was being described in the help files.

Thanks again for the help!

Curtis

[Anonymous]

I guess the customer will need to ensure that all his workstations are patched to the same level before pushing out a deployment script that updates the most relevant path above.Interestingly, whenever you tell Inventor to export the iLogic configuration it also updates the newest of the above files.

Thanks

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[salariua]

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@Curtis_Waguespack wrote:

 Just an update. Adding the path in that manner did work. It's been a while since we've created deployment images, so it wasn't clear to us that this was what was being described in the help files.

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now that's Plain English for me..