Bentley Map, my expectation for the Be Together

I just received the invitation to attend Be Together, an event that awakens interesting expectations, after it seems that the economic crisis is set and need to re-activate the opportunities.

Of the best

With the global crisis, last year Bentley launched his Online seminars And left for the end the Be Inspired. It was not a bad idea, but in practice that contact with the exhibitor is lost, when looking for him at the end and asking him specific topics that he did not say in his narration. Remember that annual events are not only to show news, but to promote the growth of a brand. In the case of Geographic Information Systems, buying the program online does not work, since the implementation, training and support are aspects that companies need to identify under certain levels of trust and practicality. In these times of connectedness, the relationships built at events, the contact gained from blog reviews, and familiarity gained with online communities or social media seem to work.

There are all the online seminars, wonderful that they can be seen at any time, but in practice it has been found that those of us who go to an event carry expectations, doubts and confusion of which we are sure we will leave in the four days that the event lasts . And, in response, possibly to what they have detected from the experience, the Be Together is launched, with which the users of the communities have asked:

Interactive product guides
Live Conferences and Demonstrations
Test Areas
Round tables and thematic forums

Everything, with what could not be done last year, seeing the faces.

My expectation

Being involved in some projects related to ESRI, Manifold and Bantley Map, I have a series of very specific questions that I hope to solve. Basic on interoperability, wfs and reasons why it is not working for me, but my emphasis is on this question:

If I am a user of Microstation, very happy from the SE version, I could understand the viscera of Geographics and GeoWeb Publisher, how is it possible that it costs me so much to understand the process flow of Bentley Map?

In other occasions my interlocution has been with Marketing of the Geospatial area, in this case I am interested in the merely technical under a simple dialogue:

-Look, this is my project, I will not use GeoWeb Publisher or Project Wise, only PowerMap:

I want from scratch, to create a schema xfm, with these three categories: Cadastre, Ordering, Cartography

-In the cadastral layer I want to create a layer called Plots

-I want to add four attributes: cadastral key, tax status, area and photograph

-I now want to make the key based on a mask, the tax status based on a boolean domain, the area based on a dynamic calculation, the photograph based on a hyperlink.

-In the cadastral layer I want to create an operation that raises a panel for me to store the data, and that also lets me edit it. Also make a link with an Access table, where your cadastral key matches.

-Then I want to create a user named Catastro, that takes those features and looks at the Command Manager tree.

I have already been trying, but I want to see it from scratch, because there is something in that flow that does not work at once, the second does, and in some cases it occupies a third. Maybe silly, but if I can understand it, I will be happy and I can finish the rest based on the example.

After that, I go to my next question:

Why is there no tutorial explaining this so that ordinary people see that Bentley Map is not on the other side of the sun?

N298551375479_2717 Whatever happens, I hope to bring the answers to the blog, for those who suffer the same penalties or have expectations with this type of software.