Preventing users from hitting Export Configurations... button

[Chris3]

Starting with Creo PTC changed the way that user config options where saved. When a user goes to File-> Options  there is an "export configurations" button that exports all config.pro settings to a single file. This includes any company config settings that are loaded with a startup script.

How are other folks preventing users from accidentally copying the company settings into their own local config.pro?

I will probably generate a mapkey that picks the "only changed" filter, then the export per current filter option and embed that in the UI but I would like to know if there are any better options that other people have come up with.

[MartinHanak]

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@Chris3 wrote:

Starting with Creo PTC changed the way that user config options where saved. When a user goes to File-> Options  there is an "export configurations" button that exports all config.pro settings to a single file. This includes any company config settings that are loaded with a startup script.

How are other folks preventing users from accidentally copying the company settings into their own local config.pro?

I will probably generate a mapkey that picks the "only changed" filter, then the export per current filter option and embed that in the UI but I would like to know if there are any better options that other people have come up with.

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Hi,

theoretically ... you can develop a script, that compares user config.pro with company config.pro and removes all identical rows from user config.pro. You can incorporate such script into Creo startup script.

[lhoogeveen]

Has anyone created a product idea for this? We have the same problem and it usually comes up when we change standard config.pro settings/mapkeys or do a Creo upgrade. Without much success, I usually instruct people to only edit config.pro files in Notepad so they only intentionally put things into their local options. I created this product idea to Allow Mapkeys in the Config.sup to partially deal with this headache for mapkeys.