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Selecting the project tool palette group
Tool Content Root Path
Setting a tool content root path can help you keep your tools consistent with
standards if the project or the standards drawings are moved during the project
lifecycle.
When tools on the project tool palettes point to the tool content root path
specified in the project settings, the content root path is created as a variable
(%AECPROJECT_DIR%) in the XML definition of the tool. When the tool
content root path in the project settings is changed, the path of the tools is
changed accordingly.
For example, if all project tools point to content stored under <Project Root
Folder>\Standards\Content\Content 1\, you can move the content to <Project
Root Folder>\Standards\Content\Content 2\, adjust the tool content root path
in the project setup accordingly, and all tools will now point correctly to
<Project Root Folder>\Standards\Content\Content 2.
Another use case for changing the tool content root path would be if a user
wants to work offline, and for that purpose creates an e-transmit package of
the project and its tool content files. When the e-transmit package is unpacked
on the local computer, the path to the content files will have changes. If it
was P:\ <Project Root Folder>\Standards\Content\Content, it could now be C:\
<Project Root Folder>\Standards\Content\Content. If the tool content root path
is redirected to the user’s C drive, and all content will remain valid.
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