Working on a large PW project with many users from many firms. We have "master" contour files that users reference when they need contours for display. However, there are corridor based DTM's and other connected/adjoining DTM's needed to make this file's display.
Certain end-users sometimes need to load the underlying DTM files and it can be problematic for them to determining which DTM to load and with the many hands in the pot, even the location of the DTM is PW is varied.
To help, I tried making a Drafting Tools Plan Note to label the DTM's by name using a non-plotting Level but found I had to make each DTM active for the label to work, even though MicroStation lists the Surface name in the hover over tips. It should be possible for a Plan note tool to access the same surface information as MicroStation is using. Being able to do this would simplify my life.
In my office, we have always used tags on every InRoads element that supports this capability so users can use tag information to access this type of information even with no InRoads files loaded. But on this project, the "team" does not want to work in this manner. When I tried showing them the benefit of this methodology, the appearance of many orphaned tags that some, yet to be determined workflow left behind, started my demonstration off with two strikes against it.