Enabling user environment customization using group setup files

Probably worth reading the Cadence Application Infrastructure Guide, particularly the sections which talk about the Cadence Search File mechanism (also referred to as setup.loc) and the csfLookupConfig file. It depends to some extent which file you're talking about, but this manual covers most of it. 

Regards,

Andrew 

I will add a small note to what Andrew has mentioned above.  You tagged your post with ".cdsenv" and ".cdsinit" so I will comment on these files.  By default the search mechanism for these files does not follow the CSF - the "caiuser" document that Andrew mentions tells you how to create a csfLookupConfig file to include these files in the CSF lookup mechanism. You can set the CDS_LOAD_ENV environment variable to control how the .cdsenv files are found and loaded, and this can have the value "CSF" which would have the same effect, but this would not alter how .cdsinit files are found.

Hopefully the documentation covers what you need to know.

Best regards,

Lawrence.

Thanks Andrew,

I will read up on that section.

This is related to a previous Post - "Open Layout View to spec'd Configuration" -

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I am trying to support multiple users with different monitor configurations (and preferences of course) to personalize their desktops without colliding with multiple, existing project setup files....which are mostly default as far as window configurations, but otherwise distinct from project to project.

I can modify any given project's setup files for window layout to suit one user, but not more than one user.  I am referring to the CIW, LSW, Lib Mgr and Layout viewer when I say window layout.  For example, I can define the default Layout window size and location in the .cdsenv file, but that is a project-specific file.  I can define the CIW size and location in the .cdsinit, but that is also a project-specific file.

Lawrence,

thank you for the added info.  I will definitely read up what I can find on this.

Thank you both once again.

- James

Hi Lawrence,

I am using a project-specific csfLookupConfig file, which has the following statements in it:

INCLUDE .cdsinit

INCLUDE .cdsenv

I added INCLUDE statements for personal files -

INCLUDE $HOME/.cdsenv

INCLUDE $HOME/.cdsinit

The $HOME/.cdsenv appears to get loaded, as it defines the size and location of the newly opened layout views using a leWindowBBox() setting, and this seems to work.

However, the $HOME/.cdsinit file does NOT appear to be loaded, and this file defines the CIW with a hiResizeWindow() statement, and it is not taking effect.

You did say the csfLookupConfig file would not work for the .cdsinit file, but I am confused how the project setup is successfully using it?

 James,

That's not the way that the csfLookupConfig works. It controls whether a type of file is found using the CSF mechanism or not, and doesn't tell it locations where to find/read a file.

So if you have:

INCLUDE .cdsenv
INCLUDE .cdsinit

it tells it that both of these files will look in the setup.loc locations for each file - that is not the default behaviour for these files (for historical reasons, because both files pre-date the CSF mechanism being introduced).

With .cdsenv, it will load all the files that it finds in setup.loc locations, with the top-most entry in the setup.loc winning over the lower level entries - so that the first is the most-specific.

With the .cdsinit, it loads the first file found only. If you want to load the others, you'd need to carry on the search yourself for other locations to load from, but you can encode that in some central .cdsinit yourself to have the logic where to look.

Regards,

Andrew.

Got it, thanks Andrew, it is all working now.

Thank you so much for the clarification.

There's a cdsenv to control the LSW placement (this is for IC5141, I assume, since LSW is replaced by the Layer Palette now) for Layout XL:

layoutXL lswWindow string "((0  0) (0  0))"

If my memory is correct, users can also set the size using an Xdefault:

 Opus.LSWGeometry: 200x500+100+100

I've not tried this in a very long time though...

Andrew.