In a restricted environment (university laboratory), the administrator carries out the installation and the AtelierB file is located in a folder that will be shared by all users, and will certainly be write-protected, if not read-protected, from any access other than that of the administrator.
Without access to this file, Atelier B considers that the bdb (project descriptor database) is located in C:/Program Files/Atelier B Community Edition 24.04.2 24.04.2/press/bdb. There is therefore no chance of students being able to add their projects there.
Until the next version of Atelier B fixes this problem, the solution is to modify the Windows registry so that it points to the correct locations for the AtelierB file and project descriptors. The keys to be modified are not created during installation but when you run atelierb.exe for the first time.
The sequence of commands is as follows (replace with your own username):
- run atelierb.exe once – you get the error messages (“bbatch error”) but the registry keys are configured and the directory C:\Users\AtelierB_Data\AtelierB_free_24.04.2 is created for you
- create the directory C:\Users\AtelierB_Data\AtelierB_free_24.04.2\etc – create the file AtelierB in C:\Users\AtelierB_Data\AtelierB_free_24.04.2\etc
- edit the file AtelierB by adding this line to point to your bdb
- ATB*ATB*Atelier_Database_Directory : C:\Users\AtelierB_Data\AtelierB_free_24.04.2\press\bdb
- execute the 2 commands
- reg add “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CLEARSY\Atelier B Community Edition 24.04.2\atb” /v “rcfilepath” /t REG_SZ /d “C:\Users\AtelierB_Data\AtelierB_free_24.04.2\etc\AtelierB” /f
- reg add “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CLEARSY\Atelier B Community Edition 24.04.2\atbwindow\configs\1\atbwindow\config” /v “bdb” /t REG_SZ /d “C:\Users\AtelierB_Data\AtelierB_free_24.04.2\press\bdb” /f
You can now run atelierb.exe and create projects. As usual, you will be asked to define a directory in which to place your project files.