On very large projects with hundreds of people working on the project and you need to change a standard you should not have to go thru all of the dgns in the project to update or purge old standards. Most of the time the standards evolve as the project goes on for years. This should be your #1 fix.
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The keyin "civil dgnlib" will synchronize standards from active dgnlibs to the local file. This includes civil standards like Feature Definitions and Annotation Groups as well as MicroStation standards like levels, element templates, text styles, item types, etc. This key-in could be used in combination with the Batch Process tool to update multiple files.
Copying “standards” from dgnlib to local dgn files is a fundamental architecture of MicroStation (since V8). Virtually all standards (text styles, levels, element templates, feature definitions, feature symbology, annotation groups, etc.) are all designed at the root to work this way. This architecture is intentional to allow the files to be free standing from the workspace they were created in.
A solution would be to add library update functionality to civil file Manager.
Civil file manager offers ability to target file, folders, and can access Projectwise.
I’ve tried batch process before, and they do not work well in ProjectWise on a lot of files. One of our projects has 2793145 files so far. Another one has 76279. Third project has 149993 file and a fourth project that we're working on has 527838 files. I know these are not the only large projects we have in the company.