Running several instances of PI - different startup behaviour

[Christoph Puetz]

Dear community,

sometimes I run PI with 2 instances in parallel.
The second (or 3rd, ...) instance provides different initialisation values (i.e. in format explorer) and only
the basic modules are loaded, while the first instance loads an individual set.

This might be intended and could be useful.

My question is: Is there a way to edit an initialisation file in order to keep the startup behaviour the same for
all instances? Otherwise I had to set all values and modules "per hand" for each new instance.

Thanks in advance !

[Alejandro Tombolini]

Hi Christoph,

In the second instance go to
Process>Modules>Install Modules>Search>Install and you will install missing modules.
Scripts>FeatureScript>Add and you will install missing scripts.

For Favorites, go to Process>Favorites in your first instance of PI and "Save Favorites Process Collection", then go to Process>Favorites in your second instance of PI and "Load Favorites Process Collection"

Regards,
Alejandro. 

[georg.viehoever]

I hope this unintuitive "feature" is going away with version 1.80. I am pretty sure it is partly responsible for the many "module xy disappeared " messages that we are seing.

Georg

[Christoph Puetz]

Hallo Georg and Alejandro, thanks for your replies (and sorry for answering late) !
Alejandro: This is a good workaround for me and it works.