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10/14/2008

Tutorial Using ArcGIS Explorer
  1. Start  by clicking on Start menu Start Menu, Next clicking > All Programs>  ArcGIS >  .

If prompted to set a home server, arcgis-explorer-connectionHome

choose the option to connect to the ESRI server arcgis-connect-menu

and click arcgis-explorer-OK. 

  1. The application starts with the default map from ESRI server.

 arcgis-explorer-full

  1.   Review the ArcGIS Explorer application: 

 

  1. On the left side of the application are containers for items such as Tasks, Results and Table of Contents for the layers displayed and available.


     
  2. A Container on the left can be collapsed by clicking on the small downward pointing triangle to Hide, (Show) and on some Containers – float the container and move it around the map space. 






     
  3. The entire Task Panel on the left can be hidden by dragging the separator to the left.


     
  4. Review the available tasks in the TASKS container (Find Place, Find Address, etc.).  Tip: for a place type a city or airport abbreviation (LAX).


     
  5. After finding a place or address, the Results container show the results found; which when found can be right-clicked on to zoom to or add a link to. 
    Right Click ArcGIS Explorer
     
  6. Under the TOOLS Menu, click the Go To Location to enter a Lat/Lon or to access a tool to click on the map and get the Lat/Lon at clicked location.





     
  7. Under the TOOLS Menu the available Tasks can be customized; click Manage Tasks to change which tasks are available to the user.




     
  8. Manager Layers.



  9. You can change the default behaviors of arcGIS Explorer.



 

      Now you will add a local service to the ArcGIS Explorer application.

      1. From the File File Open menu, choose Open .

      Menu

      1. On the left of the Add Content dialog box, click Servers Click servers.

        Server Option
         
      2. At the top of the dialog box, click  to create a new ArcGIS Server connection. Server Connection
      3. On the “Add New Server Connection” dialog box, 


      enter the following URL : 
       

                http://webgis.uwm.edu/arcgisuwm 

       

      1. Leave the User Name and Password fields empty and click OK to connect.
      2. When the connection is successful,

      at the bottom of the Add Content dialog box,





       

      click the Show of Type down arrow and choose Map and Globe Services.

       

      Click .

      1. Expand your GIS Server connection then expand the Maps Folder.
      2. Select the MilwaukeeService service then click Open.
      3. When ArcGIS Explorer asks for display settings for the new data, accept the default for the minimum raster cell size


         

      You can choose to

       

      and click .

       

      1. On the next panel, accept the default caching option




      and click .

       

      The service is added but if you aren’t zoomed into Milwaukee you won’t see it. 

       

       

      Next you will zoom into the extents of the MilwaukeeService layer.

       

      1. In ArcGIS Explorer Contents menu in the left console, right click on Maps_MilwaukeeService layer and choose Zoom to layer.  The globe will rotate if necessary and then zoom to the extent of the service.


         
      2. Next you will use some of the navigation controls.

         
         
      3. The Navigator control allows you to zoom in, out, adjust tilt, and rotate the globe.


         
      4. Experiment with the navigator controls.
      5. In the list of available tasks, click the  task to activate it.


         
      6. In the Task Center window, type Washington for the place without specifying a state or country.


         
      7. Click to begin search.
      8. In the Results window, right-click a matched record and choose Zoom.





       

      There are other globes and maps available from ESRI that you can open and explore.

       

      1. From the file menu, choose .
      2. Web Broswer will open up with this website.


        Click one of the available globes or 3D basemaps from the page...

        Click on Historical link


         
      3. click
      4. If prompted to save changes,



        click .
      5. Take a few moments to explore the new globe and/or other maps and globes.
      6. When finished, close ArcGIS Explorer; you do not need to save the map.
      If you are internested in opening ArcGIS KLM service:
       
      Note: This ArcGIS KLM service can be used in Google Earth too.
       
      From the File File Open menu, choose Open  
       
      Choose "KML"
       
       
      Enter the URL below:
       
       
       
      click
       
      Additional Information about ArcGIS KMZ Service:
      The KMZ was created using ArcGIS Desktop 9.3 ( using GDBDirectConnect) with new feature KMZ export to the ArcGIs Server 9.2.
       
      Posted at 4:00 PM by Kurt R Meingast | Category: ArcGIS Explorer | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

      11/14/2007

      ArcGIS Explorer Labs
      Posted at 7:12 PM by Kurt R Meingast | Category: ArcGIS Explorer | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

      11/8/2007

      Adding Customized Task for ArcGIS Server Explorer

      Providing a custom task from the server requires making the file containing the tasks available to your server.    The next few steps will use a custom ArcGIS Explorer task that is provided, and make it available from your server.  This sample is provided in the ArcGIS Explorer SDK and allows users to draw shapes on the map.

      Note: Your ArcGIS Server will need to have correct ArcGIS Explorer home server files.

       

      1. Open Windows Explorer or My Computer
      2. Navigate to the M:\ArcGISServer\Data\YourLogin folder.
      3. Locate the  ESRI.E2SDK.TrackShapesVB.nmf file

      The ESRI.E2SDK.TrackShapesVB.dll is ready located in the \ArcGISUWM\Explorer folder under the root directory of the Web server.


      .nmf file extension stores ArcGIS Explorer maps – which are XML-formatted text files.

       

      1. Right-click ESRI.E2SDK.TrackShapesVB.nmf and choose Open With > Notepad.

       

       

      1. Locate in the ESRI.E2SDK.TrackShapesVB.nmf file..

      Between the <DownloadLocation> and </DownloadLocation> tags, provide the URL to the task .dll file.  The URL should have the format http://<machinename.domain.blah>/ArcGISUWM/Explorer/ESRI.E2SDK.TrackShapesVB.dll, as shown in the following lines:

       

      <!—DownloadLocation should point….

      ……………………………………  -->


      <DownloadLocation>http://gis.sarup.uwm.edu/ArcGISUWM/Explorer/ESRI.E2SDK.TrackShapesVB.dll</DownloadLocation>

       

       

      1. Save the file.
      2. Close Notepad.
      3. Start ArcGIS Explorer

      Start  by clicking on Start menu Start Menu > All Programs>  ArcGIS >  .

       

      Now users on the local LAN can use the Manage Tasks box in ArcGIS Explorer to navigate to and download it.  Next you will add the task to the ESRI.E2SDK.TrackShapesVB.nmf file.  That way, users of your home server will automatically get this task (if they don’t already have it) when the default map loads.

       

      1. From the Tools menu, choose Manage Tasks



      2. At the bottom of the Manage Tasks dialog box, click .




      3. On the left of the Select a Task dialog box, click .
      4. Navigate to the M:\ArcGISServer\Data\YourLogin folder.


      5. Click ESRI.E2SDK.TrackShapesVB.nmf
      6. Click Open

       

      ArcGIS Explorer reads the .nmf file for the task and uses the DownloadLocation element to locate the URL from which the task (.dll file) can be downloaded.  You are prompted to confirm or cancel the download.

       

      1. Click Download to add the task.


      2. Select TrackShapesVB Custom Task and add it to the list of available tasks in this map.



        Click


      3. Click to close the Manage Tasks dialog box and add the task to the map.
      4. In the Tasks window, click the task (TrackShapesVB) to activate it.




      5. Use one of the tools in the Task Center window to draw a shape on the map (point, line, or polygon).  (Hint: for a line or polygon, click once for each vertex and double-click to complete the shape.) .  After executing, the task displays your feature on the map and adds a record to the Results window.  You will now clear the results of running the task, and save the map again as DefaultMap.nmf.


      6. In the Results window, right-click the results of the Track Shapes task and choose Remove (if you have more than one result, remove them all).

       

      If you save your map as the default map without first removing these results, all users of the home server will see your (saved) results upon starting ArcGIS Explorer.

       

      1. From the menu, choose .
      2. Navigate to the M:\ArcGISServer\Data\YourLogin folder. .
      3. Name the map DefaultMap_YourIntials.nmf
      4. Click
      5. If prompted to overwrite an existing file,



        choose . The task information from the downloaded .dll is not embedded in the DefaultMap.nmf file.  You will now make some configuration changes to control how ArcGIS Explorer appears and behaves to users of your home server.

      Note: these are steps that can be done on your own ArcGIS server. They will not be done in this lab.

      In Windows Explorer, navigate to the \ArcGIS\Explorer\Config folder in the Web root directory of your Web server.

       

      Open the E2Config.xml XML configuration file with Notepad.

       

      E2Config.xml is a configuration file that is used to control settings of your home server.  To see all available configuration elements and their uses, see the Making your system an ArcGIS Explorer home server topic in the ArcGIS Server Help.

       

      Find the AddData element (located on the fourth line).  On this line, delete the word true and type false in its place.   Next, find the DisplayOptions element – located on the eighth line.  Change the value of this element from true to false.  Save the file.  Close Notepad.

      Posted at 12:28 PM by kurtm-a | Category: ArcGIS Explorer | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

      10/29/2007

      UWM SARUP GIS Server as an ArcGIS Explorer Home server

      In this series of steps you will set up the UWM SARUP GIS Server as an ArcGIS Explorer Home server, configure the default map, available functionality, and deploy a custom task.

       

      Note: Your ArcGIS Server will need to have correct ArcGIS Explorer home server files.

       

      We must setup our desktop enviroment - we must look at posting titled "What You Need to do Before You Work with ArcGIS Server"

       

      1. Start  by clicking on Start menu Start Menu > All Programs>  ArcGIS >  .
      1. If prompted to set a home server, arcgis-explorer-connectionHomechoose the option to connect to the ESRI server arcgis-connect-menu
        and click arcgis-explorer-OK. 

      2. The application starts with the default map from ESRI server.

        arcgis-explorer-full

        3.
      3. Click the to activate it.
      4. Use the task to search for your hometown or favorite city.





        Click


      5. In the Results window, expand the results for your search.


      6. When you find the correct match, right-click the record in the Results window and choose Zoom.

      7. Pan and zoom in the map to show the location.

         


      1. In the Contents window, turn on the Boundaries and Places and Transportation layers.

      2. When the map of your choice is complete, click the File menu and choose Save As.


      3. Navigate to the M:\ArcGISServer\Data\YourLogin folder in the root directory of your web server.




      4. In the Filename field, type DefaultMap_yourInitials.nmf as the name of the map.



      5. Close ArcGIS Explorer.

       

      Re-Open  by clicking on Start menu Start Menu > All Programs>  ArcGIS >  .
       
      In ArcGIS Explorer Go to  >
       
       

      You want to have  selected as the option.

       

      Navigate to M:\ArcGISServer\Data\YourLogin

       

       


      Locate  and Click .

       

      You should see the saved map.

       

       

      You should see your Customize Map.  It can shared with other people that have ArcGIS Explorer Installed.

       

      Optional Step: Adding Customized Task for ArcGIS Server Explorer

       

      The steps so far have been to prepare the server machine for clients who wish to point ArcGIS Explorer to your home server. 

       

      Next you will follow the steps that an ArcGIS Explorer user would take in order to point to the server.

       

      In this step, you will change the home server for your installation of ArcGIS Explorer to point to your neighbor’s machine.

       

      1. If it is not already running, Start  by clicking on Start menu Start Menu > All Programs>  ArcGIS >  .
      2. From the menu, choose .
      3. In the dialog box that appears, choose the second option (Connect to the Home Server located at).


      4. Type in the URL of your neighbor’s server, using the format http://<machine name>/<instance name>. 


      5. After providing the URL,

        http://gis.sarup.uwm.edu/arcgisuwm

        click to make sure ArcGIS Explorer can connect to the server.
      6. When you have successfully tested the connection to the new server,



        click to change the home server.


      7. Click to restart ArcGIS Explorer – in order to see the changes in the application after pointing to the new home server you need to restart the application.
      8. Close ArcGIS Explorer and Windows Explorer.

       

      Posted at 4:48 PM by Kurt R Meingast | Category: ArcGIS Explorer | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)