, in the pop-up window, click 
button to draw a rectangle on the map, click "Apply" to complete the scope setting.
Browse and search resources |
As the cloud GIS portal platform, SuperMap iPortal provides resource integration capabilities and search functions for GIS resources, such as: maps, services, scenes, data, insights, dashboards, GPA models, design 3D, projects, Notebook, etc. You can access and browse all kinds of these GIS resources in Resource Center, and use the provided search function to fast locate the GIS resources you need.
On iPortal navigation bar, click "Resource Center" to enter the resource list page; or hover on "Resource Center" tab, then select the displayed items (Map, Service, Data, etc.) in the drop-down list to enter the corresponding sub-resource page.
After entering resource list page, you can browse resources by choosing the preferred view mode, filter your interested resource with category filter and tags filter, favorites filter, or find the newest, hottest resource with the category sort function.
iPortal resource list page supports two view modes: list view and grid view. Additionally, service resource supports preview mode to fast view the services on the map. All these view modes can be switched at any time.
Category Filter means to classify different types of resources according to their sources, types, etc., to fast locate a certain type of resources. iPortal supports classification by sharing scope, resource type, and custom directory.
All resources in iPortal, including maps, services, scenes, data, projects, insights, dashboards, notebook, etc., support filter with sharing scope. The sharing scope of iPortal resources includes:
The service, project resources in iPortal support resource type filtering. On the "Type" area of the left panel of resource list page, you can filter different type of resources.
iPortal supports administrators to customize directories to meet actual application scenarios. When the administrator finished configuring the custom directory for maps, services, senes, data, insights, and apps, the left panel of the corresponding resource page will list each configured custom directory with the specific directory structure. If you want to reorganize the custom directories, or add your new resources to one custom directory, please contact your iPortal administrator.
A tag is the characteristic defined by the owner of the map, service, scene, data, insight, dashboard, project, GPA model, design 3D resources to identify a resource quickly. On the left panel of the resource list page, you can filter resources by clicking the specific tag in the Tags filter.
The administrator can use the resource management function to mark resources (data/maps/services/scenes/insights/dashboards/notebooks/projects/GPA models/design 3D) in the portal as featured resources. Featured resources will carry a featured mark when displayed. When browsing resources in the Resource Center (or App center), you can identify the featured resources by the featured mark or directly open the "featured panel" switch to view the featured resources in the portal.
Users can set resources (data/maps/services/scenes/insights/dashboards/GPA models/design 3D/notebooks/projects) within the portal as favorite resources via resource management, you can view favorite resources via my favorites when browsing resources in the resource center.
Category Sort is to sort resources according to a specific characteristic to make the disordered resource list rule-based, for users to find the target resource clearly and intuitively. On Resource Center pag, the drop-down list includes all the supported sorting field, such as: Modified Time, Visits / Downloads, and both ascending and descending sort are supported, for you to easily find the latest or hottest resource.
iPortal supports the following two ways to perform resource searching to assist you easily and quickly find the needed GIS resources.
In the search box on the left panel of the resource list page, input keywords, such as "china", press Enter on keyboard or click search button on the screen, all the search results that meet the conditions will be listed. You can also use the multiple provided filters by resource browsing to narrow the search results for resource positioning.
Global Search can retrieve resources that match the search conditions in all types of resources in iPortal. Supported search conditions include keywords and geographic scope.
, in the pop-up window, click button to draw a rectangle on the map, click "Apply" to complete the scope setting.You can also combine keywords and geographic scope to achieve a more refined and accurate search. And the global search results also support label filter and category sort to assist you to find the target resource clearly and intuitively.
The global search ability of iPortal is based on the ElasticSearch server. The server address and parameters of the global search server are supported to configure, please refer to: Global Search Configuration.
After retrieving and locating the needed resource, you can access the details of the resource. For the resources you have the view permission, such as maps, scenes, insights, dashboards, you can further open them in the corresponding WebApp; for the resources you don't have the view permission, you can apply the right from the resource owner.
Click the thumbnail of the resource or the "Detail" button of the resource item to enter the resource details page, which includes: meta info and sharing settings.
For service resources with viewing permission, click the "Service Preview" button of the service entry to view the visualization effect of the service. iPortal provides the following preview modes:
For the resources, such as maps, scenes, insights, dashboards, that you have the view or higher permissions, you can view them with the built-in WebApps. For details, see: View resources in WebApp.