SuperMap iPortal provides the resource sharing function. You can perform sharing settings when you create a resource for the first time, or you can modify the sharing settings for created resources in 'Resource Center > My Resources'. In addition, administrators with resource management rights can manage the resources of all users and modify their sharing settings. For more details, please see: Resource Management.
The resource sharing scope includes private, public (public search/view/edit) and designated (can specify departments, groups and users to searchview/edit), where designated (departments, groups and users) can be configured by the administrator in the iportal.xml configuration file. For example, if the administrator has not enabled sharing to departments, you will not see the designated department option when sharing resources.
- Private: Only the author and the administrator who has resource management rights are allowed to view/edit/delete the resource, view/edit the resource details, and change the share setting. The default sharing scope is private.
- Public Search: All users (including anonymous users) can search and view resource details, but cannot view the resource. The shared user needs to apply for resource authorization for view permission.
- When sharing public search permission, you can also share the view permission with designated departments/groups/users.
- Public view/download: All users (including anonymous users) can view the resource and its details.
- If the resource is Hosted data, the sharing scope supports public download.
- If the resource type is Notebook, shared users can only view the resources and details, but cannot run code (requires edit permissions).
- If the resource type is Map, Insights, Scene, Mapdashboard, or Notebook, based on the public view permission, you can assign the edit permission to designated departments, groups, and users at the same time. For example, all users can view a beautiful landscape halo map, but only the designated team can create and edit it.
- Public edit: all logged-in users can edit the resource and its details. Supported resource types include Map, Insight, Scene, MapDashboard, Notebook.
- Designated:
- The designated one can be a department, a group, or a user. Permissions include view (supported resource types: Data, Service, Map, Insights, Scene, MapDashborad, Notebooks), edit (supported resource types: Map, Insight, Scene, MapDashborad, Notebook), and download (supported resource type: Data).
- When choosing "Designated", only designated department/group/user can view shared resources with corresponding permissions in "Resource Center > Public / Shared with me / My Organization / My Group".
- The designated department option requires that the administrator has enabled the organizational structure (disabled by default) and turned on sharing to department configuration in the iportal.xml configuration file (turned off by default).
- The designated group option requires that you have joined at least one group (either as a group creator or a group member) and have permission to contribute resources. That means only groups to which you have permission to contribute resources will be listed. For more information about creating, joining and using groups, please see: Use group. Meanwhile, the administrator needs to turn on the Share to Group configuration in the iportal.xml configuration file (turned on by default).
- The designated user option requires that the administrator turns on the Share to User configuration in the iportal.xml configuration file (turned on by default). The administrator can also configure in the iportal.xml configuration file whether to list all users when sharing to designated users. If the number of users is large, the administrator can also set the search mode to fuzzy match in the iportal.xml configuration file to improve the efficiency of the search.
- If the service is set "designated view" permission, you can limit the accessible spatial extent at a finer level of granularity.
Once you have set sharing settings, the users can view the shared resource from "Resource Center > Public / Shared with Me / My Organization / My Group" to see the shared resources. Private resources can only be viewed from "My Resources".
Note: If your maps, insights, or mapdashboards contain associated resources whose sharing permissions do not match, you will also need to choose whether to update the sharing permissions for these resources simultaneously when setting up sharing.