Managing iDataInsights

SuperMap iPortal provides administrators with the following DataInsights management functions:

• Create insights: Create insight projects for data visualization and spatial analysis.
• Manage insights: Manage all the insight projects created in iPortal (view, edit, retrieve, delete, modify the sharing scope, set as featured).

Log in to iPortal as an administrator, click Management> Resources Management> DataInsights, then you can uniformly manage all the Insights created by different users.

Create insights

On the DataInsights management page, click the Create Insights button to enter the DataInsights WebApp page. You can upload local data files, choose one or more data from Sample Data, choose data from My Data, or chose one service from My Services, then perform visualization operations such as charts analysis, spatial analysis, etc.

Manage insights

View/Edit basic insight Infos

Click one specified insight, the detailed info page will appear, click the "Edit Attributes" button at the right bottom page, you can replace the thumbnail and edit the insight project name, tags and description.

Rename insights

You can rename a insights name. Move the mouse to the target insights name, click the button that appears, the insights name will be in the editing state. After editing, click any blank position to exit the editing operation.

Delete insights

Check one or multiple insights and click the "Delete" button to remove the items you don't need anymore.

Search insights

Search the insight you want to find by inputting the insight name or owner in the input box on the right bottom page.

Modify the sharing scope of insights

On the DataInsights management page, check one or more insights, and click the "Share" button to modify the sharing permissions of insights in batches. The supported sharing scopes include:

• Private: Only the author and portal administrator can retrieve, view, delete, and edit insight information.
• Public: Including three options: All users (including anonymous users) can search, All users (including anonymous users) can view, All login users can edit.
• Designated Department: Allow members of the designated department to search, view, and edit. You can specify that members under one or more departments can search, view, and edit. By default, sharing with department function is disabled; to enable sharing with department, the administrator needs to configure it in the iportal.xml configuration file.

• Designated groups: Allow members of the designated groups to search, and view. You can specify that members under one or more groups can search, and view.
• Designated User: Allow designated users to search, view, and edit. You can add one or more users to the "Selected Users" list. Users in the "Selected Users" list have retrieval permissions by default, and you can manually check the viewing or editing permissions.

If you have selected multiple insights with the same authorized sharing scope, when you click "Share", you can view their current sharing scopes; if the sharing scopes are different, you cannot view them, but you can still authorize the selected insights in bulk. After authorization, these insights have the same sharing scope.

Set as featured insights

On the DataInsights management page, click the button in the "Set as Featured" column to mark the corresponding insight as a Featured insight. When displaying featured insights in the Resource Center, it will carry the corresponding featured logos, so that portal members can quickly access the featured resources. Note: Insight resources with private permissions can't be set as featured resources.