Service

Log in to iPortal, click "Resource Center" > "Services" to enter the service resource page, click "Register Service" on the right to enter the registration page, and perform the following operations;

1. Select service type
2. Fill in the service address. See: The supported registered service type and service address format in SuperMap iPortal
3. Fill in the service name
4. To register a protected service, you should check the "Specify Credentials" checkbox and select the matched credential from the drop-down list. If you haven't created the corresponding credential, click Add Credentials at the bottom of the drop-down list to complete the creation process.

5. Specify the storage directory for the service (optional):

   If your administrator has enabled and configured a custom catalog for service resources in the portal, you can add registered services to the custom catalog. It should be noted that the same service can be added to different directory structure trees, but in a directory structure tree, the same service can only be added once.

6. Set the service's meta info:

   iPortal can automatically parse the service's meta-information, such as: tags, description, service reference system (coordinate system and projection type), service identifier (coverage area), service range, service providers, etc., basic information. If some meta-information is not parsed out, you can manually add them. When finish, click "Next";

7. Set sharing settings:

   The default sharing setting is public search, ie., all the iPortal users (includes the anonymous users) can retrieve the service. You can also set to public view -- all the iPortal users (includes the anonymous users can view the service), private -- all others (except the owner) can't retrieve or access, designated departments (department function is disabled by default)-- the members in designated departments can retrieve and access the service, designated groups -- the members in designated groups can retrieve and access the service, or designated users -- besides the owner, the designated users can also retrieve and access the service. For details, see: Share service.

8. Click the "Register" button to finish the service registration.

 

When registering servcie, it will detect whether the service is truly available. If the servcie is not available, registration is not supported. The only difference is that when registering "other" types of service, the servcie online detection can be disabled, which also allows the user to customize the servcie address to be detectd.

The registered service item will be displayed on the Resource Center > Service > My Service page. On the "My Service" page, you can see the service's availability state (the registered services support online/offline dynamic verification, the default update time is 30 minutes. Administrators can modify this configuration item, see: Set update time interval for registered services), view/edit the detailed information, modify the sharing scope, delete the resource, or update service address and meta information.

iPortal also provides SuperMap iServer service batch registration function for the administrators, see: Service batch registration.

Additionally, if the administrator enables the Service Review function (disabled by default), the registered services in iPortal will automatically be in the "Pending Review" state (includes the automatically registered services when published the hosted data as services), and the registration will succeed only when the administrator approves the review. To set sharing settings for an unapproved service will not take effect.

 

Note:

• The same login user is not allowed to register the same service address repeatedly.
• iPortal doesn't support to parse the meta information of WFS2.0.0 and above, WCS1.1.1 and above.
• If the coordinate system in the parsed meta-info appears some abnormal values, such as -1000, that indicates the coordinate system is a user-defined system.

Use the service resources in iPortal

The services (including registered services and hosted services) in iPortal can be used as the data source in built-in WebApps, and can also be called by the user-developed Web GIS system. Specifically:

• In the DataViz WebApp: After choosing the basemap, you can search and add the REST map service and data service in "My services" as layers to the basemap; if you add a REST data service, you can continue to make the thematic map based on the layer.

• In the MapStudio WebApp: After choosing the basemap, you can add SuperMap REST services, OGC WMTS services, and OGC WMS services from the Web and portal as layers to the basemap. If the added layer is from a REST data service, you can create the thematic map based on the layer.

• In the DataInsights WebApp: You can add the REST map service or REST data service, and use maps or charts to display and express the data in the service. And in the map view, you can also use the analysis function to explore the law and value of the data at a deeper level.

• In the iEarth WebApp: You can add the published REST 3D service to the scene as a layer, add point, line, or region features in the scene, or perform measure, query or analysis function, etc.

• In the MapDashboard WebApp, you can use the public data, my data, iServer REST services as the data source of the visual components. For details, see: Add visual components.

• In your Web GIS system, to call the services in iPortal, see: Use iCient JavaScript to call the resources of iPortal.

 

 

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