Integrating Geocortex Essentials with ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise portal

[Music] hi my name is drew I'm the chief technology officer and in this tech tip we're going to explore how geo cortex essentials can be used alongside ArcGIS online or your ArcGIS Enterprise Portal so let's dive in so I think we'll start with some context surrounding how to connect geo cortex essentials to the ArcGIS platform for many years our customers have been able to connect your cortex essentials directly with our j/s server public services can be connected to directly or we can use token or windows authentication to connect geo cortex essential sites to ArcGIS server map services feature services tiled services and other types and then applications produced by geo cortex essentials can also connect to ArcGIS server through that same authentication method rgeous online portal introduced web maps and that's really the central currency as part of an web GIS deployed using the ArcGIS platform when we use geo Aquatics essentials with artists' enterprise or ArcGIS online web maps become an intrinsic part of this equation here we can see multiple users or groups of users signing in to a portal now this could be ArcGIS online or an ArcGIS enterprise portal and they're using their ArcGIS identity to do so and then they can create web maps inside of this organization those web maps can be shared and used within apps like operations dashboard collector or web app builder based applications so that other users can use those apps that consume the web maps if we had geo cortex essentials to this picture users can sign in with the exact same ArcGIS identity that belongs to their portal or ArcGIS online org then when we author a site the identities credentials are used to fetch content like the web map so the very same web maps can be referenced inside of a geo cortex essentials site then apps created out of geo critics essentials can be shared back in that portal increasing the use of GIS throughout the organization let's have a look at this pattern in practice here's a web map that I want to use in a geo cortex descent application that contains store locations and it's stored inside of my ArcGIS online organization therefore I'm gonna sign in to geo cortex essentials using my ArcGIS online account once I've signed in and brought to a list of sites that I'm able to manage this time I want to add a new site I'll give it this display name stores and I'm gonna reference a web map from ArcGIS online to create my application now I can search the public database for content or I can hit this check box and refine the search results to only the web maps that are inside my organization here's that web map I was looking at a second ago notice this lock icon indicates that this web map isn't shared with everyone that means and the users of my application are going to have to sign in with their arch s identity to access this app geo cortex essentials makes a reference to the web map and understands all of the content within it so it has an understanding of all of the map services and layers that are used within this web map and now I can start to author my application within geo cortex essentials manager let's add a viewer to this application using our html5 viewer template and without making any configuration changes let's launch this in a new browser window now transparently and behind the scenes I was signed into this application in the top right corner you can see that I can signed out and that I'm currently signed in using my ArcGIS online account the reason I was signed in is because the web map inside this application is protected so if I sign out I'm prompted to sign in using my ArcGIS identity if that web map is shared and made available to everyone the end user is not required to sign in using an ArcGIS identity or otherwise now that I've built an application I can publish this back into my ArcGIS online organization and share it with other users or make it one of my favorites notice that this has been given an item ID and if I click on this link I'm brought to my ArcGIS online org where I've got my store's application clicking on this will simply launch my application for now I'll simply add it to my favorites so if I go into my content and then click on favorites there's the store's application that I just published from geo cortex essentials so you can see this pattern in action using geo cortex essentials to build applications share them back inside of your ArcGIS online organization or inside your portal so that they can be used by more users geo cortex essentials 5-series applications also integrate with ArcGIS enterprise and ArcGIS online here we can see three example applications printing workflow and reporting and an ArcGIS identity is used to sign in to the design experience of these apps once we've signed in we can create content in the form of items with geo critics workflow for example the item type is a workflow and with geo cortex reporting 5 the item type is a report template these items are stored inside of the ArcGIS online organization or within the ArcGIS Enterprise Portal alongside apps and web Maps and other types of content those items can be used by geo cortex apps or within web app builder for arcgis apps so that more geo cortex content can be shared with other users within the organization now let's explore this pattern [Music] I'm gonna sign in to Geo cortex workflow [Music] and I'm using my ArcGIS identity to sign in so that I can restore a workflow that I created earlier in the file menu I can browse all of my workflows that I've authored workflows that have been shared with me or if I have the URL to a workflow the item ID and the URL to my ArcGIS online organization I can open it that way the workflow I'm looking for is one that I worked on recently this workflow is called store finder and it does just that it allows the user to search for stores inside of the map so I've got a search form prompting the user to select from a list of store types and once they've select a store type if they click search we're going to query the stores layer based on the center type that the user selected then we're going to get the extent of the results set the map to extent and then simply display the results in a list it's a pretty simple workflow if I go to the info tab you can see that this workflow is stored inside of my ArcGIS online organization and it has an item ID I've named my workflow store Finder and it's got a unique URL used to discover it now if I sign into web app builder using the same ArcGIS identity I can access that workflow let's go to the widget tab in the authoring tool and add a new widget to my application I'll use the workflow widget which I've installed earlier and I'm allowed to browse for any workflow in my organization I can look for my content my organization groups and even public workflows using the keyword search store finder I was able to discover the workflow I authored earlier now I'm just running through the workflow inside of my web app builder designer experience let's look for all strip malls on this map you can see that the results are highlighted and then the workflow displays an item picker allowing me to hover on each result and show the corresponding record on the map that's an example of how geo predicts workflow 5 was used to integrate with an ArcGIS online organization by storing an item and consuming it inside of a web app builder for our GIS app the idea here is that you can deploy geo Cortex alongside other art jeaious applications that you have that are also consuming web Maps collector operations dashboard and web app builder can all be used alongside geo cortex essentials we've built Geo cortex essentials to allow our customers to enable technology change whether you've been building directly against ArcGIS server or you've started to work with ArcGIS online or ArcGIS Enterprise geo cortex essentials has technology for you to integrate with the entire ArcGIS platform thanks for watching this short tech tip I hope you learned something today bye for now [Music]

Channel: Geocortex

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Keywords: Geocortex, GIS, ArcGIS, Esri, web maps, web mapping, geospatial, Geocortex Essentials

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Length: 9min 31sec (571 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 19 2018