Geocortex Blog

In my inbox today from ESRI:

“An issue has been found with some uses of non-English Unicode data within the personal geodatabase when upgrading to ArcGIS 10. In some cases, the use of non-English Unicode characters in object names in the geodatabase are corrupted when the personal geodatabase (access file) is upgraded to an ArcGIS 10 geodatabase. This error corrupts the source data and is nonrecoverable. Further details and workarounds are provided in knowledge base article 38149.

A software patch is available for this issue. Download now.”

The recent release of Geocortex Essentials includes a major new development called Workflow.  Using workflow, administrators model their business processes by chaining together small units of work called “activities”. Built on Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation, Geocortex Essentials workflow allows administrators and application developers to build smart, successful systems that reduce the cost of getting things done.

Last week we updated the Geocortex Resource Center (http://resources.geocortex.com) with a huge amount of documentation supporting this new technology.  If you are a developer working with Geocortex Essentials 3.0, you’ll definitely want to take a look at the new workflow samples included in each of the APIs (JavaScript, Flex and Silverlight).  The samples will teach you the concepts you need to build workflow-based features or applications.

The REST API documentation has also received an upgrade and includes information about how Workflows are published on the server.

Finally, we’ve also released the help system for the desktop Geocortex Workflow Designer application.  In the downloads section of our Support Center, you will find a ZIP file containing this documentation, and a README file which describes how to deploy it so it may be launched from within Geocortex Workflow Designer.

Well, after a decade in historic Market Square and months of renovations to our new space, Latitude Geographics is in the process of being dismantled and moved from our motley assortment of current offices (seven in total over two floors!) to a much larger, unified space (all in one office) a few blocks away. For us, it’s a functional upgrade… not a vanity upgrade. It also happens to be a lovely space that I anticipate will accommodate future growth nicely. And like Market Square, it’s historic; it’s built around the original Fort Victoria well from which everyone drew their water long ago.

The last time I moved Latitude it was into Market Square from the small apartment I was living in during university. In other words, last time I had to move a workstation and desk. This, time it’s a different sort of endeavor–thankfully I have a team of folks who’ve led the charge coordinating moving the 55 of us.

As I write this, there is a hurricane of activity around me as furniture is being dismantled and carted away by movers. I have the use of my office a little longer because my trusty (others have less fawning words for it) $35 government surplus desk isn’t making the move with me.

Anyway, before I get all nostalgic on you, we’ve got a new address. Here it is:

200–1117 Wharf Street
Victoria, BC Canada V8W 1T7

We’ll post some photos of the new space once we’re moved in!

Late last week, our viewer team released the second iteration of the Geocortex Sample Flex Viewer (“GSFV”).  Although there remains some formal productization work for the GSFV, at version 2.0 the viewer has evolved well beyond our original vision of a “stopgap” viewer.   There’s been lots of traction on the initial release, and this release incorporates to some great feedback.  GSFV 2.0 uses Flex 4, and works with the ArcGIS API for Flex 2.0, and the Geocortex Essentials Flex API 2.0.

Among the architectural changes for the future, we have also made a few styling updates including some polish to the look and feel and functionality.

We encourage you to build applications using the GSFV 2.0 in anticipation of shifting to the fully productized Geocortex Viewer for Flex when it is available later this year.