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Announcement: General Release of Geocortex Essentials 3.6

December 12th, 2011 by Peter Rowand

Geocortex Essentials 3.6 is now available. This release focuses on improvements to the technical infrastructure underlying Geocortex Essentials.

Highlights:

  • 64-bit Support
    Geocortex Essentials 3.6 now supports x64 and IIS Integrated Pipeline deployments.
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Certified
    This certification demonstrates that Geocortex Essentials 3.6 has met Microsoft’s highest standards for stability, security, reliability, availability, Windows fundamentals, and platform compatibility. This certification is part of our ongoing commitment to the Microsoft Gold Partner program.
  • Web ADF and REST Elements Now Separate
    Geocortex Essentials REST Elements and Web ADF Elements are released independently. The 3.6.X branch of Essentials will contain REST Elements only. Future releases of the 3.5.X branch will contain Web ADF Elements.
  • Updated Workflow Documentation
    This release includes a draft version of new documentation surrounding workflow functionality. While still in draft form, this will nonetheless be very useful to gain a better understanding in how to set up and use Geocortex Workflow to its fullest.
  • Minor Bug Fixes and Enhancements
    This includes user interface, performance and workflow improvements as well as several bug fixes.

Please consult the release notes (found on our Support Center with the download) for further information.

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Upcoming Webinars

December 1st, 2011 by Robert Dubicki

 

 

Webinar: Migrating from Web ADF to RESTful Technology

>> December 20, 2011 10 AM PDT

Given Esri’s deprecation of Web ADF, many organizations are in the process of devising migration strategies to shift to Esri’s RESTful web-based mapping platform. In this 30-minute webinar, we’ll explore strategies and best practices to help ensure smooth, efficient transitions.

If you are planning to migrate Web ADF applications, this is an ideal time to rethink how your web-based mapping applications are designed, developed and maintained in order to gain efficiencies and improve productivity moving forward.

This free Webinar will be of interest to GIS administrators, GIS managers and analysts currently using Web ADF who are involved in planning for the transition to ArcGIS for Server using a RESTful approach.  The presentation will take about 30 Minutes, but please allow for an additional 15 minutes for Q&A.

Register Here

 

Webinar: HTML5 and Esri-based Web Mapping

>> February 1, 2012 10 AM PDT

With the steady growth in smart mobile devices and with every modern web browser now supporting HTML5, the adoption of HTML5 for web-based mapping is clearly on the rise.  This 30-minute webinar will provide an overview of HTML5 for generalists, theorize on likely timelines around adoption, and provide information to help you ensure that your organization is positioned to embrace this important standard at the right time.

It may still be a year or more before browser support for the HTML5 standard enables wide-spread adoption, and until then, a pragmatic approach works best. But don’t let that hold you back! Even today, HTML5 offers the opportunity for building platform agnostic mobile applications and solving real-world problems and we will show some examples using the forthcoming Geocortex Viewer for HTML5.

 This free Webinar will be of interest to GIS administrators, GIS managers and analysts currently using Esri’s ArcGIS Server platform. The presentation will take about 30 Minutes, but please allow for an additional 15 minutes for Q&A.

 Register Here

 

Dec. 5, 2011 –  Some small edits have been made to the original post.

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Geocortex Essentials Flex API (2.4)

November 28th, 2011 by Robert Dubicki

A new version of the Geocortex Essentials Flex API is now available. Highlights include:

  • Support for Forms 1.0
  • Export Map
  • Support for new workflow activities: SetLayerDefinition, SetLayerVisibility, Report, GetMapExtent, Geoprocessing
  • Support for ESRI Flex API 2.4

Licensees can download the Geocortex Essentials Flex API 2.4 from the Geocortex Support Center.

 

 

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Geocortex Essentials 3.5.1 Now Available

November 16th, 2011 by Ryan Cooney

A new maintenance release of Geocortex Essentials is now available. This is a maintenance release focused on quality improvements rather than the introduction of new features. Some of the most notable issues resolved are related to printing errors and other inconsistencies. We encourage our customers to consult the release notes (found on our Support Center with the download) for more detailed information describing the specific issues that are addressed in this maintenance release.

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Updates to the Fall 2011 Geocortex Training Schedule

October 4th, 2011 by Alex McKeachie

Geocortex Training helps you acquire the knowledge needed to make the most of your investment in Geocortex Essentials.

We have now added an additional Virtual training session in October. Our training schedule is now as follows:

More Info San Antonio, TX Oct. 4-6, 2011
More Info Virtual Classroom Oct. 18-20
More Info Renton, WA Oct. 25-27
More Info Charlotte, NC Nov. 8-10
More Info Virtual Classroom Nov. 14-16
More Info Denver, CO Nov. 29-Dec. 1
More Info Los Angeles, CA Dec. 6-8

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Release of Geocortex Essentials 3.5 and the Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight 1.3

September 29th, 2011 by Peter Rowand

We are pleased to announce that Geocortex Essentials 3.5 and the Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight 1.3 are now generally available for customers. These integrated releases provide administrators and end-users with many new features and enhancements, including:

  • Extract Feature Data (“clip, zip and ship”) enables users to extract spatial data from layers within a defined map region, and export to common GIS formats. Once a file is created, it can be easily emailed and shared.
  • Support for GeoRSS data sources is now available, allowing users to add this popular data feed format through Geocortex Manager and interact with the layer within the viewer.
  • Users are able to dynamically add cached and dynamic layers to their viewer sessions, to be used in subsequent search, identify and print operations.
  • Performance improvements in managing sites with large numbers of layers and reducing viewer startup time of the Viewer.

The latest release of Geocortex Essentials is available for download from the Geocortex Support Center http://support.geocortex.com.

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Migrating from Esri ArcIMS to ArcGIS for Server

September 28th, 2011 by Peter Rowand

A frequent discussion topic between Latitude Geographics team members and our customers is the Esri release plans for ArcGIS for Server 10.1, and Esri’s plans to deprecate ArcIMS (details at the Esri blog).

On October 12, we will be providing a free webinar to provide guidance on migrating from ArcIMS to ArcGIS for Server. We will also demonstrate an approach that can help accelerate this migration by gaining efficiencies in the design, development and maintenance of web-based mapping applications.

Interested? The event is filling rapidly. More information and registration is available at: http://www.geocortex.com/events-training/webinars/arcims-arcgis-migration/

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Discussion Forum Superheroes

September 22nd, 2011 by Alex McKeachie


Discussion Forum Superheroes

As part of our new and improved Geocortex Support Center launch last April, we challenged forum members to participate in our Discussion Forums to share knowledge and help build a strong, vibrant user community. We established prizes to acknowledge key contributors in a tangible way by offering $1000 (MVP) and $500 (runner-up) in support/training/services credits to the two community members that we deemed most helpful to their peers between the launch and September 1st. 

Bravo to our MVPs

We’ve gone through the stats and the Geocortex Support Team has cast their votes. Congratulations to Gareth Finney, our MVP and winner of the $1000 prize. Coming in not far behind, a thank-you to Sonia Dickerson, who has also been a big contributor and has been selected for the $500 prize. Special thanks to you both for actively contributing valuable knowledge to the discussion forums! 

Gareth Finney (MVP) - Spatial Consultant - Department of Sustainability and Environment - Melbourne, Australia

Sonia Dickerson (MVP Runner-Up) - EGIS Developer - Minnesota Department of Transportation

Although Gareth and Sonia are being specifically acknowledged, we’d like to thank everyone who has been contributing to the Geocortex Discussion Forums. We’re really starting to see an awesome community of Geocortex users helping one another succeed with web-based mapping emerge. Together we can continue to build a great resource for people to help each other find answers for common questions and overcome roadblocks.

But let’s keep the conversations going!

We are pleased to announce that we are offering a second challenge round which will run from September 14, 2011 to February 14, 2012.

We are offering the same prize options as before and will use the same participation criteria to recognize super achievers. Please review the original Announcement in the Discussion Forums for background information. We hope this additional incentive will allow the superpowers lurking in everyone to shine through. Winners will be announced shortly after Valentine’s Day 2012.

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Geocortex in the UK, Ireland & Denmark

September 16th, 2011 by John Austin

Latitude is working more and more with distributors to represent and implement our Geocortex technology overseas (we actually hosted our Geocortex Business Partner Summit in Victoria last week – it’s always great to get together in person). As part of this strategy I’m pleased to welcome two new distributors in Europe.

1Spatial is now the Geocortex reseller for  the United Kingdom and Ireland. 1Spatial has been serving public and private sector clients for more than 40 years, and as they continue to build out a practice helping organizations that make extensive use of Esri technology, they determined that Geocortex can help Esri clients achieve their objectives in a unique and compelling way. And we determined they get it, and are good at what they do.

Informi GIS A/S is now the Geocortex reseller in The Kingdom of Denmark. Informi is also Esri’s official distributor in Denmark, and like other Esri distributors who resell Geocortex technology, they determined that Geocortex technology is complementary to Esri’s core ArcGIS Server offerings. I had the opportunity to visit their offices in Copenhagen last January; they’re a great group of people with a top-notch reputation.

You can read more about our business partners here. 1Spatial and Informi will undoubtedly do some excellent work in the months and years ahead to introduce Geocortex technology to people in their countries, and it’s a pleasure to have this opportunity to work side by side.

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Geocortex Essentials 3.4.2 Now Available

September 1st, 2011 by Ryan Cooney

We are pleased to announce that Geocortex Essentials 3.4.2 is now generally available to customers.

This is a maintenance release to address some known issues in the product. In addition to our regular bug fixes we’ve paid particular attention to REST endpoint performance and improved support for secured ArcGIS Server services.

Geocortex customers can visit the Geocortex Support Center to download this update and product release notes.

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