Archive for August, 2012

Geocortex Viewer for HTML5 1.1 Now Available

August 30th, 2012 by Robert Dubicki

Latitude Geographics is pleased to announce the general availability of the Geocortex Viewer for HTML5 1.1. This product release includes the very latest Geocortex Viewer for HTML5, a Viewer Template Engine (VTE) integration package for Geocortex Essentials, documentation, a Quickstart template project and a set of SDK samples. This is an evolutionary release, offering significant feature enhancements and improvements which build upon core functionality delivered in the initial release. Highlights include:

  • Offline support, with supporting infrastructure for developing custom offline applications, caching operational data and disconnected editing
  • A new layer list, suitable for desktop and mobile use, with configurable layout and behavior options
  • A new results list and table, offering a touch-friendly display of workflow and identify operation results, and configurable behavior on click and long-press events
  • Global search capabilities through an extensible search framework
  • Map feature details, showing attributes, related features, and attachments
  • Viewer interface enhancements, including improved platform support, usability improvements, configurable view groups with tab or drill-down controls, a dedicated geolocation button, and configurable tools and menus
  • Framework binding enhancements, enhanced workflow support, and bug fixes

Please consult the release notes for more detailed information regarding this release. The release may be downloaded by customers with an active maintenance agreement from the Geocortex Support Center. If your account is handled by an authorized Geocortex Reseller, please contact your local representative for access to installers and documentation.

Fall 2012 Geocortex Training Schedule

August 16th, 2012 by Peter Rowand

Geocortex Boy Wonder

We’ve recently completed a complete restructuring of the Geocortex training workshop curriculum, developing new content and materials to ensure a greatly improved learning experience. We’ve also updated our workshop schedule to provide more virtual training sessions in order to accommodate tight travel budgets and to offer greater flexibility for participants across different time zones. We’re really excited about these three new workshops:

Introduction to Geocortex
This half day course provides a basic technical understanding of what you can accomplish using Geocortex, with an emphasis on Geocortex Essentials.
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Getting Started with Geocortex Essentials
This two day course provides a great foundation for building and configuring solutions with Geocortex Essentials.
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Developing Workflows for Geocortex Essentials
Building on Getting Started with Geocortex Essentials, this two day course dives into solving real-world business problems using Geocortex Workflow technology.
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Upcoming Schedule

The full 2012 training schedule, covering dates from September through December, may be found on our website.

New Geocortex Releases: Essentials 3.10, and Viewer for Silverlight 1.6

August 13th, 2012 by Ryan Cooney

Latitude Geographics is pleased to announce the general availability of Geocortex Essentials 3.10 and the Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight 1.6. Highlights include:

Geocortex Essentials 3.10

  • Improved OGC WMS support
  • Addition of WMTS (Web Map Tile Service) support
  • Support for the soon-to-be-announced Advanced OGC Extension for Geocortex Essentials, which will provide rich new OGC-related interaction and capabilities (query, find, and identify support for WMS and WMTS, as well as the ability to query using WFS) to licensees of this optional extension *
  • Fourteen new workflow activities, including direct database queries and new useful conversion activities
  • Support for the upcoming Microsoft .NET 4.5 release
  • Several bug fixes and enhancements
  • Support for Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight 1.6

Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight 1.6

  • Ad hoc query builders (basic and advanced)
  • OGC support enabling additions
  • Custom legend swatches in layer list
  • Resizable data frame
  • In-place attribute editing (in table / grid)
  • Layer list improvements
  • Simplified select all / unselect all results
  • Support for Esri’s API for Silverlight 3.0

Please consult the release notes for more detailed information regarding this release. Installers, release notes and supporting documentation may be downloaded by customers with an active Maintenance Agreement from the Geocortex Support Center. If your account is handled by an authorized Geocortex Reseller, please contact your local representative for access to installers and documentation.

* The Advanced OGC Extension for Geocortex Essentials will be available for general licensing in the coming weeks. Note that all existing and new Geocortex Essentials customers receive basic OGC support as part of the core Geocortex Essentials framework, which allows integration of WMS and WMTS offerings into web mapping applications.