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Ready to Go: Making the Most of Recent Geocortex Product Development

December 13th, 2012 by Peter Rowand

Think of this free 45-minute webinar as a highlight reel of the most noteworthy Geocortex product development that occurred in 2012, with emphasis on technology that is available right now for you to implement at your organization in the coming year.

When:	Wednesday, January 9th 2013 @ 10 AM Pacific Time
Presenters:	Drew Millen (Geocortex Product Manager) and Steven Myhill-Jones (Latitude Geographics President and CEO)

Please register now for this webinar; registration will close on January 7th.

Posted in ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Server 10.1, Cloud, Design, ESRI, Geocortex, Geocortex Essentials, Geocortex Viewer for HTML5, Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight, HTML5, Ideas | 3 Comments »

Geocortex Optimizer 1.6 is Now Available

September 18th, 2012 by Kevin Rintoul

Latitude Geographics is pleased to announce the general availability of Geocortex Optimizer 1.6. This release offers support for ArcGIS Server 10.1, various feature enhancements and significant usability improvements. Highlights include:

Support for ArcGIS Server 10.1, including enhancements to make use of a new REST endpoint in ArcGIS Server for log files to support Esri’s migration from the IIS web server to Apache Tomcat
Support for WMS services. WMS service requests in ArcGIS Server are now logged, and a new WMS Requests line has been added to the Optimizer summary report
Support for Feature Editing operations. Editing requests to feature layers in ArcGIS Server are now logged and reported
Enhancements to scheduled reports functionality: reports may now be saved to a given directory, as well as scheduling reports for email to specified users
Enhancements to the configuration utility, including convenience functions that allow adding map, geocoding and image services on ArcGIS Server to a map service probe
Ability to track users when web mapping applications are accessed through Windows (through Windows username), as well as identifying users logging in through Windows integrated authentication security
Rewritten documentation, usability enhancements, bug fixes, and performance improvements to queries

Please consult the release notes for more detailed information regarding this release. The release may be downloaded by Optimizer 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.

Posted in ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Server 10.1, Geocortex Optimizer, Performance, WMS | 1 Comment »

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.

Posted in ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Server 10.1, Geocortex Essentials, Geocortex Viewer for HTML5, HTML5 | 1 Comment »

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.

Posted in .NET, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Server 10.1, Geocortex Essentials, Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight, New Releases, SQL Server | No Comments »

New Geocortex Release: Essentials 3.9

May 7th, 2012 by Ryan Cooney

We’re pleased to announce the general availability of Geocortex Essentials 3.9

Customers can consult the release notes, and download installers and supporting documentation from the Geocortex Support Center. Highlights of this release include:

Runtime modifications to Forms. The Display Form activity now contains a new child sequence activity that provides access to the Form’s object model, permitting runtime modifications to the form. This enables end users to be presented with different value options based on previous inputs (e.g. if user specifies their location is in “Canada”, they could be offered “Province” values rather than “State” values)
New Workflow activities (14 new and updated)
Compatibility with Esri ArcGIS Server 10.1 pre-release
Installer improvements
Bug fixes

Please contact your Latitude Geographics account representative or local reseller if you have any questions!

Posted in ArcGIS Server, Geocortex, Geocortex Essentials | No Comments »

Introducing the Geocortex Viewer for HTML5

April 9th, 2012 by David Stevenson

Since mid-2011, we’ve been working away, developing our new Geocortex Viewer for HTML5 to serve organizations deploying Esri’s ArcGIS Server technology. I’m happy to announce that version 1.0 is now available.

It’s clear Esri users are excited about exploring how to leverage HTML5 and ArcGIS Server. Because it’s still relatively early in the evolution of the HTML5 standard, we’ve been careful to take an approach that strikes the right balance between delivering powerful functionality today and not overextending what browsers can currently support.

The Geocortex Viewer for HTML5 serves different use cases than our feature-rich web mapping/GIS viewers based on Silverlight and Flex. While its capabilities will grow over time, for the foreseeable future the Geocortex Viewer for HTML5 will serve as a complementary viewer geared towards providing simple, targeted web-mapping applications serving desktop browsers, tablets, and a broad array of mobile devices. It allows you to deliver applications across platforms and devices without having to worry about plugins or building native applications, which is especially applicable to mobile scenarios.

The core framework of the Geocortex Viewer for HTML5 is architected after the Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight (named commands and events, shells, regions, and views, and configuration), and prior Workflows you’ve created should just work.

The Geocortex Viewer for HTML5 has already undergone a number of iterations as part of professional services implementations that started back in October, but version 1.0 is still largely an infrastructure release geared towards workflow-driven mobile apps. Nevertheless, the foundation is all there and we have an aggressive R&D scheduled for the remainder of 2012.

To get started now, Geocortex Essentials customers can download the Geocortex Viewer for HTML5 from the Geocortex Support Center. In addition to documentation and sample code, we’ve also developed a half-day training course; the first is scheduled for May 2^nd.

The online Geocortex User Conference (June 6-7) will also offer sessions on HTML5 strategy and development.

Remember, though HTML5 today delivers when applied in the right ways, it remains an emerging standard. If you want to learn more about HTML5 and Esri technology, including when it might make sense for your organization to get started, be sure to visit www.geocortex.com/html5.

Posted in ArcGIS Server, Conferences, Geocortex, Geocortex Essentials, HTML5, Training, User Conference | 1 Comment »

Now Available: Geocortex Essentials 3.7 and Viewer for Silverlight 1.4

January 27th, 2012 by Peter Rowand

We’re pleased to announce the general availability of Geocortex Essentials 3.7 and Viewer for Silverlight 1.4, continuing our team’s focus on feature and usability enhancements.

Customers can consult the release notes, review a 35-minute video describing new features in further detail, and download the installers in our Geocortex Support Center.

Highlights include:

Geocortex Essentials 3.7

Workflow and Forms
Significant additions/enhancements to including usability enhancements, rich contextual help for activities, 12 new activities, and new form input types.
Layer Themes
Configure sets of related layers into “themes” which can be easily toggled by end users.
Support for simple HTML markup in feature descriptions
Now, feature information can be formatted with images and hyperlinks when displayed in map tips or the results list view.
Bug fixes

Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight 1.4

Usability enhancements
Layer theme support
Support for New HTML tags
in feature descriptions for enhanced display of features in map tips and results list view.
Support for new Workflow activities and Form items
Support for ArcGIS API for Silverlight 2.4
Bug fixes

Please contact your Latitude Geographics account representative or local reseller if you have any questions.

Tags: 1.4, 3.7, download, Essentials, forms, HTML, Release, Silverlight, workflow
Posted in ArcGIS Server, Geocortex, Geocortex Essentials | No Comments »

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.

Posted in ArcGIS Server, Events, General Discussion, Web ADF | 2 Comments »

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/

Posted in ArcGIS Server, ArcIMS, ESRI, Events, Geocortex Essentials, Geocortex IMF, IMF, Web ADF | No Comments »

Scalable, Distributed Architecture for REST-based Applications

November 3rd, 2010 by Drew Millen

We recently announced the release of Geocortex Essentials 3.1. One of the big changes in this release is the introduction of an architecture which will support distributed deployments of the Geocortex Essentials REST API.

To understand this, let’s take a look at the architecture before 3.1:

NOTE: For simplicity, the relationship with ArcGIS Server is not described in this diagram.

Notice how multiple client applications (such as the Geocortex Viewer for Flex and the Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight) connect to the Geocortex Essentials REST API. From the REST API they learn about the configuration of the site structure that should be used, and they can access server side functionality such as hi-resolution, large-format printing and reporting. The Geocortex Essentials REST API is responsible for managing the content in the Sites Directory.

Now let’s take a look at how things have changed with the introduction of the distributed architecture in Geocortex Essentials 3.1:

Geocortex Essentials now has a new component called Geocortex Application Services. The application services live within Geocortex Agent, which is windows service (the same Geocortex Agent that gets installed with Geocortex Optimizer). Application Services introduces a centralized mechanism to deal with authentication and user management, security tokens, and access to storage (for example, reading/writing site configuration files or print templates).

By creating Application Services and externalizing these functions from the Geocortex Essentials REST API, we can improve the performance of systems under heavy load by distributing the REST APIs across multiple servers. Think cloud deployment: when your application is under heavy load you can respond by standing up more instances of the REST API behind a load balancer.

Having the Application Services centralized means that you only have to configure your sites and security in one single location.

Posted in .NET, ArcGIS Server, General Discussion, Geocortex Essentials | 2 Comments »

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