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Now Available: Geocortex Essentials 3.13

February 28th, 2013 by Drew Millen

Product Announcement

Geocortex Essentials 3.13 now available, enables more complete internationalization

Latitude Geographics is pleased to announce the general availability of Geocortex Essentials 3.13. This product release introduces expanded and simplified internationalization, numerous additional workflow activities, and more.

Key additions:

  • Geocortex Essentials Manager can now be localized to support languages other than English
  • Numerous new and updated Workflow activities
  • Bug fixes and some other minor enhancements

Please consult the release notes for more detailed information.

Installers, release notes and supporting documentation may be downloaded by licensees 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.

Winter 2013 Geocortex Training Schedule

December 27th, 2012 by Peter Rowand

Geocortex Boy Wonder

Geocortex Training helps you acquire the knowledge you need to make the most of your investment in Geocortex technology. We’ve recently developed new content and materials to ensure a greatly improved learning experience.

The new 2013 training schedule helps accommodate tight travel budgets and offers greater flexibility for participants across different time zones.

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. Learn More

Getting Started with Geocortex Essentials
This two day course provides a great foundation for building and configuring solutions with Geocortex Essentials. Learn More

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. Learn More

Upcoming Schedule

January and February workshop dates, along with more information and registration links, may be found on our Geocortex website.

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

December 13th, 2012 by Peter Rowand

Webinar

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.

Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight 1.5.2 Released

June 5th, 2012 by Ryan Cooney

Update: Latitude Geographics has just released the Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight version 1.5.2, containing an important fix to a bug found in the Viewer 1.5.1 release. Please consult the release notes (found in the “Downloads” section of the Support Center) for information in the specific bug; more information on the Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight version 1.5.1 release is in the May 29 blog post.

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!

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 2nd.

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.

New Geocortex Releases: Essentials 3.8 and Viewer for Silverlight 1.5

March 22nd, 2012 by Peter Rowand

We’re pleased to announce the general availability of Geocortex Essentials 3.8 and the Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight 1.5.

Customers can consult the release notes, and download installers and supporting documentation from the Geocortex Support Center; we’ve also created a series of short videos for our customers describing new features in further detail.

Highlights of these releases include:

Geocortex Essentials 3.8

  • Search related data (searchable datalinks). This allows administrators to configure searches against external (non-spatial) database tables, and associate the results with spatial features
  • Support for ArcGIS Server Tables and Relationships
  • 18 new workflow activities, including feature editing, linear referencing, collections and dictionary utilities, and datatable conversion activities
  • Interval refresh for map services: allowing automatic refresh of data if changes to the data source are frequent
  • Feature Highlight color configuration: set different colors for different layers
  • Support for Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight 1.5

Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight 1.5

  • Support for new Geocortex Essentials 3.8 features, including searchable datalinks, ArcGIS Server Tables and Relationships, and new workflow activites
  • A new help and tutorial framework: designed for end-users to learn GIS concepts and work effectively with the user interface. This also provides a framework for application designers to “plug-in” custom help content
  • Support for ArcGIS Server Feature Attachments. If your data has feature attachments (such as .XLSX, .DOCX or .PDF files), you can now access them through the Viewer

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

Geocortex Code Gallery is Now Available

February 2nd, 2012 by Alex McKeachie

We’re pleased to announce the launch of the Geocortex Code Gallery. The Geocortex Code Gallery is an area of the Geocortex Support Center where the community can share code snippets, sample applications, workflows and other user-generated content.

The Geocortex support team has included a small nucleus of content to kick-start the gallery, but the expectation is that most content will come from Geocortex customers, implementers, and business partners.

The Geocortex Code Gallery is as a place where you can show off your work and view real-world solutions developed by other community members. We encourage everyone to submit reusable code, discuss the existing samples, and work together to improve the quality of this resource. If you find something in the code gallery that you can improve upon, or add functionality to, please submit your contribution while acknowledging the original author.

Last week we silently enabled the code gallery with a “beta” tag. We will consider it to be in “beta” for the time being as we may make changes or adjustments as we monitor its adoption by the community. Our hope is that it will quickly become an integral part of our Support Center and a valuable resource.

Please think about what you may want to contribute, and give us any feedback that you have!

-Alex McKeachie
Geocortex Support Manager

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.

 

The first Geocortex user group

September 15th, 2008 by Darin Herle

Our customers and partners have long asked us to kickstart Geocortex user groups where there were a concentration of users around them. A combination of busyness (building the technology) and platform penetration have hindered this before, but no longer…

We (and more importantly, our users) are pleased to announce the first Geocortex user group – California. The Golden State is home to the largest pool of Geocortex users anywhere, and based on ongoing interest, its time to bring them together.

Our first meeting is scheduled for Thursday October 16, 2008 in Los Angeles, and Los Angeles County has generously offered to host this event. So far, our draft agenda includes introductions, a “Geocortex Technology Update” section (courtesy of me!), user presentations, Q&A and more.

If you’re a customer or partner and think you should be home to user group #2, contact your account manager!

For more information about the California User Group, please contact me. Hope to see you there.