Maps in GIS portal sections
A GIS portal section points to an in-application web page that contains a GIS map. The GIS map is associated to a GIS map record that defines the data to render.
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When a user signs in to the application, the URL is called to load the web page that contains the map. Based on the map that is defined in the URL parameter, a list of executable reports is returned. The first report in that list runs, and the results are returned to the map.
Reports can be metric queries or standard queries. The reports define what a user sees in the bubble markers for the locations or features. The queries also populate the table of data in the viewer. There is a one-to-one correlation between the bubble markers on the map and the data in the table. The table contains the same fields that the bubble marker contains because the source data for both is the same report.
With map widgets, the user can pan or zoom or find locations. The user can also create and edit features on the map and assign those features to an IBM® TRIRIGA® object.
The pinpoints on the map show the locations that are returned from the query. Each location has a bubble marker (hover text) that displays information that is related to the location. If the query is a metric query, the bubble markers display the metric results. The colors of the location pinpoint icons match the thresholds that are represented by the metric results. If the query is a standard query, the location pinpoint icons are colored blue. The default colors are blue, red, green, and yellow. You can use your own icons to represent the location pinpoints on the map.
The query that is associated to the map in a portal section does not affect or react to any other data on the portal. GIS is a stand-alone application inside of a portal section.
A GIS section includes a Save Preferences button. This feature saves the current map extent and view. The next time the user signs in, the saved settings override the default in the URL parameter of the portal section URL. If the user did not save preferences, the section shows the default view as defined in the URL parameter string. The user preferences are stored per user, per map. When the user changes to a different map, the preferences for the original map are not applied to the second map. Instead, the second map is displayed with the default settings for that map, unless the user previously saved preferences for the second map.