Data Spaces pane

The dockable Data Spaces pane is where you can manage your data spaces, stage layers for publication, and view the progress of the publication process.

At the top, you will currently only find the Content tab. In a future release, a Search tab will be added here as well, which allows you to search your data spaces (i.e. its catalog service).

Just below the Content tab, you will see one or more data spaces that you have configured. If no data spaces have been configured, GeoCat Bridge will mention that here and refer you to the Settings to fix that.

Clicking on a data space button will activate it, which means that:

• All publication actions will then take place in the context of the active data space.
• The Content tab will be populated with the available workspaces in that data space, if a GeoServer map service was configured.

Content tab

The Content tab operates within the context of the active data space.

Only if your data space has been configured with a GeoServer map service, you will get to see a workspace selector here.
Otherwise, you will see an empty panel, and your data space will essentially be "read-only" (i.e. you cannot publish to it).

 

 

 

Active Workspace selector

If you have selected an active data space that has been configured with a GeoServer connection, you should see an Active workspace selector (dropdown) that allows you to select the GeoServer target workspace to browse through or publish to.

Changing the Active workspace will automatically reload its contents displayed below it.
The following GeoServer item types can be listed:

• Layers (in ascending order)
• Layer Groups (in ascending order, and all child layers in particular order)
• Styles (in ascending order)

Did you know?

You can add GeoServer (group) WMS layers to your map by clicking the right mouse button on the layer in the tree view of the active workspace, and selecting Add to map from the context menu.

To the right of the Active workspace selector, you will see 3 buttons:

 Refresh button Add Workspace button Delete Workspace button

This button can be used to force-reload the workspace contents from GeoServer.

In most cases, you don't need to click this button, as contents are auto-refreshed regularly. However, if you notice that the contents are outdated, you can use this button to force a refresh.

Clicking this button will pop up a dialog to add a new workspace to the GeoServer node of the active data space.

In the dialog, you can specify the name of your new workspace. Optionally, you can also set the namespace URI for the workspace, or mark it as isolated.

This button can be used to delete the selected active workspace from GeoServer. Please note that this action cannot be undone, and that all data in the workspace will be purged. However, GeoCat Bridge will first ask you to confirm the deletion.

Workspace behavior and licensing

If you are running the Community Edition, you cannot add or delete workspaces in the your own data spaces, and the respective buttons will be disabled.

You should be able though to add a new workspace in a GeoCat Live Demo data space, but you still cannot delete it.
Note that if you make a mistake, you can always overwrite layers and your data will also be automatically removed each night.

Publisher pane

The Publisher pane is a sub-panel of the Content tab, because it is only visible when:

1. You clicked one of the Publish buttons on the GeoCat Bridge tab, so you can stage the layers that you want to publish.
2. A publication process is running.
3. A publication process has finished, and you want to view the results.

Once you close the Publisher pane, you can only reopen it by clicking one of the Publish buttons again.

Layer Staging

Before you start publishing, you may still wish to change the target workspace, or change the items that you want to publish. This is the purpose of the staging phase.

You also see an overview here of all the layer that will be published. There may be "unpublishable" layers (e.g. invisible, wrong layer type, etc.).

In some cases, e.g. when publishing individual layers instead of a whole workspace, you may override the items that you wish to publish. For example, you can disable the automatic creation of group layers by deselecting the checkbox.

Tip

When you are publishing a whole map as a workspace using the Publish Map button, it is possible to skip the layer staging phase, and start publishing immediately.

You can adjust this behavior in the Options section of the configuration.

Publish Progress

Once the publication has been started by clicking the Publish button in the staging panel, you will see a Please wait... cursor at the top and a progress bar and information at the bottom of the pane.

You cannot cancel a running process, and you can only use the Style Preview while a publication is running. However, you can still do other things in ArcGIS Pro while it's publishing.

If the publication process finished (successfully or not), you will see a summary of the results.

Publish Results

Once the publication has finished, you will see a summary of the results.

If the whole publication failed, you will see an error message at the top of the pane. If the publication was (partially) successful, you can expand the problematic layers (marked with a ) to find out what the problem is.

Layers marked with a have been skipped during the publication process.
Bridge should have already marked these as "unpublishable" in the staging phase.
Note that skipped layers are not regarded as failed.

Expand the successful layers (marked with a ) to add them to the map or show their capabilities or metadata record.

Note that this version of GeoCat Bridge does not store the publication result.
Closing the result pane will remove the results from memory. This will happen if:

• You click the Close button.
• You click the button.
• Start another publication process.