The Bridge Dialog

Most of the interaction with GeoCat Bridge is done through the Bridge dialog. To open it, select the Publish button on the Web toolbar or look for it under the Web/GeoCat Bridge menu.

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The first time you open the Bridge dialog, you will be asked to enter your license key:

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Your license key likely begins with geocatbridge-, followed by 32 hexadecimal characters.

After you entered the key and clicked OK, a remote license check is performed. If the license is valid, the Bridge dialog opens and you will see a landing page with information about Bridge and other GeoCat products. Follow the corresponding links to find out more about these products and how they can be used with Bridge.

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Tip

At the bottom of the About panel, it should display the GeoCat Bridge version that you are currently running. GeoCat Bridge Enterprise for QGIS users should also see the expiry date of their licensed Bridge software.

If your license is invalid and Bridge does not open, you can see information as to why the license check failed in the GeoCat Bridge Log Messages panel (see Logging and error handling).

As you can see, there are 2 more panels besides the About panel mentioned above:

  • Publish

  • Servers

We will have closer look at these panels on the following pages.

Logging and error handling

If you are experiencing unexpected behavior, you should open the GeoCat Bridge log message panel to find out if Bridge has been logging some errors or warnings.
This panel can be opened by clicking the “balloon” button in the lower-right corner of QGIS or by checking the View > Panels > Log Messages item from the QGIS menu bar.
In some (rare) occassions, Bridge might raise an exception. When this happens, a dialog pops up with a Python strack trace.
If the error re-occurs, please press the Send Report button, so that we’re aware of the issue and can try fixing it.

Internationalization (i18n)

GeoCat Bridge is primarily targeted towards an international audience, which means that it has an English user interface. | However, some rudimentary translations are available for the following languages:

  • Dutch (Nederlands)

  • German (Deutsch)

  • Spanish (Español)

The translations will be applied automatically based on the language settings of the user. If no translation can be found for a certain text, the original text (English) will be displayed instead.