SuperMap iPortal provides administrators with the following service management functions:

Register services in batch

SuperMap iPortal supports batch registration of services from SuperMap iServer and supports automatic synchronization of services in the iServer (for example: iServer adds a new service, iPortal will automatically synchronize, the new service will be automatically registered to the portal; iServer Service removal, activation and deactivation, iPortal will automatically sync), the default update time is 60 minutes, you can also set the update time as needed. For more information, see: Service update time interval setting.

Service in SuperMap iServer for all versions (including the lowest version) supports bulk registration to the iPortal.

Log in to your portal, click Management> Resources Management, select "Register in batch" in the "Service" dropdown list then click "Add Directory Service Address" and perform the following steps to finish the registration process.

  1. Enter the directory service address

In the text box, enter the directory service address of the iServer service in the following format: http: //<server>:<port>/iserver/service, for example, "http://192.168.112.217:8090/iserver/services"

  1. Check the Specify Credentials

To register a protected service, you should check the "Specify Credentials" checkbox and select the matched credential from the drop-down list. If you haven't created the corresponding credential, click Add Credentials at the bottom of the drop-down list to complete the creation process.

  1. Set sharing scope

You can share the registered services with all portal users (including anonymous users), specified departments, specified groups, specified users, or don't share with anyone, ie., just can be accessed by yourself. After the services have been successfully registered, you can also modify services sharing scope.

Click the "OK" button to complete the bulk registration. All the public iServer services will be registered to iPortal.

  1. Edit directory service address

If the iServer IP address changes, edit the directory service address. First, click "Edit" to modify it. After confirming, the new address displays in the list, and previously registered iServer service addresses update to the new IP. To revoke registration, select the iServer and click "Unregister" or "Delete", but they differ:

  • Unregister: Hides the iServer service from the frontend; all members cannot see it, but the service and its permissions are not removed, allowing quick re-registration later.
  • Delete: Permanently removes the service registration information from the system.
  1. Edit service metadata information

For batch-registered services, default public metadata (e.g., provider) can be uniformly specified by editing the smmd2007template.xml file (located in [SuperMap iPortal Installation Directory]\webapps\iportal\WEB-INF\iportal-all-*.jar\config\csw).

Review services

If you enable this function, the services that common users applied to register need to be reviewed first. Only the approved services can be added to Service Resource Center. By default, this function is disabled, which means all the services users registered will be added to Service Resource Center for searching and using. Note that only the users who have the privileges can view and use these services in Service Resource Center.

Enable/Disable Service Review

 

SuperMap iPortal 8C SP1 or later versions disable this function. The service audit function is not enabled by default. iPortal administrator, after logging in, click Manage > Resource Management > Service > Service Audit to enter the "Service Audit" page, click "Enable" button to enable the service audit function.

Meanwhile, Portal administrators can enable or disable this function by modifying iportal.xml in [SuperMap iPortal installation directory]\webapps\iportal\WEB-INF folder. For details,see: iPortal configuration file description.

Configure service attribute fields

If users in your organization modified the information of the reviewed services, for example, the name, description, but the description doesn't conform to your standard, you can control these modifications by configuring service property fields for your reviewing operations. You need to configure them in iportal.xml file. And the properties you can configure include name (fileName), description (description), thumbnail (thumbnail), tags (tags), reference system(refSysInfo), identifier(exDesc), scope(geoBndBox), provider(mdContact), custom preview URL(previewURL). For specific configuration, see: iPortal configuration file description.

Review services

After logging into the iPortal as an administrator, you can view the services to be reviewed in Pending Items on Management>Home page, or you can view them by entering Management>Resources Management>Service Review page. Then you can perform the following operations:

  • Pass. You can check one or more services to approve at once. The applicant can receive a passed message and can view the review result from Personal Center>May Services items. Reviewing status column shows the review results. Review result includes "Pass" and "Not passed".
  • Reject. If the service to be registered does not meet your requirements, you can reject the application with reasons. The applicant will receive the rejection message and can resubmit the review application after fixing the problems.
  • Delete. If you click the "Delete" button on the services to be reviewed, these services will also be removed from Personal Center>My Services of the applicant.

You can also click the name of the service to view the details of the service, and you can directly "pass", "reject" or "delete" the service at the bottom of the page.

The system will send a message to the service creator when the service is approved or rejected, and the service creator can view the message in "My Messages".

Manage services

Log in to your portal as an administrator, click Management >Resource Management, and select the "Service Management" option in the "Service" dropdown list. This page lists all the registered services, including single registration services, bulk registration services, and hosted services. If you open the review service function, only the approved services will be displayed on this page. On this page, you can view and edit the basic Infos of these services, control their enable and disable in your portal, and even delete these services. All these operations only affect your portal, it won't have any impact on the original services.

View basic service Infos

The Services Management list page shows the visibility of the service, the service name, whether it is a hosted service, the service address (if the service proxy is enabled, the proxy address will display), the service type, the service registrant, the service registration time, whether it is registered in batch.

Edit basic service Infos

Click one specified service, detailed info page will appear, click the "Edit Attributes" button at the right bottom page, you can replace the thumbnail and edit the basic service info and metadata info.

Note: Editing a service address only supports updating service addresses of the same type.

Rename service

You can rename a services name. Move the mouse to the target services name, click the button that appears, the services name will be in the editing state. After editing, click any blank position to exit the editing operation.

Modify the sharing scope of services

On the Services management page, check one or more services, and click the "Share" button to modify the sharing permissions of services in batches. The supported sharing scopes include:

  • Private: Only the author and portal administrator can retrieve, view service information.
  • Public: Allows all users (including anonymous users) to view the service, view meta information, and access services.
  • Designated Department: Allow members of the designated department to search, or view. You can specify that members under one or more departments can search, or view. By default, sharing with department function is disabled; to enable sharing with department, the administrator needs to configure it in the iportal.xml configuration file.
  • Designated groups: Allow members of the designated groups to search, and view. You can specify that members under one or more groups can search, and view.
  • Designated User: Allow designated users to search, or view. You can add one or more users to the "Selected Users" list. Users in the "Selected Users" list have retrieval permissions by default, and you can manually check the viewing permission.

If you have selected multiple services with the same authorized sharing scope, when you click "Share", you can view their current sharing scopes; if the sharing scopes are different, you cannot view them, but you can still authorize the selected services in bulk. After authorization, these services have the same sharing scope.

Enable/Disable/Delete/Search services

You can search, enable, disable or delete all services in your portal.

  • Enable: Admininstrators can restore deactivated service.
  • Disable: After the service is disabled by the administrator, it cannot be searched in the portal, and all users (including the creator) cannot access the service.
  • Offline: Indicates this registered service is not available now and its original service has been disabled or deleted. The offline services won't be displayed on the Service Resource Center page by default. You can change this default setting by editing the iportal.xml file.
  • Delete: If you delete one service, it will be removed from Service Resource Center and from the My Services pages.
  • Search: Enter key characters of service name or owner in the search box to search.

Set as featured services

On the Services management page, click the button in the "Set as Featured" column to mark the corresponding service as a Featured service. When displaying featured services in the Resource Center, it will carry the corresponding featured logos, so that portal members can quickly access the featured resources. Note: Service resources with private permissions can't be set as featured resources.

Set Update Time Interval for registered services

You can set the update time interval for registered services by editing the iportal.xml file in %SuperMap iPortal_HOME%/webapps/iportal/WEB-INF directory. For details, see the iPortal configuration file description.

Example:

<IportalConfig> 
   ...
   <serviceCheckSetting> 
       <singleCheckInterval>20</singleCheckInterval>  
       <batchCheckInterval>30</batchCheckInterval> 
   </serviceCheckSetting> 
</IportalConfig>
  • <singleCheckInterval>: The dynamic update time setting item for a single registration service. The value is 30 minutes by default. Here we set 20, that is, the single registered services will be updated every 20 minutes. It will update the service status, for example, online or offline.
  • <batchCheckInterval>: The dynamic update time setting item of the batch registration service. The value is 60 minutes by default. The update mainly refers to the number of services, that is, whether the number of services is increased or decreased.