My Data

In the SuperMap iPortal 7C(2015) version or later one, only the system administrator and iPortal user who has the DATA_CENTER role could see the page of My Data, and upload data or publish it as service in the page of My Data. Administrator could modify the role related to the user in User Management page: http://supermapiportal:8090/iportal/manager/security/users. For more information, please refer to: User Management.

The data uploaded by the user is published by Hosting Services, therefore, before uploading and publishing the service, please make sure that iPortal manager already performed Configuration of the Hosting Services, and added one or more hosting servers.

Directory Management

SuperMap iPortal provides directory management function for my data. All data you upload can be organized and categorized through catalogs to make it easy for you to quickly find target data resources.

Click the My Data tab on the left side of the page, you will find a default directory. If you have not created a new directory, the uploaded data will be stored in the default directory. If you create a new directory, select the directory name, and then click the Upload Data button, the uploaded data will be automatically stored in the selected directory. You can create directories, delete directories, rename directories you created, and move data to the specified directory.

Specifically, you could follow operations below:

• Create Directory: Create a new directory. Click the My Data tab on the left side of the page, click the arrow to the right of my data (or any new directory name), select New Catalog in the pop-up drop-down box, and then input the name for the new directory in the Create Directory dialog box that pops up and click OK. Four-level catalogs are currently supported.
• Delete Directory: Delete a directory. Click the arrow to the right of the directory name, select Delete Directory in the pop-up drop-down box, and the directory will not be able to be restored after it has been deleted, and all data under the directory will be moved to the default directory. The default directory cannot be deleted.
• Rename Directory: Rename created directories. Click the arrow to the right of the directory name, select Rename Directory in the pop-up drop-down box, input the directory name in the Rename Directory dialog box that pops up and click OK.
• Move data to the specified directory: Move the data to a specified directory. At a directory level, check the data that you want to move under the current directory, and then click the Move To button to pop up the Move To dialog box, in which you can select the destination directory name, and then click OK to move the data.

Upload Data and Publish Services

On the My Data page, the iPortal user with the DATA_CENTER role can upload the specified type of data, view all uploaded data, publish the uploaded "workspace" as SuperMap REST map Services, data Services, or 3D services, and publish the uploaded " smtiles files, svtiles files, mbtiles files, TPK files, UGCV5 cache as Supermap REST map services. Moreover, the iPortal user with the DATA_CENTER role can modify, download, and share and delete the uploaded data.

Specifically, you could follow operations below:

• Select a directory name on the left, click the "Upload Data" button, in the pop-up dialog box, select the type of data to be uploaded and the corresponding data file, and then click the "OK" button, the data will be uploaded to the specified directory. If you have not selected a directory, the uploaded data will be stored in the default directory.

• Download Data: Click the Download button in the Operation column to implement the data download.
• Upload Data: Click the Update button in the Operation column, and in the pop-up dialog box, select the data type and the corresponding file, and then click OK to implement the update of the data.
• Delete Data: Select one or more data, click the Delete button, implement the selected data, or click the Delete button in the Operation column to delete a single item of data.
• Publish Data: Click the button in the Operation column to publish the data as service. When finished, the name, type, status of the service will be displayed in the page of My Data. They will also be added in the page of My Service. The default sharing method of the service is private. You could set the sharing method in page of My Services. Click the button, you could check service after the related current data are published. Click the button, you could delete this service. After deletion, this service will be removed from both in portal and in host server.
• Share Data: You can choose one or more data, then click button of Sharing Settings, or the icon in the list of Operation column, and then finish the sharing settings in the Data Sharing Settings dialog box that display.
• Private: Default is Private, which only allows the one who uploads the data to view, edit, delete, and download the data.
• Public: All users (including anonymous users) can view and download the data.
• Department: Members of a department can have access to the data.
• Group: Members of a group can have access to the data.
• Specified Users: Only specified users can have access to the data.

Table 1 The relationship of the data type and data files are as below:

In addition to the data types listed above, you can also upload AUDIO (audio files), PHOTOS (Photos), IMAGE (images), VIDEO (video files), and more. For details, please refer to POST Requests for myDatas Resource.

For more information about hosting services, please refer to Hosting Services.

With regard to shared settings for the data, you can also perform permission settings on the data via REST API, such as: setting sharing methods as private, public, specified departments, specified groups, and specified users, specifying who can download, update, and delete data. For more details, please refer to datasShareSetting resource