Enterprise Integration
Oracle 11g Support
Oracle11g databases are now supported and spatial data stored in these databases can be published as map layers. Data stored in Oracle 10g can also be published. For Oracle 9i databases, support will be more limited per the Oracle policy.
Oracle: Support of Time Component
This will allow administrators to add a time constraint when defining an Oracle Spatial graphical source.
ProjectWise Integration
A new connection option allows for selecting a ProjectWise path along with ProjectWise credentials. The data preparation server will fetch the files selected in this connection and copy them out locally to the defined path. It will also monitor changes in the selected ProjectWise documents and make sure that the local cache folder is in synch with the files stored in ProjectWise. This option can be used for iDPR creation, Raster publishing as well as WFS services.
OGC WFS Server
Bentley Geo Web Publisher is now an Open Geospatial Consortium Web Feature Service server. Versions of the OGC WFS specification are 1.0.0 and 1.1.0. Existing graphical sources and non-graphical sources can be published in WFS/GML in addition to regular map publishing. Multiple WFS services can be created within the same Bentley Geo Web Publisher installation, just as multiple maps can be created and published from the same server.
Coordinate Systems Support
A library of coordinate systems is delivered with Bentley Geo Web Publisher. The library can be browsed and searched; “favorites” coordinate systems can also be saved. Coordinate systems can be associated at the map level and the layer level. Layers stored in a coordinate system other than the map coordinate system will be re-projected on the fly. Some layer types such as iDPR cannot be re-projected.
Collaboration Workflows
Authorization/Authentication
Within the Site Authoring tool, administrators can specify which data is visible to specific users. The authorization works at the layer level, and in this context, the layer encompasses each and every object that is tied to it; so if a layer is not visible to a user, he will obviously not see the layer itself from the display object, the searches, the reports from the info object; the themes from the thematic mapping object, and others.
Database Redlining
Redlining can now be performed with ODBC Spatial layers and Oracle Spatial layers. In the case of Oracle Spatial layers, points, lines, and polygons can be placed, moved, modified or deleted from the Map Viewer.
Additionally, attributes can also be populated from the website, using either plain text fields or pick lists. Pick lists can be filled in from fixed values, domain lists or conditional domain lists. For example, one could have a list of countries and a list of cities, and set up the Database Redline tool so that when a user selects a country from the “Country” list, only cities from this country will be available in the “City” pick list.
Redlining
A new custom object now offers redlining functions. Redline files can be loaded and saved from disk, overlaid on top of a map and printed.
Advanced Print
The new advanced print tool allows end users to generate cartographic quality prints from the Map Viewer.
