Hawaii Pacific GIS Conference 2012: Application Development - Using GIS Data in SharePoint, An Introduction

Using GIS Data in SharePoint:

An Introduction

Jennifer Hughey

Agenda

• Overview of SharePoint 2010

• ArcGIS for SharePoint

• Questions

Microsoft SharePoint 2010

• Background: Microsoft SharePoint 2010

- Multipurpose Web application platform

• Web content management

• Documents and records management

• Forms and workflows

• Search

- Connects and empowers users

- Provides unified structure

- Adapts to business needs

Communities

Search

Sites

Composites

Content Insights

Mapping data in SharePoint

• Visualize SharePoint data in geospatial context

- GIS and interactive mapping functionality

- Display SharePoint data with other web services

• Can be integrated as part of a larger IT solution

- Collaborate and share with others

• Promote GIS within your organization

- Other Departments may not use GIS, but use SharePoint

- Sell the “value” of GIS

ArcGIS For SharePoint

• Configurable ready-to-deploy

Web client

- Built with ArcGIS API for

Silverlight

• Enables GIS and mapping

functionality in SharePoint

• Ideal for users familiar with

SharePoint

- Configuration user experience

• Install on SharePoint instance

Geocoding

• Locate Addresses workflow

- Easy way to geocode addresses

• Automated geocoding

- when a list item is changed or

added

• Interactively select the best

address candidate match

- using the Location Field

• Track the status of candidate

selection

Locate Addresses Workflow

• Find the geographic coordinates of addresses stored

in SharePoint lists

• SharePoint workflow

- provides an experience that will be familiar to

many SharePoint users

• Configurable Locators

Configurable user experience

• Interface provides clear

distinction between design-time

and run-time

• Designers configure items on

ribbon

- Set data content, functionality and

appearance

• End users are provided access to

what Designers configure in UI

User experience continued…

• Configure data layer properties

- Symbology, attribute tables, and pop-ups

• For point data → display clusters and heat maps

• Add and configure analysis functionality

• Edit features

Clustering Heat Map Analysis

Questions