What’s new in CoGIS 5.1:
• Widgets
- Widgets windows can be used to display on map different statistics data as graphs and diagrams, as well as information dialogs created using HTML and scripts.
• Extended objects editing options
- Adding objects by coordinates
- Loading and uploading shape files
- Loading data to graphic layer without saving on server.
• Extended search and filter settings
- Search results can be displayed on map using pushpins or only found objects can be displayed on map.
• Layer visibility management buttons
- For any layer of the map service the switch button can be added to manage visibility of the layer or the group of layers.
• Managing interactive maps help content
- Help topics list shown in the interactive map help window can be managed for each map separately, depending on the applicable tools.
• Reworked and enhanced interface for CoGIS SOE Setting.
What’s new in CoGIS 5.0:
Catalog
• New design
- The map catalog look has been fully reworked and redesigned.
• Favorite maps
- Selected maps and folders can now be added to Favorites list and be always shown at the top of the catalog in case if the Favorites selection method has been checked.
• Main page
-Selected maps and folders can now be shown on separate page of totally new design. All maps now contain extended description and large thumbnail picture.
• Map description page
- The map description page has been fully redesigned - the map description is now shown on separate page, and each description element is shown in separate stripe of the page.
Interactive map
• New design
The interactive map has been fully reworked and redesigned. All known tools are still available but their look and location on the map have changed. The map window now occupies entire display screen and the tool buttons and dialogs are shown on top of the map.
• Object’s identification dialog
-Additional information about the object (related objects, attached files, coordinates) now locates in separate tabs of the identification dialog.
Constructor
• Setting location of tool buttons on map
- Combination of tools and their location on map can now be specified for each map separately.
• Setting information display in object’s identification dialog
-Showing information about the object on the main page of the identification dialog can now be specified for each map separately.
• Setting main page
- Display rules for selected maps can now be specified so that they could be shown on separate pages. Besides, display rules of the catalog description and banner can now be specified.
• Relative links to services
- Relative links to services can now be specified in case if CoGIS and ArcGIS for Server locate at the same address.
• Setting CoGIS SOE
- CoGIS SOE usage rules can now be specified via user-friendly graphic interface.
Other fixes and changes
• Extended support for geoprocessing services parameters
- The list of supported geoprocessing services parameters has been extended. For example, support for parameters consisting of number or string arrays has been added.
• Grouping attributes in object’s identification dialog using xml
- Attributes can now be grouped both using html and xml. Groups set via xml are now shown not only in the identification preview mode, but also in the attributes editing mode.
What’s new in CoGIS 4.0:
Constructor
• Hiding objects for layers without specified filters
- Objects of the layer that has no specified filters can now be hidden by default, so only filtered objects will be shown on map in this case.
• Showing group layers in legend by default
- Map legend can now be set to show group layers expanded by default.
• Auto saving changes by default
- Two options of saving changes in map are now supported by default: automatically or upon user's confirmation.
Interactive map
• Quick search buttons
- Search parameters can now be saved as template to further open it by pressing the quick search button located on the Search panel.
• Image gallery
- Images attached to map objects can now be shown in the gallery located in the bottom part of the map.
• Showing html-code in the identification dialog
- Separate group with html-code containing values from specified attributes can now be added to the object’s identification dialog.
• Buttons for object creation templates
- Object templates can now be displayed as buttons on map, at that editing panel can be hidden.
• Auto completion of object's editing
- New option allowing to auto complete editing process and correct polygons geometry considering adjacent polygons can now be used during editing objects.
• Buttons for establishing relations
- Now to quickly establish relation with object you just need to select it from the list of layer's objects.
• Viewing list of related objects in attribute table
- List of related objects shown in attribute table can now be accessed from object's identification dialog.
• Selecting multiple domain values in attribute filter
- When specifying attribute filter for layer it is now possible to select multiple domain values. As a result, objects containing any of the selected value will be filtered.
• Spatial filter for group layer
- Spatial filter that will be applied to all subordinate layers can now be specified for group layer.
Catalog
• External links in catalog of interactive maps
- Links to external recourses can now be added to catalog of interactive maps.
Other fixes and changes
• Added option of selecting layer values for input parameters of geoprocessing service
• Added geoprocessing service for generating MS Excel reports based on user templates
• Support for authorization via Portal for ArcGIS
• Support for authorization via Facebook, LinkedIn, Google +, and etc.
• Redesigned installation wizard
• Redesigned identification dialog for objects in the Edit mode.
What’s new in CoGIS 3.0:
Constructor
• Setting default feature count rules
- Now you can specify the default features count options in the map
• Setting symbology for geoprocessing service results
- The outline and fill color, transparency and other symbology properties can now be specified for the geoprocessing service results
• Defining default layer opacity for map and image services
- Now you can edit the default opacity parameters for service layers.
Interactive map
• Grouping features as records in the attribute table
- All features groups in the attribute table are now displayed as records with description
• Grouping features by several fields in the attribute table
- Now multi- attribute grouping option is available in the attribute tables
• Combined spatial filter
- Now several spatial filters can be combined to filter layers by features of different geometry types simultaneously
• Print template preview
- Along with the template name, the Print tool dialog now contains the template preview as well
• Loading/uploading coordinates of linear and polygon features from/to MS Excel tables
• Displaying results of loading from MS Excel tables directly on the map without saving to GDB
- Prior to save features loaded from MS Excel tables to geodatabase, you can now view them on your map and edit or delete some of them, if required
• Showing only visible layers
- Your map legend can now be filtered to show visible layers only
• Changing layer opacity on the map
- The layer opacity can now be changed directly in the context menu of the layer.
Catalog
• Displaying folders in the catalog
- Not only interactive maps, but also folders can now be displayed in map catalog.
Other fixes and changes
• Added support of files as input parameters for geoprocessing services
• Increased map loading speed
• Enhanced and redesigned Measurements and Current coordinates tools.
What’s new in CoGIS 2.5
Constructor
• Setting print service templates list
- Now only set list of print service templates will be used by printing tool in interactive map
Interactive map
• Counting features only in visible map extent
- Now you can select whether you need to count features of all map or of the current map extent only
• Editing barriers in the Optimal route search and Service Area tools
- The shape of barriers can now be edited as graphics on the map.
Other fixes and changes
• Implemented public services availability verification option
• Added support for complex layer symbology (Graduated symbol, Pie chart, Column Chart, etc.)
• Enhanced and redesigned appearance of the printed feature information page
• Enhanced and redesigned interface of Geoprocessing tools and
Swipe tool.
What’s new in CoGIS 2.4:
Constructor
• New option in the Feature service setting provided to use it not only for editing features but also for displaying features on the map.
Interactive map
• Copying spatial filter geometry from another layer
• Added colors to display geoprocessing results
- Now random colors are used to display geoprocessing results instead of red color used in the previous CoGIS versions
• Simplified feature relationships editing
- New relationships between features can now be created with simple copy/paste operation.
Catalog
• New option to sort interactive maps by popularity
Other fixes and changes
What’s new in CoGIS 2.3:
Constructor
• Multipage map description support
- You can now provide more detailed information about your map by adding several html-pages with texts and attaching pictures to the map description dialog.
• Setting zoom scale for point features in map service
- Now you can specify the scale for zooming to single point feature on the map
• Setting default symbology templates for drawing
- Saved user templates can now be added to list of default symbology templates for drawing features and display map layers.
Interactive map
• Enhanced and redesigned layer menu
• Enhanced and redesigned Drawing graphics tool and Setting layer symbology tool.
Catalog
• Multipage map description support
- Map description is now displayed in the drop-down menu instead of the particular dialog opened on top of the catalog as it was before
• Searching projects by name, tags and description.
Other fixes and changes
• Supporting WMS/WFS services for displaying features on the map
• Bug fixes.
What’s new in CoGIS 2.2:
Constructor
• Temporary disabling services in representations
- Now you can temporary disable representations services instead of deleting them as before
• Interactive map tags list
- Now you can specify the list of interactive map tags, which will be used to sort maps in the maps catalog
• Map data relevance
- Now you can specify the data relevance parameter, which will be used to sort maps in the map catalog.
Interactive map
• Support for rounded values to display feature length and area in the Identify dialog
• Support for pictures in the point features display symbology
• Enhanced and redesigned Map legend, Editing, Search, Optimal route search and Service area tabs.
Catalog
• Sorting maps by tags and data relevance
• Redesigned catalog appearance and rearranged location of catalog elements
• Redesigned Sign in and Registration windows.
Other fixes and changes
Constructor
• Copying representation to another map
- Now you can just drag and drop representation to another map to copy it.
Interactive map
• Setting attributes order
- Now you can set order of displaying fields in attribute table and in feature identify dialog
• Get geometry from map tool
- Now you can copy geometry of graphics and spatial features to create spatial filter for searching features and filtering layer
• Saving user’s symbology templates
- Now all saved user’s symbology templates are available for further work with interactive maps
• Attribute table
- The attribute table is now opened much quicker and the RAM use has been reduced
• Loading data from MS Excel tool
- The time of loading data from MS Excel has been reduced and the operation stability while loading big data has been improved.
What’s new in CоGIS 2.0:
Constructor
• Redesigned interactive map constructor interface
• Storing map description as xml-file
- Descriptions of all maps are now stored as xml-files and not in database
• Setting filter by layers in CоGIS SOE service
- Now you can specify, which layers from CоGIS SOE service will be used in map
• Setting display names for costs and restrictions in Network service
- Now you can enter display names for costs and restrictions in different languages
• Setting display rules and default values for input and output geoprocessing service parameters.
Interactive map
• Redesigned appearance of interactive map and rearranged location of map elements
• Displaying layer description in map legend
- Now layer description specified in the map service is displayed in the map legend
• Editing feature geometry in the feature Identify dialog
- Now you can edit feature geometry using the Edit geometry tool from the feature Identify dialog
• Uploading layer data to MS Excel tables
- Besides loading from MS Excel operation, you can now also upload data to MS Excel tables, edit some attributes and load the updated data back to your map
• Displaying detailed route
- The calculated optimal route is now displayed as list of key route points with directions.
Other fixes and changes
• User administration page
- Now you can manage ArcGIS for Server users list directly from CоGIS without using ArcGIS for Server Manager module
• Setting CоGIS SOE without configuration tables
- Now you just need to enable basic SOE features in the ArcGIS for Server Manager to use them.
What’s new in CoGIS 1.5:
Interactive map
• Enhanced Feature count tool
- Number of features in layer is now displayed in legend based on filters specified for this layer
• Displaying the tree list of layers in the attribute table of the Search tab (similar to the tree list of layers in map legend)
• Displaying geoprocessing results in the attribute table
• Displaying additional text fields option in the Print map tool
- If your published print service template contains additional text fields (besides standard ones), they will be displayed on the Print tool tab
• All layer options and settings are moved to the layer context menu
• Displaying tables in the map legend
- If your map service contains published tables, they will be displayed in the map legend along with the layers.
Catalog
• Detailed map information
- Now you can create detailed map description, which will be displayed in a pop-up window.
Other fixes and changes
• Services availability verification
- Now service availability is verified not by client, but by server and the verification results are cached
• Using several print services simultaneously
- Now several print services can be added to map. The print templates of all these services will be displayed on the printing tab
• Supportfor Windows authorization.
What’s new in CoGIS 1.4:
Constructor
• Setting user symbology for map service
- Now you can disable the user symbology setting option even if it is allowed in map service settings
• Grouping different service layers in group layer
- Now layers from different services can be grouped in one group layer, that will be displayed in the map legend.
• Searching maps in the catalog’s constructor
- The required map can now be found in the constructor. The search can be made by name, description or keywords.
• Root catalog folder
- Now you can specify all basic services in the root folder representations.
Interactive map
• Increased map loading speed
• Map description
- New tab containing detailed description and thematic of the map has been added
• New features added to the Enhanced MS Excel loading tool:
- Support for DMS coordinates
- Updating attributes of existing features and spatial location of points
- Updating coordinates of point features by address
- Deleting all data before loading new data
• Spatial filter for attribute table of the layer
- Now you can filter the layer to display only features that locate in specific area or intersect specific boundaries.
CоGIS SOE
• Filling attribute fields with values taken from attributes of the related feature
- You can also sum attributes of several related features and use this value to fill in the attribute table
• Creating, updating and deleting attachments
- Besides adding attachments to better describe your map features, you can now automatically create the preview dialogs for attached images. The preview will be displayed in the feature identify dialog.
• Saving feature’s geometry parameters to attributes
- Now you can save feature length, area or centroid and extent coordinates values to feature attributes
• Direct and back geocoding while creating and updating features
- While creating features or loading features from MS Excel tables you can now enable the option of defining feature coordinates by addresses. Besides this, by editing feature location it is now possible to automatically fill in the Address field with the correspondent value.
• Calculating value recorded to the feature attribute using the js/vb/python function
- For example, you can now automatically fill in the feature attribute with the name of the user created this feature
• Automatic topology correction of neighboring features
- Now you can automatically control position of neighboring features to avoid their intersection or overlay
• The number of related features is not automatically saved to feature attributes.
What’s new in CoGIS 1.3:
Constructor
• Discarding service layer in map
- While setting the map service you can now specify to discard specific layers in your map using the “-” operator. For example, if you do not need layers 1 and 3 to be displayed on you map, specify “-1,3” in the map service settings.
• Setting the map availability restrictions for specified ArcGIS-group members.
• Setting default visibility for image service.
Interactive map
• Searching layers in legend
- Now you can search layer in map legend by its name.
Other fixes and changes
• Calculating routes using geometry network
- For small data the geometry network can now be used to calculate routes
• Automatic creating and updating buffers during feature editing
- Now you can specify the buffer zone to be automatically created, updated, and saved to geodatabase
• Improved location search algorithm for navigation bar
• Improved map feature count.
What’s new in CoGIS 1.2:
Constructor
• Specifying initial and full map extents using favorite extents saved by the user
- After saving the required extent to the favorites list it can now be used for setting the initial and full map extents in constructor.
Interactive map
• Calculating the number of features in each layer and for each layer symbology
- When using CoGIS SOE the number of features is now displayed not only for specific layers, but for each layer symbology as well
• Showing all layer features
- The new button allowing to show all layer features has been added to the layer context menu
• Showing all features from visible layers
- The new button allowing to show all features from all visible layers has been added to the layers legend
• Loading data from MS Excel tables
- Now you can load attribute data from MS Excel table to the specified map layer. If your MS Excel table contains columns with XY coordinates of the required coordinate system, the new point features can be created in the specified layer on the map.
• Go to coordinates
- Now you can specify coordinates to zoom to required location on your map in just one click
• Layer swipe
- Now you can compare two datasets with different basemaps using the layer swipe divider
• Using snapping operation for creating and editing features.
Other fixes and changes
• Support for image services
- The satellite images and maps published as image service can now be added to your map as the layer
• Support for geoprocessing services
- Now you can perform spatial analysis directly on the map using the geoprocessing services.
What’s new in CoGIS 1.1:
Constructor
• Specifying scale bar labels
- Now you can specify labels for specific scale range (for example, Country, District, Street, etc.)
• Specifying SQL-filter for map service layers
- Now for each map service you can specify SQL-filter, which will be applied to all service layers.
Interactive map
• Managing visibility of specific layer symbology for complex symbology
• Generating project link
- Now you can share the link to your map containing the current map extent and the current feature ID with your colleagues
• Multiscale layers
- Now set of layers provided to display features in different scales can be shown as single layer in map legend
• Navigation bar
- Using CoGIS SOE you can now add the navigation bar to your map, and specify this bar to show your current location (for example, city, list of cities, city districts, etc.) in order to quickly zoom to this location when required
• Switching on/off the group layer visibility in the map legend.
Other fixes and changes
• Editing features within specific territory only
- With CoGIS SOE you can now specify the territory to restrict editing features outside this territory. These territories can be defined by nodes coordinates, and by one or several features boundaries.
• Editing features in specified layers only
- With CoGIS SOE you can now specify to allow editing in specific service layers only
• Dividing feature editing into separate operations – features creation, update, deletion, and relates establishment and deletion
- Now you can specify different restrictions for separate editing operations. For example, you can allow adding features to one layer only, or to delete features from another layer only.