ArcGIS for Server: Sharing GIS Content on the Web (10.1)

• GIS analysts, specialists, and other experienced ArcGIS users who want to share GIS resources in web maps and web-mapping applications.
• Developers who want to incorporate GIS services and web maps into custom applications.

Prerequisites

Completion of ArcGIS II: Essential Workflows or equivalent knowledge is required.

• Author and publish map services to share your authoritative GIS data.
• Create and publish image services to provide fast access to imagery.
• Design and build a map cache to maximize map service performance.
• Publish a geoprocessing service to share your GIS models and analysis results.
• Publish a feature service to enable data editing in a web application.
• Share GIS resources as stand-alone services and in web maps and web-mapping applications.

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ArcGIS for Server overview

• Workflow for authoring, sharing, and using GIS content
• Deployment options
• Connecting to ArcGIS Server
• Authoring and publishing a map service
• Adding a map service to an ArcGIS.com viewer application

Understanding ArcGIS for Server services

• Managing data sources for ArcGIS for Server services
• Connecting to a multiuser geodatabase
• Accessing data stored in a multiuser geodatabase
• Configuring an ArcGIS Viewer for Flex web mapping application

Creating effective maps for the web

• Designing and building an effective web mapping application
• Authoring best practices
• Analyzing a map document

Map caching for performance and scalability

• Devising a caching strategy
• Authoring maps for cached services
• Building a test cache

Sharing imagery

• Determining when to use dynamic and cached image services
• Authoring a mosaic dataset
• Publishing and using a dynamic image service

Using geoprocessing services to share workflows

• How a geoprocessing service works
• Authoring, sharing, and using a geoprocessing service
• Integrating a geoprocessing service task into a web mapping application

Feature services: Sharing editing workflows

• Preparing data stored in a multiuser geodatabase for a feature service
• Authoring and sharing a feature service
• Creating a web mapping application with editing capability

Building a web GIS solution

• Design a web GIS solution
• Author services
• Deploy your web GIS solution

Esri will provide the following software to use during class:

• ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop (Standard or Advanced)
• ArcGIS 10.1 for Server Workgroup (Advanced)
• Image Extension 10.1
• ArcGIS Online
• ArcGIS Explorer Online
• ArcGIS Viewer 1.0.1 for Silverlight
• ArcGIS Viewer 3.0 for Flex
• Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008 R2