Projects management

SuperMap iPortal provides the following project management functions:

• Project management: Support to manage the registered and published projects in the portal in a unified way (view, edit, retrieve, delete, modify the sharing scope, set as featured).
• Project review: Review project registered and edited by common users. (Project Review is disabled by default. You can enable this function in the iportal.xml configuration file. For details, see: iPortal configuration file description)

Manage projects

As an administrator, you can perform the following operations on projects by entering the Management > Resources Management > Projects > Projects Management page:

View/Edit basic project Infos

Click one specified project, detailed info page will appear, click the "Edit Attributes" button at the right bottom page, you can replace the thumbnail and edit the project name, tags and description.

Rename projects

You can rename a projects name. Move the mouse to the target projects name, click the button that appears, the projects name will be in the editing state. After editing, click any blank position to exit the editing operation.

Delete projects

Check one or multiple projects and click the "Delete" button to remove the projects you don't need anymore.

Search projects

Search the projects you want to find by inputting the project name or the project owner in the input box on the right bottom page.

Modify the sharing scope of projects

On the Projects management page, check one or more projects, and click the "Share" button to modify the sharing permissions of projects in batches. The supported sharing scopes include:

• Private: Only the author and portal administrator can retrieve, view, delete, and edit project information.
• Public: Including three options: All users (including anonymous users) can search, All users (including anonymous users) can view, All login users can edit.
• Designated Department: Allow members of the designated department to search, view, and edit. You can specify that members under one or more departments can search, view, and edit. By default, sharing with department function is disabled; to enable sharing with department, the administrator needs to configure it in the iportal.xml configuration file.

• Designated groups: Allow members of the designated groups to search, view, and edit. You can specify that members under one or more groups can search, view, and edit.
• Designated User: Allow designated users to search, view, and edit. You can add one or more users to the "Selected Users" list. Users in the "Selected Users" list have retrieval permissions by default, and you can manually check the viewing or editing permissions.

If you have selected multiple projects with the same authorized sharing scope, when you click "Share", you can view their current sharing scopes; if the sharing scopes are different, you cannot view them, but you can still authorize the selected projects in bulk. After authorization, these projects have the same sharing scope.

Set as featured projects

On the Project management page, click the button in the "Set as Featured" column to mark the corresponding project as a Featured project. When displaying featured projects in the Resource Center, it will carry the corresponding featured logos, so that portal members can quickly access the featured resources. Note: Project resources with private permissions can't be set as featured resources.

Review projects

The project registered and edited by ordinary users of iPortal application need to be reviewed and approved by the administrator before they can be retrieved and used in iPortal.

Enable/Disable Project Review

The project audit function is not enabled by default. iPortal administrator, after logging in, click Manage > Resource Management > Projects > Project Audit to enter the "Project Audit" page, click "Enable" button to enable the project audit function.

 Meanwhile, Portal administrators can enable or disable this function by modifying iportal.xml in [SuperMap iPortal installation directory]\webapps\iportal\WEB-INF folder. For details,see: iPortal configuration file description.

Configure project attribute fields

Configure project attribute fields, i.e., configure which project attribute fields need to be re-audited by the administrator after being modified. If an ordinary user modifies the approved project, even if he/she modifies any of the attribute fields, by default, the administrator needs to re-examine the project. Of course, the administrator can configure in the iportal.xml configuration file which project attribute fields need to be re-audited after being modified. Project attribute fields include: name (fileName), description (description), thumbnail (thumbnail), tags (tags), connection information(contactInfo), project picture(detailImages), project type(type),  For specific configuration, see: iPortal configuration file description.

Review projects

After logging into the iPortal as an administrator, you can view the projects to be reviewed in Pending Items on Management>Home page, or you can view them by entering Management > Resources Management > Projects > Project Review page. Then you can perform the following operations:

• Pass. You can check one or multiple projects to approve at once. The project owner can receive a passed message and can view the review result from My Projects. Reviewing Status column shows the review results. Reviewing result includes "Pass" and "Not passed".
• Reject. If the registered project does not meet your requirements, you can reject the application with reasons. The project owner will receive the rejection message and can resubmit the review application after fixing the problems by editing the project.
• Delete. If you click the "Delete" button on the projects to be reviewed, these projects will also be removed from My Projects of the project owner.

You can also click the name of the project to view the details of the project, and you can directly "pass", "reject" or "delete" the project at the bottom of the page.

The system will send a message to the project creator when the project is approved or rejected, and the project creator can view the message in "My Messages".