Specifying General Web Flexible Layout Settings

Use the Web Layout Editor to specify the following settings for your web layout:

You can add base maps from Google Maps™, Yahoo® Maps, and Bing™ Maps applications. There are three baselayers available from each provider. You can include any combination of baselayers and providers. Layer types include Google Terrain and Open Street Map.

To set general web layout settings

  1. Open the web layout to edit.

    For information about creating a new web layout, see Creating a New Web Layout.

  2. On the Infrastructure Studio toolbar, click Edit to hide the preview panel.
  3. Select a template by clicking on a thumbnail.

    For information about selecting a template, see Selecting a Template.

  4. For Web Page Title enter a title to appear in the title bar of the browser.
  5. Under Configure Components Of The Selected Template, click the Map tab, if it is not already selected.
  6. For Map Resource Used In This Layout click […], locate and select the map to reference in the web layout and click Open.
  7. For Initial View Of The Map do the one of the following:
    • Click Use Map’s Initial View.

      The initial view in the layout matches the initial view you specified in the Map Editor. For more information, see Setting the Initial Map View.

    • Click Use Custom View. For Center, enter the XY values of the point to use as the initial center point of the map.

      The XY values correspond to the units used in the referenced map resource. For example, if the map uses a Lat/Lon coordinate system, X is Lon and Y is Lat in degrees. If the map uses the Miller Cylindrical Projection, X and Y values are in Meters.

      To adjust the zoom level, for Zoom To enter the zoom factor for the initial zoom scale of the map.

      Leave the Zoom To field clear to display the entire map.

      Click Set To Current Map Zoom to use the center and zoom level you have defined in the Web Preview pane of the Web Layout Editor.

  8. Under Add Basemap From External Providers, you can do the following:
    • Select the external provider basemaps that you want to include in your layout.

      Select Street, Satellite, and/or Hybrid for each provider. For Google Maps, you can also select Terrain.

    • If you are using Google Maps API Premier, select that option and enter your Client ID. If you do not have a Client ID for Google Maps API Premier, click the link in the text under that field.
    • For Yahoo! Maps basemaps, you must enter an API key. Bing Maps does not require an API key.
    • Select the default baselayer to display.
  9. Click the Task Pane tab. For Inital Task URL specify the location of the initial HTML content to display in the task pane to assist your users.
  10. Click File menu Save.