Batch Update to Sites

Permanently deleted user

May 12, 2015 05:44

I have a list of about 400 different sites and I need to make updates to every single site such as:

• Add HTML5 viewer 
• Add Open Street Map as a base map

Is there as way I can automate this without having to go into each site one by one?

Any ideas on this could save me a lot of time in the future!

Thanks!

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  Stefan Schweigert

  May 12, 2015 05:59

  Hello Neal,

  Currently, there is no ability to achieve this. I have created a feature request for such functionality.

   

  Thanks, Stefan

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  Permanently deleted user

  May 12, 2015 21:42

  Hi Stefan,

   

  Thank you for the quick response and thanks for creating a feature request for this functionality.  We are interested in consistency of brand across all of the sites that we have. The ability to go in and make changes to all sites in mass would improve be especially useful to us.  Right now, our stragegy is to break up the list of sites into smaller chunks and each member of our team will take a chunk and go through one - by - one making changes.  It can be a little cumbersome.

   

  Thanks, Neal 

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  Permanently deleted user

  May 13, 2015 08:23

  Not sure what version you're on but can't you achieve this with the reference site?

  Don't know if the reference site works with viewers but we use it for basemaps. All our basemaps are in our 'base site' that is then referenced in each of our production sites. Updating the basemaps in the base site is reflected across all the production sites automatically.

  Cheers

  Neil.

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  Stefan Schweigert

  May 13, 2015 08:50

  Hello Neil,

   

  Thanks for suggesting inheritance! Not sure why a bell didn't go off in my head sooner.

  Neal, creating sites initially that all inherit from each other would be ideal and would relieve a lot of the issues you are having. What you could do is inherit from a particular 'parent' site, then remove any unnecessary map services in the 'child' sites that are present in the parent that you don't need.

  There's a section on Site Inheritence in the Administrator and Developer Guide for Geocortex Essentials that would help in the process.

   

  Thanks,

   

  Stefan

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  John Nerge

  May 15, 2015 20:31

  So I'm curious; what does a collection of 400 GE sites look like (user groups targeted, site design, etc.)? I thought I had a decent-sized collection with 20 sites :)

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  Permanently deleted user

  May 18, 2015 03:08

  Hi John

  I can imagine a one word description: scary

  Regards

  Ralph Price

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