Feature Comparison Matrix: Is feature X that was in GVH available in VSW yet?
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A common (and completely fair) question when looking at VertiGIS Studio Web is trying to understand if a feature that existed in the Geocortex Viewer for HTML5 (GVH) already exists in VertiGIS Studio Web (VSW).
In a recent show-and-tell webinar I presented some information on how to begin thinking about the transition from GVH to VSW and how to get ready for it.
During that presentation I shared a not-pretty-but-effective spreadsheet matrix that I keep up to date that helps map functionality between the two products.
At a minimum this view will help you understand if something already exists, and if I've indicated it does, then you can ask additional questions about how to access that functionality if it isn't immediately obvious in Designer.
Questions and comments are always welcome, that is the purpose of this community forum!
https://data.latitudegeo.com/Cam/gvh-vsw-feature-matrix.pdf
Items in yellow are new in the latest version.
- Updated to reflect the release of VertiGIS Studio Web 5.37 -
Cam
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Updated matrix for Web 5.26 release.
p.s. I also just reviewed all items in Planned state in the Ideas forum and was encouraged to see how many of them are 'In Dev' 'In Peer Review' or 'In QA' right now.
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Cam Barnard are you planning to add full support for OGC WFS layers in VSW?
Seems to be one of very few map service types that isn't yet supported. Would be much appreciated.
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Emil Solbakken Yes. Now that the Esri API supports WFS layers we have a ticket on the board to add the Web-side code to display those. My best 'guess' is that you'll see this in either the Feb 2024 or April 2024 release.
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Thanks Cam Barnard, great to hear!
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Hi Cam,
The feature matrix PDF link isn't working for me currently. Just getting a network timeout when attempting to access it. Is the link correct?
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Owen Parfrey ... apparently they replaced the server over the weekend and missed a step when setting it up. Should be resolved and fully operational now (from my own test on a public machine).
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Hi Cam,
I have two questions: 1) I am trying to use the "Buffer Results" command in VSW and expect it works as the "Buffer Options" tool in GVH. However, it does not have an option for end user to specify the distance. What is the default distance of this command? Any suggestions for allowing end users to specify the distance? 2) When VSW is going to support uploading address file (Excel or CSV) and perform batch geocode?
Thanks, Michelle
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The underlying commands for "Buffer Results":
[
{
"name": "map.clear-markup",
"arguments": {
"collection": "vgs-buffer"
}
},
{
"name": "sketching.capture-geometry",
"arguments": {
"geometryType": "point"
}
},
"geometry.buffer",
"drawing.create-graphics",
{
"name": "map.add-markup",
"arguments": {
"collection": "vgs-buffer"
}
},
"tasks.identify",
"results.display",
"map.zoom-to-features"
]From documentation of geometry.buffer:
Buffers a set of geometries by some distance to create a multi-part polygon geometry. The distance value respects the user's preferences and falls back on the default configured for the viewer session.
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Thank you Nico for the information! Now I see that VSW has a "Show Buffer Settings" command, which allows end user to set buffer units and distance.
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The esteemed Cam Barnard has updated the matrix for the Web 5.28 release.
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Hi Cam,
I am looking for equivalent tools of GVH "Save Results" and "Open Saved Results" in VSW. Per VertiGIS Tech Support, VSW does not have this functionality. I don't see it in the matrix, do we plan to implement this functionality in VSW?
Thanks, Michelle
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Is 'Starred results' an alternative?
Starred results allow you to build a starred results-of-interest collection across multiple search and identify operations, and to easily load that starred collection into view at any time. The UI has been updated to show a star-shaped toggle switch in places where users normally interact with results.
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Michelle Wang
Short answer: No, there are no current plans to re-implement this.
Long answer:
When we first built GVH we tried to extent or improve on the 'starred results' feature found in the Silverlight Viewer.
We created the ability to save a set of results and give it a name, and to re-load those named result sets.
We also create the ability to perform actions on results sets (union, intersection).
These were 'session only', so without Saved Projects there was no persistence.
This functionality was released but did not satisfy the market majority who were looking for a simpler way to build up a set of starred results (like they had in Silverlight). We eventually built the starred results feature for GVH.
When it came time to look at what we were going to implement in VSW, I took the lessons learned, and did some customer research as well. Less then 0.2% (i.e. you can count them on one hand) were aware of, understood, or were using the saved results.Based on that, and that all the clamor went away in GVH when we provided the market with starred results, we decided not to implement saved results 'sets' in VSW, but rather just to do a great Starred Results implementation.
... if you are still reading. When we implemented the starred results feature, behind the scenes we did implement low-level support for results sets by allowing results.add results.clear and other results commands to optionally take a TargetsResultsSet argument. This means that if this functionality is important to you, you could write some basic workflows that would allow for the saving, loading, clearing of named results sets ... but there aren't out of the box 'tools' to do this for you.
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Thank you Nico for your suggestion. "Starred results" function puts all identified features in one result set; we would like to have a way to allow users to maintain multiple collections of features from different identify / search results.
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Thank you Cam for the explanation and the direction of implementing the functionality using workflow and the low-level support for results sets. I submitted a ticket to VertiGIS Support asking for a way of implementing this function in VSW and was suggested to post it as an idea to the community. That was the reason I posted my question here. Good to know that there is a way to do it.
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Question: when VSW is going to support uploading address file (Excel or CSV) and perform batch geocode?
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Thanks for the update. I was curious when “Edit feature attribute within a data grid” aka edit multiple features at one time. will be added?
Thanks
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Greetings --
In reviewing the (GVH) - (VSW) Feature Comparison Matrix, I noticed the Upload KML to dynamic feature layer is missing in 5.30. Any updates on getting this feature added?
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Hey Cam Barnard,
I'm using VSW 5.31, and I've a question about one of your matrix items:
Single-click on markup features to begin editing them (can be configured)The only way I've seen to single-click a feature to begin editing is if I add a custom command which starts sketching, gets map markup, and enables you to edit it. I assume you could set the Map component's map clicked event to do this, but I already have that event set to run an identify on certain layers and display a popup. Is there any other way to get this single-click start edit action?
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I noticed that the new VertiGIS Studio Web 5.35 was released yesterday. I was wondering if there are any updates on the KML/KMZ upload feature that was mentioned inside the matrix?
I also saw that the “planned” tag has been added to this thread. Can you share any additional information or estimated timelines for when this might be available?
Thanks in advance for any updates you can provide!
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Hi, is it likely that the ability to “dynamically symbolize layers based on attributes with class breaks and unique value renderer” will be on the development roadmap for Web in the near future. It's something that our users found valuable in the HTML5 viewer. Thanks in advance for any update.
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In GVH, there is a setting to control which relationships for a layer are visible, and which are not. Is something like that planned for Web as well (or is it already there and I cannot find it?)
There is a setting to hide all relationships from a result, but that also hides datalink-workflow, and relationships that I do want to see.
BTW, the PDF linked to in the first message has an expired SSL certicate (July 21st 2025), can that be fixed?
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