Application Link-in

An Application Link-in allows you to access Spectrum Spatial Analyst from an external application.Spectrum Spatial Analyst is also capable of receiving a description of a selection set when started by an external application. In this event, Spectrum Spatial Analyst updates its current selection set to match the incoming selection description.

The following steps are needed to use the Link-in functionality on Analyst.

  1. Configure Generic Link Framework/External Application Bridge to generate Link-in file when Link-In is requested from third-party application.
  2. Refer Application Setup block of documentation to configure AppLinking.xml for Link-in.
  3. Start Application Linking Utility node server from command line. For more information, refer to Application Linking Installer documentation.
  4. Open Analyst in your browser and sign in to it.
  5. Now make a Link-in request from third-party application.
  6. You should be able to see the corresponding records in the search results panel of Analyst and the map layer added to the opened Mapconfig if the Mapconfig in AppLinking.xml for LinkIn is same as that of the MapConfig opened in Analyst, otherwise the Mapconfig of AppLinking.xml will be fetched and the Analyst view will be refreshed.
  7. You may click on any individual result in the Search Results panel to highlight the record on the map. Upon clicking, this record will also be added to the annotation.

Operations on Link-in Records In Analyst

  1. Once search results are in Analyst, you can clear search results and Map layer from Analyst once finished.
  2. You can restore Link-in Records in the search results view in Analyst if you switched to either Locator/DataBinding /FindNearest view by clicking the information Icon on the Legend corresponding to the Map layer.
  3. Results once cleared won’t be restored and you have to issue a fresh Link-in request from a third-party application.
  4. You can export to CSV records that are Linked In Analyst
  5. Apart from the above operation you can do all the usual operations with Map Layer Added.

Known Limitations

There can be only one set of Link-in records available at a time in Spectrum Spatial Analyst view. If you make a new Link-in request from a third-party application, the first request is overwritten. Link-in records on the map are represented by the colour Magenta on the map.