Upgrading a provider

The original design of Infor Public Sector GIS uses SOAP map services to communicate with the GIS. You now also have the option to use REST map services as an alternative. To opt in to using the REST services, you can upgrade a provider in the MapDrawerProviders configuration.

After the upgrade the provider will use the REST services rather than SOAP to communicate with the GIS. The upgrade also updates the provider configuration by adding the AUTHENTICATION and SERVERS nodes under the provider node, and filling in the layer and field names.

This feature is only available if you're using the Configuration Editor applet in Infor Public Sector, not if you're using the Configuration Editor utility on the server.

Before upgrading a provider, you must ensure that the MapDrawerDatasets configuration is set up correctly. Either the DATASETS node must have no children, or the child Dataset nodes must have certain attributes populated. Any Dataset nodes that exist under the DATASETS node must have these attributes populated:

  • alias
  • cacheurl
  • cacheurltype
  • featureidfield
  • featuretype
  • name

To upgrade a provider, open the MapDrawerProviders configuration, right-click the node for your provider, and select Upgrade.

The upgrade uses the connection settings from the provider's config attribute to add the server and authentication settings to the configuration. After the upgrade the config attribute is blank because it's no longer used.

After upgrading a provider you must also synchronize your datasets.

See Synchronizing datasets.