Browse content

Click Content at the top of the website to browse items using the My Content, My Favorites, My Groups, My Organization, and Living Atlas tabs.

When browsing content using the content page tabs, you can do any of the following to help you explore and find items:

• Display items in different ways using the view menu.
• Sort items using the available sort options (and reverse the sort order as needed).

• Limit the display to items that interest you using the filters on the left. For example, on most of the content page tabs, you can filter by item type, date modified, date created, tags, and how the item was shared. The Item Type filter has additional filters to further refine the results.

  To find items by location, use the Location filter. You can specify any of the following to find relevant items in your organization: places such as cities, counties, countries, and administrative boundaries; regions; and longitude and latitude coordinates. If your organization has multiple locators configured, choose the one you want to use to find items.

  To find items that have been marked as authoritative or deprecated in your organization, use the Status filter.

  If your organization is participating in a distributed collaboration and you have the appropriate privileges, you can use the Collaboration filter to only show collaborated content.

  If your portal administrator configured categories, you can also use the Categories filter on the My Content and My Organization tabs to find items. Even if your administrator did not configure categories, you can also filter Living Atlas content using the Categories filter on the Living Atlas tab. For groups that have group categories configured, group members can use these categories to filter group content from the My Groups tab.

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  When searching for apps, you can narrow your search to registered apps only by clicking the Registered Apps Only button under the Apps filter.

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  Active filters are shown at the top of the results page. Click the x next to a filter to clear it. To clear all active filters at once, click Clear filters.

• Explore content shared with you through a specific group by selecting the group on the left of the My Groups tab.

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  You can also view items shared with a specific group using the Content tab on the group page.

Search content

To search for specific items, you can enter English search keywords into the focused search box on any of the tabs on the content page. Only content relevant to that tab will be displayed. For example, you can search only your favorite items using the focused search box on the My Favorites tab. To narrow your search results, use the filters on the left. Use the view option buttons to change the way the results are displayed, and sort the items as needed.

If you'd rather search the entire website instead of searching using the tabs on the content page, use the search box at the top of the site to find maps, layers, apps, scenes, tools, files, and groups. Enter keywords in the search box and choose the type of items you're looking for from the search drop-down menu, for example, Search for Apps. A list of relevant results appears. If you don't see the result you expect, do any of the following to narrow or broaden your search results:

• To further refine your search results, use the filters on the left. For example, you can filter by item type, date modified, date created, tags, and how the item was shared. The Item Type filter has additional filters to further refine the results.

  To find items by location, use the Location filter. You can specify any of the following to find relevant items in your organization: places such as cities, counties, countries, and administrative boundaries; regions; and longitude and latitude coordinates. If your organization has multiple locators configured, choose the one you want to use to find items.

  To find items that have been marked as authoritative or deprecated in your organization, use the Status filter.

  If your organization is participating in a distributed collaboration and you have the appropriate privileges, you can use the Collaboration filter to only show collaborated content.

  If your portal administrator configured categories, you can also use the Categories filter on the My Content and My Organization tabs to find items. Even if your administrator did not configure categories, you can also filter Living Atlas content using the Categories filter on the Living Atlas tab. For groups that have group categories configured, group members can use these categories to filter group content from the My Groups tab.

  Tip:

  When searching for apps, you can narrow your search to registered apps only by clicking the Registered Apps Only button under the Apps filter.

  Tip:

  Active filters are shown at the top of the results page. Click the x next to a filter to clear it. To clear all active filters at once, click Clear filters.

• Sort search results using the available sort options (and reverse the sort order as needed).

Continue to refine your keywords and search again as needed to find the items you want. For example, if you want to find a street map, you could enter street and choose Search for Maps. You would see a list of all the maps related to streets. If the list is too long, you can filter the results for a category of maps—web maps or map files. You could also search again for streets AND europe and you would then see only street maps for Europe. You can also try an advanced keyword search to get the results you want.

Work with content

When you discover items by browsing and searching the content page and tabs or using the website search at the top of the site, you can view and access information about the items and work with them in various ways. For example, you can see an item's thumbnail, read a short summary about the item or open its item page to see more details, mark an item as a favorite, quickly see who owns the item and how many times it's been viewed, and open the item.

Do any of the following to work with items from the content page:

• Click a thumbnail image to open the item in the most appropriate app. For example, when you click a map thumbnail, it opens in Map Viewer; when you click a web app thumbnail, its website opens.
• Click the More Options button to select where the item opens. For example, you could choose to open a map in Map Viewer.
• To open the item page and see details about an item, click the item title or click the More Options button and click View item details.
• Click the owner name to learn about the author of the item. The profile includes links to the user's public items and groups.
• If you have privileges to create content, click Add Item on the My Content tab to add items from your computer, the web, or an application.
• If you have privileges to create content, click Create on the My Content tab to create new maps, scenes, hosted web layers, apps, and so on.
• If your portal administrator configured categories for the portal, you can categorize items you own or administer on the My Content tab by selecting one or more of your items and clicking Categorize.
• To delete an item, select the item you want to delete, click Delete, and confirm that you want to delete the item.
• To assign an item to a different owner, click the My Content tab, select the item, click Change Owner, select a new owner and folder, and click Change Owner. To do this, you must have privileges to reassign ownership of content.
• To move an item you own to a different folder, click the My Content tab, select the item, click Move, browse for a folder or create a new one, and click Move.
• To filter content by folder name on the My Content tab, type the name of the folder in the search box above your folders. Click the x to clear the filter.
• To share an item, select the item and click Share. Your privileges determine whether you are allowed to share the item and with whom you are allowed to share it.