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Earthlight start parameters

Earthlight start parameters

Owned by Robert Sikorski
Last updated: 02 Sept 2024

Earthlight can be fed with a set of URL parameters to automatically log in a user, display a set point on map and execute Inspect query in this point.

List of available parameters:

loginuser login (required)
passworduser password (required)
mapcomplete path to desired map (folder and name). Required if no map is set as a default map for the user, or if the search is supposed to be executed on a non-default map
xeasting of the centre of the displayed map
ynorthing of the centre of the displayed map
scalescale of the displayed map
drill_downInspect tool execution
inspect_tablename of the table to be searched (the name has to include the database schema i.e. dbo.my_table)
inspect_fieldname of the searched field in the inspect_table
inspect_valuevalue to be looked for in inspect_field
select_tablename of the table to be selected (the name has to include the database schema i.e. dbo.my_table)
select_fieldname of the selected column from the select_table
select_valuevalue to be selected from the select_field
show_only_selectionwhen set to true, only selected records will be displayed on the map
beacon

when equals true, a pulsing symbol will be displayed in the map centre. Can be helpful to keep track of the initial map location

flowtag of a flow that should be automatically started once the map is loaded


  • to start Earthlight with a set of parameters enter your default Earthlight map URL address followed by question mark (?) and the set of parameters, e.g.: http://www.london.gov.uk/earthlight.html?login=user25&password=pass25&x=123456&y=654321
  • each parameter name has to be followed by an equals sign (=) and its value, e.g. login=user25
  • parameters are separated with an ampersand (&), e.g. login=user25&password=pass25
  • map value has to be a complete path to the desired map (including folder name)


Important:

all whitespaces in any of the parameters value have to be encoded i.e. replaced with %20 entries, e.g. My Value –> My%20Value

  • there are two ways of setting map’s viewpoint:
    • using pair of easting and northing parameters (much like Go To Coords tool)
    • using inspect_table, inspect_field, inspect_value set of parameters (much like Find In Layer tool)
  • drill_down has only one value drill_down=true (this parameter can be omitted if Inspect tool execution is not required)


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