Arcadia Enterprise enables you to externalize an App Group as a standalone application.
In left navigation, click the group that you plan to export.
We are using the Documentation Collateral app group. Notice that it has three visuals in the main area of the interface, under the Documentation heading.
Click Launch App near the top of the screen.
A new tab appears in your browser window.
Open it to see the standalone application you just created.
Note the features of the standalone application, which here opened on a dashboard:
The (Link to this Page) option shows the specific URL address that you can copy and share with others. Pasting this URL into a browser brings up the identical app, open at the very same visual or dashboard.
Notice that the URL is of this type:
ip_address:port/arc/apps/appgroup/app-id?initialapp=vis-id
where:
ip-address
and port
specify the server where ArcViz runsapp-id
is the integer that specifies the id of the
externalized (launched) app vis-id
is the integer that specifies the id of the
dashboard or visualLastly, note that the externalized application is fully interactive. In this case, the initial conditions showed the Woods features in California.
Clicking on the Forest MA component of the left visual, Geo Data Bar Chart, changes the parameters that control the display in the target visual on the right. It refreshes to show the MA State Forest Geographical Features.
Hovering over the top right of the dashboard and clicking the (filter) icon shows the updated parameters and values.
If you use the (Link to this Page) option on the dashboard at this point of your investigation, you can see that the URL of the link changed. It now specifies these parameter settings:
state alpha = MA
feature class = Forest
record count = 93
ip_address:port/arc/apps/appgroup/app-id?initialapp=vis-id
¶m.state%20alpha=MA
¶m.feature%20class=Forest
¶m.record%20count=93
If you copy and share this URL, the visual opens, with initial conditions showing the map of MA (Maryland) and its 93 forests.
When a visual appears by itself in an externalized app, it has two control options at the top-right corner.
If an app uses the Display menu on left Settings option, then the navigation menu for the externalized app appears on the left. Notice also that you can toggle between showing and hiding the menu.