After you have installed the client successfully, you will need to add a button to the ArcMap toolbar so you can start the client. To do so please activate the customize mode of Arcmap:
The customize dialog will appear. Switch to the
Commands tab and navigate to the entry
Java Comands. You should see a Command showing the 52°North logo and the text
Start WebGen WPS ArcMap Client:
You can now simply drag the Command with the mouse to a toolbar:
Close the customize dialog. A click on the command will bring up the client:
You can now type in an URL to a
WPS. If you have typed in URLs before these will appear in the drop-down box:
You can also remove
the URL or reload
it, for example if recently added processes are not shown. A click on the
Get Processes button will show the available processes:
You can also filter the list of processes. Simply type in characters the process must contain and click again on
Get Processes:
A click on one of the processes will show the inputs that are expected for this process:
If a input should require vector data, a list of available layers is shown for this input. After you have adjusted the inputs to your needs a click on
Execute will start the process. Log messages informing about the current status will be shown at the bottom of the client dialog:
Once the process is finished, the results tab is shown. Vector data can be added to the map, literal (e.g. text) data will be shown in text boxes:
Some processes need vector data sollowing a specific schema as input. The client automatically detects such inputs and activates a button
Map Schema next to them:
A click on this button brings up the schema mapping dialog:
Required attributes from the input schema are shown on the left. Available attributes from the selected layer are shown on the right. You can move the layer attributes up and down to match the semantic and data type of the respective schema attribute:
If you are finished, click on
Ok and the mapping is stored for the current process execution.