Resource Properties

The Properties panel is accessible by the user through the Open Properties button in Homepage or from the Navigation bar inside the resource viewer.

From the Properties panel the user can view the resource information through the Info tab, the resource's permissions, if the user has edit permissions on the resource, through the Permissions tab and the resource details through the About tab.

By clicking the Edit properties button, the Admin or a Normal user with the necessary permissions can customize the resource by performing the following operations:

• Upload an image as a Thumbnail dropping it or clicking the button inside the Thumbnail box.

• Delete the Thumbnail clicking the button inside the Thumbnail box.

• Add Name, Description and Contact details

• Add Tags to the resource

• Disable the Advertised option to make the owner of the resource or the MapStore admin the only ones who can see and search that resource in the Home Page or in the Map Catalog tool.

• Enable the Featured option to add the resource to the featured resources list on the Home Page.

• From the Permissions tab, add a Permission rule

• From the About tab, add Details

When the user save the changes made by using the Save button, the Properties panel shows the creation and the last modification dates. An example in the image below:

Admin users can also see who created and modified the resource. An example in the image below:

Permission rules

From the Permissions tab, the users with the necessary permissions can set one or more permission rules in order to allow a group to access the resource. In particular it is possible to choose between a particular group of authenticated users or the everyone group that includes all authenticated users but also anonymous users (more information about different user types can be found in Homepage section).
Moreover it is possible to choose between two different ways with which the selected group can approach the resource:

• View the resource and save a copy

• Edit the resource and re-save it

In order to add a rule, the user can click the Add Permissions button that open a Groups pop-up in witch the user can add to the Permissions Groups list a group through the button.

Once the selected group is on the Permissions Groups list, the user can choose between View and Edit permission option.

Once a rule is set, the user can always remove it from the list through the Remove button or save the changes made using the Save button.

Details

It is possible to add details as additional information in form of descriptive content for the resource itself. This is useful to associate some information to the resource and provide an overview of its content. To do that the user can write the details of the resource from the About tab.

The text can be edited and some links and images can be added through the Text Editor Toolbar. Once the editing is done, the map details can be saved using the Save button.

From the Settings tab the user is allowed to:

• Enable the Show as modal, to show the details on a modal when the user clicks on button, which is listed in the Side Toolbar options

• Enable the Show at startup. If active, when the user opens a resource with defined details, these are visualized in a descriptive panel.