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About working with the Web Mapping Application
ArcGIS for Server contains a function to build feature-rich Web applications without writing code. ArcGIS Server Manager ("Manager")allows you to create and edit Web Mapping Applications that work with the geographic information system (GIS) capabilities of your server.
Manager is composed of a series of tabs that allows you to do the following:
- Select the layers, or services, to show from a GIS server. You also have access to ArcGIS Online services, Bing Maps, and Web Map Service (WMS) services. You can select one or more services for your application.
- Configure tasks that provide specific functionality, such as querying attributes, finding addresses, searching attributes, editing, and geoprocessing.
- Select map elements and tools, such as a table of contents (TOC), toolbar, overview map, scale bar, magnifier, and so on.
- Configure page properties and elements, such as title, themes, and links in the header.
The output from Manager is a Web Mapping Application, which is a predefined Web application ready for deployment.
You can open the Web Mapping Application generated by Manager in the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) and customize it to meet your requirements. The Web Mapping Application is also integrated with Visual Studio 2008 as a template. Whether created in Manager or Visual Studio, a Web Mapping Application contains standard Web page design elements, as well as Web controls. These Web controls include standard ASP.NET Web controls and Esri ADF-specific Web controls.
The following general levels of customizing a Web Mapping Application are available:
- Modifying properties of Web controls and making basic Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) modifications. This level of customization requires no programming.
- Programming using different application programming interfaces (APIs).
The ArcGIS for Server Help system includes discussion concepts and walkthroughs for Manager. For more information, see the following Help topics under the nodes in the TOC, Creating ArcGIS Server solutions, Managing your GIS Server, Creating Web applications, ArcGIS Server Manager, Creating a new Web application in manager.
Web Mapping Application layout
A Web Mapping Application created by Manager resembles the following screen shot:
Each Web Mapping Application includes a Help system that provides details of the application's components. Click the Help link available on the Link bar to open the Help included with the application.