Sign in

Sign in to your organization for access to your content, group content, and your organization's content in your project. You can sign in to additional portals to use their content as well.

You can sign in to ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise by either signing in from the main menu or from the sign-in menu on the CityEngine toolbar. If you don't have an ArcGIS Online account, see Get new account to create a public account.

Note:

To access All Portal items in the Navigator and share your data with your organization and the public, sign in to a Portal.

Main menu

To sign in from the main menu, do the following:

  1. Start CityEngine.
  2. Click File > Sign in.
  3. Enter your username and password.

    The username is case sensitive; enter it exactly the same as when you created the account.

  4. Click Sign in.

    Check Sign me in automatically to have CityEngine remember your credentials and sign in to the Portal automatically; this option is checked by default.

Sign in menu

To sign in and manage your portals, do the following:

  1. Click the Sign in menu Sign in menu on the toolbar.
  2. Click Sign in to open the ArcGIS Sign In for CityEngine dialog box.
  3. Enter your username and password.

    The username is case sensitive; enter it exactly the same as when you created the account.

  4. Click Sign in.

    Check Sign me in automatically to have CityEngine remember your credentials and sign in to the Portal automatically; this option is checked by default.

Manage portals

You can work with content from many portals. To access another portal's content, you must first add a connection to the portal.

To add a portal connection, do the following:

  1. Click the Sign in menu Sign in menu on the toolbar.
  2. Click Manage Portals.

    The Portals dialog box under Preferences appears.

  3. Click Add new portal.

    The Add Portal dialog box appears.

  4. Enter the URL of the portal.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Enter your username and password.
  7. Click Sign In.

    You can add multiple portals following the same steps above.

Set the active portal

You can sign in to multiple portals but only one is the active portal to which you connect to ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise. To make a portal active, on the Preferences dialog box, do the following:

  1. Right-click the portal and select Set as active portal to make the portal active.
  2. Click OK.

    After you add the portal or portals, CityEngine will remember your connected portals the next time you start the application.

Switch the active portal

You can also switch the active portal from the Sign in menu Sign in menu on the toolbar. To switch the active portal, do the following:

  1. Click the Sign in menu Sign in menu on the toolbar.
  2. Click Switch active portal.

    This opens a drop-down list of all available portals.

  3. Click the portal you want to make active.
    Note:

    You may need to sign in to the portal you selected.