Create the Space Planner app

Available for an ArcGIS organization licensed with the Indoors extension.

To create an Indoor Space Planner app, use the Indoor Space Planner web map you prepared, shared, and configured as the starting point.

Verify your map and layers online

Check out the Space Planner web map after publishing it and ensure that the required layers and tables are in your portal. Share the map as needed to members of your ArcGIS organization and save any required changes. This verification is important. Required layers for Space Planner must be in place and shared properly for the app to be successfully deployed.

Create the Space Planner app

Once the Space Planner web map is configured and the required layers and tables have been verified, you can create the Space Planner app from the Space Planner web map item page.

  1. Verify that you are signed in to the portal and have the privileges to create content.
  2. Browse to your Space Planner web map and click the map title.

    The map's item page appears.

    Note:

    It's possible to access the configurable app template elsewhere in your ArcGIS organization, but it's recommended to start from an Indoors web map item page.

  3. Click Create Web App and click Configurable Apps.

    The Create a web app window appears.

  4. Click in the search box and type Indoor.
  5. Choose the Indoor Space Planner template.

    If you don't see the Indoor Space Planner template, verify that your ArcGIS organization is licensed for ArcGIS Indoors.

  6. Choose CREATE WEB APP.
  7. Provide the title, tags, summary, and folder.
  8. Click Done.

The Space Planner app is created with your Space Planner web map as the source and the Configure App panel enabled. You can switch to a different Space Planner web map in the app configurator or make additional configuration changes, including setting merge permissions or configuring automatic sign out. Otherwise, you can close the configurator and start creating plans on the map you specified. The minimum requirement to configure an app is that you choose a Space Planner web map.

Set merge permissions

You can enable a group of members of your ArcGIS organization with merge permissions. This will allow members of a specified group to merge space plans. If no group is chosen, anyone who can edit plans can also merge them.

Complete the following steps to enable this option in the app and choose a group with merge permissions:

Note:

Ensure changes are saved in the Configure App panel before closing it.

  1. Create a group in your ArcGIS organization that contains members you want to have permission to merge plans.
  2. Enable the option to Restrict merging capability to authorized users only in the Configure App panel.
  3. Choose the group you created in step 1 from the drop-down list.
  4. Click Save.

Configure automatic sign out

You can configure options to automatically sign someone out of the app after a period of inactivity in the App Auto-Sign out section of the Configure App panel. This can help prevent access to corporate floor plans and other related indoor information by people that may have access to staff computers when staff are away.

ParameterDescription

Enable auto-sign out for app inactivity

Turn this option on to use the automatic sign out feature.

Idle Time (seconds)

Specify an amount of time (in seconds) that the app can be left idle before displaying a pop-up to determine whether the app is still in use.

Popup Time (seconds)

Specify the duration of the timer (in seconds) displayed in the inactivity pop-up. When the countdown reaches zero, the user is signed out of the app.

Complete the following steps to configure the automatic sign out:

Note:

Ensure changes are saved in the Configure App panel before closing it.

  1. Click the Enable Auto-Sign out for app inactivity toggle button to turn the automatic sign out feature on.

    The Idle Time (seconds) and Popup Time (seconds) parameters are enabled.

  2. Specify a duration for Idle Time (seconds).

    This is how many seconds the app can be left idle before displaying a pop-up to determine whether the app is still in use.

  3. Specify a duration for Popup Time (seconds).

    This is how many seconds the pop-up displays before anyone that is signed in is signed out. The duration is included in the pop-up and counts down.

  4. Click Save.

    A confirmation that your configuration was saved appears.

    Tip:

    You can do one of the following at any point of the configuration process:

    • Click Save to save the recent updates.
    • Click Save As to save a copy of the existing app configuration.
    • Click the Close button Close at the top of the Configure App panel to close it.

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