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Create a default map

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Once Esri Maps for IBM Cognos is installed and configured in your environment, report authors can create reports augmented with maps. If your organization wants to standardize a template, or default, from which report authors start creating maps, you can ask a report author to create the default map using Esri Maps Designer.

Once the default map has been configured, the map specification (accessed by clicking Advanced > Show map specification in the map in Esri Maps Designer) can be copied to the appropriate section in map_configuration.json.txt.

  1. On each EM4C Gateway in your environment, make a copy of map_configuration.json.txt.default, located at <em4c_location>\webcontent\esrimap\em4c-bisprovider\config\design.
  2. Rename the copy to map_configuration.json.txt.
  3. In the appropriate section of map_configuration.json.txt, paste the map specification you copied from Advanced > Show map specification in the map in Esri Maps Designer.
  4. Validate your JSON code using a validation tool such as JSONLint.
    Note:

    Specifying a default map in this way will override the Default Basemap setting in your ArcGIS organizational account.

  5. Save and close the file.