Workbook Share Wizard

The wizard release workbook leads you in several steps to the finished easymap explorer-map, which you can view in your browser.

Most of the settings are taken from the present map folder. Please also refer to the section Information for the map creator.

Log in on easymap explorer Portal

To be able to release the workbook, you must first log in with your access data on the easymap explorer - Register the server. Select the server on which you want to publish the workbook. This can be theeasymap explorer Cloud Service (https://easymap-xplorer.de) or a company owned server

easymap explorer cloud service

Im ersten Dialogfenster werden Sie nach den Anmeldeinformationen zum (fehlender oder ungültiger Codeausschnitt)-Portal gefragt. Um sich anzumelden, klicken Sie auf Weiter und Sie werden zum Login-Fenster weitergeleitet.

If you do not use your own server, you can use our easymap explorer Cloud Service is available. There you can choose between different login procedures:

easymap explorer Account
business account
Microsoft account

These login data are saved for the next release of a workbook.

The login data depends on which server you are using. If you have your own server you may be able to log in with your Windows login, in all other cases you have to enter the special login data for the easymap explorer Specify server.

If you use the Windows login (business account) for logging in, no further settings need to be made here. However, your administrator must enable you to use the server in this case.

Delete login information

Click Login Information Delete to delete previously specified login information and log another user in.

Create free trial account

If you are not yet registered as a user on the server, you can create a test account here. For more information, here.

Note: If you click Next without having entered valid credentials, you will be prompted again to enter them. Otherwise, the wizard will not be able to continue.

Publishing mode

In this step, select whether you want to upload a new workbook, create a new workbook with a template, or replace an existing workbook.

New - Create new workbook,
New - using a template - Create new workbook / use existing workbook as template
Refresh - Update existing workbook

The last two options open another window in which all the card folders from the easymap explorer Portal are listed. These are sorted by category and by personal or company workbooks. Only those maps are listed for which you have authorization to edit or delete.

Settings

Here you specify some additional information that is to be displayed in the context of your map in the easymap explorer should be displayed. You can still display this information later in the easymap explorer-Edit portal.

If you are replacing an existing map folder, the specifications are already preset with the settings of the map folder to be replaced.

The following settings are available:

Title	The title is displayed in the easymap explorer used as a heading, e.g. in the map catalog, map view or content window.
Description	A description is useful to provide the viewer with information about the workbook. Here you can, for example, describe the contents of the workbook, specify sources or insert further links. See Format descriptions for how to format the text you type or insert links.
View permission	Specify here which user group the workbook may retrieve. Clicking the button will show you all the people who are in the respective group.
Edit/Delete permission	Specify here which user group the workbookn may edit or replace in addition to viewing. Clicking the button will show you all the people who are in the respective group.
Category	Categories are used in easymap explorer Portal for sorting the different workbooks in the map catalogue. Create a new rubric by clicking the button and writing the name of the new rubric, or assign the map folder to an already existing rubric. Clicking on the button will show you all the workbooks that are in the respective section.
Preview	In the preview you can see the map sheets available in the workbook. The preview image that you select here is displayed in the easymap explorer displayed in the map catalog. You can use the two arrow buttons below the preview image to select another map. The ... button allows you to select another file instead of the map as a preview graphic - e.g. your logo.

Formatting Descriptions

For the description field of a published workbook and for the data display in the info window in easymap explorer use HTML commands. These will later be converted into corresponding representations or hyperlinks in the browser. These columns can also be created via calculations in easymap.

The description field has some common formatting for you as buttons. Simply select the text you want to format and click the H1 button to highlight the text as the first heading.

HTML commands for displaying a text

order	Description
<b></b>	Text formatting Bold
<u></u>	Text formatting Underline
<br></br>	NewLine
<p></p>	Paragraph (paragraph)
<img src=“url“></img>	Photo
Example: <img src=“http://www.easymap24.de/images/easymapeditionen.png“> </img>

HTML commands for creating lists or headings

order	Description
<h1> + <h2> + <h3>	Headings with different formats
<ul>	Unordered list
<ol>	Numbered list
<li>	list entry

HTML commands for hyperlink creation

order	Description
<a href="url"	link
target="_blank">text </a> hyperlink url	URL for the link
target="_blank">	Link will open in a new tab
Text Text	Link in browser
Example: <a href="http://www.lutumtappert.de" target="_blank">Website</a>

Note: If the error "Expression expected" occurs during creation via calculations, the HTML command must be formatted as text ("..."). Note that double quotation marks in the HTML tag must be changed to single quotation marks. Example: "<a href='http://www.lutumtappert.de' target='_blank'>LT</a>".

Click on Advanced Settings to display the contents shown in the map in the easymap explorer to configure