Military Aspects of Terrain

Publish Obstacles & Lines of Communication

This exercise will show you how to use the Operational Environment geodatabase to publish map services for obstacles and a Lines of Communication (LOCs). In turn these map services can be used as base layers for analytic and operational maps. You will publish these services using map documents included in the template and your existing Operational Environment geodatabase features.

Publishing Obstacles to the server

This process must be done on the server where the map services will be published. You must have a Publisher connection to the ArcGIS Server instance where the services will be published. Steps for this process are in Set up Operational Environment

  1. Browse to template location/Military Aspects of Terrain Template/Maps
  2. Double-click on Publish Obstacles.mxd.

    The map opens in ArcMap. In the Table of Contents you will see all of the layers have broken links (as indicated by red exclamation marks: ! ) meaning the path to these datasets are not valid. You will be replacing the paths to the layers using your own data.

  3. Expand the first group layer, Obstacles 10M.
  4. Click on the red exclamation mark next to the first layer, Hydrography Curves. The Set Data Source dialog appears.
  5. In the Set Data Source dialog that appears, navigate to the HydrographyCurves feature class in Operational_Environment\Data\Topographic\utds.gdb\utds geodatabase.

    All of the broken data sources should be fixed, not just HydrographyCurves.

  6. Click Add.
  7. Save the map document.
  8. Click File and select Share As Service.

    9. The Share as Service window opens.

  9. Select Publish a service and click Next.
  10. Under Choose a connection select the Server Publisher connection you made in the setup topic.
  11. Type Obstacles in Service name.
  12. Select an existing folder under Use existing folder or create a new one.
  13. Click Continue.

    The Share as Service window closes and the Service Editor opens.

  14. In Service Editor select Item Description in the left pane.

    The Item Description parameters show in the right pane.

  15. Edit the Summary, Tags, Description, and Credits as necessary.
  16. Click Analyze in the Service Editor toolbar.

    The Prepare window shows any problems that must be fixed (Errors), things that could cause performance problems (Warnings) and other information (Messages). All Errors must be fixed before you can publish the service.

  17. Click Publish.

    The Obstacles service will be published to your server. If the publish fails, recheck the steps above, especially Analyze. Otherwise test the new Obstacles service by opening in a separate ArcMap or ArcGIS Explorer.

  18. Close ArcMap.

Publishing Lines of Communication to the server

Publishing the Lines of Communication as a map service is the same as publishing Obstacles. However you will be using the Publish LOC.mxd from the template's Maps folder.

  1. Browse to template location/Military Aspects of Terrain Template/Maps
  2. Double-click on Publish LOC.mxd.
  3. Expand the first group layer, Air LOC.
  4. Click on the red exclamation mark next to the first layer, Airport Features. The Set Data Source dialog appears.
  5. In the Set Data Source dialog that appears, navigate to the AeronauticPnt feature class in Operational_Environment\Data\Topographic\utds.gdb\utds geodatabase.

    All of the broken data sources should be fixed, not just AeronauticPnt.

  6. Click Add.
  7. Save the map document.
  8. Click File and select Share As Service.

    The Share as Service window opens.

  9. Select Publish A Service and click Next.
  10. Under Choose a connection select the Server Publisher connection you made in the setup topic.
  11. Type LinesOfCommunication in Service name.
  12. Click Next.
  13. Select an existing folder under Use existing folder or create a new one.
  14. Click Continue.

    The Share as Service window closes and the Service Editor opens.

  15. In Service Editor select Item Description in the left pane.

    The Item Description parameters show in the right pane.

  16. Edit the Summary, Tags, Description, and Credits as necessary.
  17. Click Analyze in the Service Editor toolbar.

    The Prepare window shows any problems that must be fixed (Errors), things that could cause performance problems (Warnings) and other information (Messages). All Errors must be fixed before you can publish the service.

  18. Click Publish.

    The LinesOfCommunication service will be published to your server. If the publish fails, recheck the steps above, especially Analyze. Otherwise test the new Lines Of Communication service in a separate ArcMap or ArcGIS Explorer.

  19. Close ArcMap.

In this exercise you used two map documents to publish feature layers from the Operational Environment geodatabase as map services.

For further information on processes used in the exercise:

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