Creating Projects

To create a new project, press Create in the section listing the projects. Projects are created by walking through a wizard.

Identification
Name	Enter a name for the new project. The name must be unique.
Description	Optionally enter a description for the new project. Used for administrative purposes.
Default language	Among the languages available, select the one that will be used by default when the requested language is unavailable or when translations are missing. For more information, refer to the Multilingual Projects section.
Available languages	Select one or more languages that will be supported by the project. All text elements in the project’s configuration (name of project, names of layers, mouseover bubbles, etc.) will have to be translated into each supported language. At least one language must be selected. For more information, refer to the Multilingual Projects section.
Usage statistics	Select this option if you wish to obtain usage statistics regarding this project, the layers it contains, and the public contexts that are created in the JMap Pro applications deployed from this project.
Automatically invalidate Mapbox tile cache	Select this option if you want to automatically invalidate the Mapbox tile cache. Mapbox is used to produce vector tiles for some of the project’s layers and thus improve the performance and rendering of JMap Survey and JMap NG applications. Refer to Vector tiles in JMap for more information on this topic. Mapbox vector tiles can be produced in advance and cached. The following article offers details on how to create and manage the Mapbox cache. The Mapbox cache is automatically deleted when: a layer is published, a published layer is deleted, attributes that are bound to a layer are added or deleted, a layer’s base filter changes, the spatial data source of a layer changes, or the project is deleted. The Mapbox cache is not automatically deleted when: an unpublished layer is added to the project, an unpublished layer is deleted from a project, minor changes are made to a layer (style, thematics, mouseover), or the order of attributes bound to a layer changes.

Parameters
Map projection	Determines how the data will be displayed in the client applications. Any data that is in a different projection will be converted on the fly to this projection. Note that changing the map projection of a project invalidates the layer cache. This can temporarily reduce the performance of applications.
Map unit	The map unit is automatically selected according to the selected map projection.
Display unit	The unit used to display map coordinates.
Measurement	Geodetic: Distance and area measurements will be made using spherical calculations based on the projection’s ellipsoid. Cartesian using: Distance and area measurements will be made from calculations on the two-dimensional plane using the specified projection.
Distance unit	The unit used to display distances (measurements, zoom levels, etc.).
Minimum scale	The minimum scale of the map. Users cannot zoom out further when this limit is reached. When you check this option the default value is 1:1.
Maximum scale	The maximum scale of the map. Users cannot zoom in further when this limit is reached. When you check this option the default value is 1:1.
Background color	Default color to use for the background of the map.
Default selection color	Color of selected objects on the map. It can also be defined for each layer.

Project source

When creating a project, you can either create a new empty project or import an existing project configuration from another source. When you use an existing configuration, you can automate the creation of the project’s layers and avoid reconfiguring everything in JMap Admin. Currently, only one option is available for importing a project configuration: importing projects from an ESRI ArcGIS REST Service.

Importing ArcGIS REST projects

You can choose to import the layer configuration from an ESRI ArcGIS REST service. JMap will import the project’s parameters, the layers and their symbology, the scale parameters, the extents, etc.

Select the ArcGIS REST option and click on Next.

ArcGIS REST
URL	Enter the URL of the ArcGIS Server REST service (e.g. http://sampleserver1.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services). Afterwards, click on Load to show the list of available layers.
Username	Enter the username to authenticate and log in to the ArcGIS REST service.
Password	Enter the password to authenticate and log in to the ArcGIS REST service.
Layers	Select the layers whose configurations you wish to import. JMap creates a layer in the project for each imported layer. The configuration of the JMap layer is similar to that of the original layer, but there may be some differences.

JMap supports the import of OGC WMTS raster layers.

In the REST service layer import interface, icons indicate layers whose format is not compatible with JMap.