The first step that you need to take when configuring MyHouse MapSources is to either add an existing map source or create a new a new one. You can do this by right clicking on the MyHouse root icon 
and selecting either Import Existing MapSource or Create New MapSource. Any Map Source that you wish to use in My House, other than your BaseMaps, will need to be defined under the MyHouse node.
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You can change the number of columns displayed in My House by selecting the iShare Settings. In the General Settings under Web you will see the entry MyPagesColumns; change this to reflect the number of columns you wish to be displayed.
Display Name
Enter the name that you wish to appear on the tab for My House.
Page Type
Panels Page
This style is the default and is usually used for My House and presents the information in panels e.g.
Nearest Page
This style is used for My Nearest and displays the information as a list with expandable and collapsible Layer Groups e.g.
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Here you can select the type of search you wish to be performed for this map source.
House Search
This is the default option and will perform an address search.
Area Search
Selecting this option will perform allows the creation of a My Ward style page which show information for the area that the current address falls within. When a user visits such a page a point in polygon search . When you select this radio button you will also be asked for the Layer Name to be used as the polygon layer is used to find the polygon that the current address falls within then this polygon is used to query layers for features which fall within it.
A Search Layer (e.g. Wards wards) and the Search Field that is the unique id for the layer. Search Field (e.g. ward_code) must be specified. Area Search layers are defined in the mapfile specified via the Mapfile Path option above. This mapfile commonly only contains layers used for Area Searches. These layers are commonly polygon Shapefiles with a stable unique id such as a ward code which can be used to lookup a single polygon. An example LAYER entry is as follows:
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LAYER
# ward_lookup.shp has a single ward_code field
# which has a unique value for each ward polygon
DATA "D:\iShareData\Astun\ward_lookup.shp"
NAME "ward_lookup"
TYPE POLYGON
STATUS OFF
METADATA
"qstring_validation_pattern" "."
END
UNITS METERS
CLASS
NAME ' '
STYLE
OUTLINECOLOR 128 0 128
WIDTH 2
END
END
END |
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When creating layers within a Area Search MapSource the "Show My" option is generally used which will result in all features which fall within the current area polygon being selected. |
Lookup
Selection this option will perform a lookup in a Data Source. You will be asked to specify the Data Source, Layer Name and Search Field to be used to perform the lookup. The way that this works is:
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Selecting this option allows the creation of a My Ward style page which show information for the area that the current address falls within. When a user visits such a page a point in polygon search is used to find the polygon that the current address falls within then this polygon is used to query layers for features which fall within it.
A Search Layer (e.g. wards) and Search Field (e.g. ward_code) must be specified. Area Search layers are defined in the mapfile specified via the "Mapfile Path" option above. This mapfile commonly only contains layers used for Area Searches. These layers are commonly polygon Shapefiles with a stable unique id such as a ward code which can be used to lookup a single polygon. An example LAYER entry is as follows:
{code} LAYER # ward_lookup.shp has a single ward_code field # which has a unique value for each ward polygon DATA "D:\iShareData\Astun\ward_lookup.shp" NAME "ward_lookup" TYPE POLYGON STATUS OFF METADATA "qstring_validation_pattern" "." END UNITS METERS CLASS NAME ' ' STYLE OUTLINECOLOR 128 0 128 WIDTH 2 END END END{code}
When creating layers within a Area Search MapSource the "Show My" option is generally used which will result in all features which fall within the current area polygon being selected.