Spectrum Spatial (SSA/LIM)

I have implemented dynamic linking software at a client site that links to and from SSA, and was wondering if SSA's linking capabilities can be customised.

When carrying out a link to SSA from another application (e.g. a property and rating system), SSA responds by selecting an object or a number of objects. The selection is included as a new layer within the Map Legend. Preferred functionality would be for no new layers to be created. This seems to be the case when performing multi-select. As with multi-select, the user can then add the selection as an Annotation layer if they wish.

However, to have a new layer created automatically each time a link is performed is an issue, since many new layers could potentially be created, which will become confusing to the user.

This is Amazing. Can i know how did you do that ?

@Krishna Bejawada? have a look at External Application Links

http://support.pb.com/help/analyst/12.2/admin_guide/en/index.html#appendix/appendixC.html

@James Nolet? I agree, it would be good if there was a way to set applinking to reuse a single linking query so that each subsequent linkin replaced the previous one.

Thanks for the feedback @Krishna Bejawada? and @Duri Bradshaw? .

To communicate with an existing instance of SSA the Applinking/nodejs tool (provided by P/B) needs to be running. This runs in the background and monitors a "Link In" location on your hard drive. If it detects a new link file (in xml format), it responds by reading in the property numbers or other link values and selecting corresponding objects within the specified map layer.

If SSA is not already running, or if you want to start a new instance, the link can be performed via URL parameters instead.

Currently, because a new layer is created each time a link to an existing instance is performed, our client has requested that this feature is turned off. Instead we start up a new SSA instance each time via URL parameters.

We still make use of the Applinking tool when linking from SSA. This works well.

It would be great if the functionality when linking to SSA could be customised to not create a new layer or, as Duri suggests, re-use the same layer.