Starting Out with Your ArcGIS Hubsite

Overview

  • There are two types of "saving" within hubsites: Saving and Publishing.
    • Saving ensures that your work is not lost, but it does not update the site that other viewers will see.
    • Publishing updates the front, live view of the website for your viewers
  • There are a couple of different view permission settings that you can choose from for your hubsite pages. Please note that this is PER PAGE, listed next to the save drop down. 
    • You can have an entire hubsite that is visible to the public with one single page that is only visible to you, or a website that everyone in the organization can see with one page visible to the public, and any combination of those.
    • Remember that if it is saved and not published, only when anyone goes into the edit mode will they able to see it.

Sections

  1. Accessing Your Site
  2. navigating between pages
  3. saving and publishing
  4. sharing your site with others

Accessing Your Site 

1. Navigate to the link you were given for your site.

2. Click on "Sign In"

3. Click on the ArcGIS Online Matanuska-Susitna Borough button. Your Microsoft credentials are linked to esri for easier access.

4. Once your login is successful, you can click on the Pencil/Edit button to begin editing this page, or any other within your hubsite.

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navigating between pages

2. If you are on the home page, you can easily get to the whole list of pages by clicking on the page icon with the number.

3. From here, you can see your pages and click on any of their titles to navigate to that page.

4. Once you are on any page that is not the home page, to get back to the home, you can either hit the "Pages" link at the top to get back to that page list.

5. Or, you can click on the arrow here (it will have your site name instead)

6. Click "Site Home"

saving and publishing

1. Click "Save" to save your progress for yourself and other editors. 

2. Click the dropdown

3. Click "Publish Draft". Remember that this publishes to the front for only the individuals that are listed to the left of the save button. 

 

sharing your site with others - FYI

Changing the permissions of who can view the pages is part of the administrator role, and can only be done by the Web or GIS team. You can upgrade or downgrade who can see it at any time. However, please note that if you downgrade a public page to a lesser permission, the users will get a "you do not have permissions to view this page" error if they return. 

There are a couple of different view permission settings that you can choose from for your hubsite pages. Please note that this is PER PAGE. You can have an entire hubsite that is visible to the public with one single page that is only visible to you, or a website that everyone in the organization can see with one page visible to the public, and any combination of those. Remember that if it is saved and not published, only when you go into the edit mode will anyone with access be able to see it. Each of these icons will tell you who can see the page once you have published it.

On every page, you can see who can see it by looking here next to the save button.

Icons for who can see the published site:

  1. Two people - people within the edit group after login
    1. this setting is useful during build when you need 
  2. A building - anyone within your organization after login
    1. this setting is useful for internal hubsites, and during build to get feedback from anyone within the organization
  3. A Globe - public without login
    1. This setting is for when you are ready for the site to go live. 

 

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