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Overview
What is a Hubsite?
A hubsite is a type of small website created with the GIS online program ESRI Hub. The point of the program is to connect webpages easily to an open data source within the organization - maps, surveys, and other data that we use ESRI for. The program is limited because it is not meant for long term or larger projects, but more as a platform for public outreach about projects, their progress, and other data that needs to display accurate and up to date GIS data.
Getting a Hubsite
Not all content should be a Hubsite. Some content should be a page on an already established hubsite, others a page on our main site, even others just a document. To find out if your content should be a hubsite, check the requirements below.
Requirements/Guidelines on what may need a hubsite:
- A temporary project or initiative with meetings and surveys
- An entity with its own rules, hours, schedule of events
- An ongoing program that may produce small projects or meetings
To request a new hubsite, use this ticket form so we can help you efficiently.
Tips on Usage
- Save vs Publish
- Hubsite keeps multiple "versions" of each page at a time. There is a draft version and a published version. Think of the draft version like your local, hidden version, and the published version as everyone else's view*.
- Save updates the draft version only. Publish updates the published view*. This can be helpful when you wish to update a page ahead of a publish date.
- *The published view is available to different people depending on the settings of the page - more details on this are in the "Editing Hubsite Content on Pages"
- Do not have multiple people working on the same page at the same time!