Once you have purchased ArcGIS Navigator licenses, follow the steps below to configure your portal to support the Navigator app.
- Assign licenses to portal members.
- Download mobile map packages from My Esri or create custom mobile map packages in ArcGIS Pro. Host them on a web server.
- Register the mobile map packages with the portal.
Members can then sign in to the portal with the Navigator app, download map packages for their work, and navigate offline. See the ArcGIS Navigator help for details.
Manage mobile map packages
Navigator users who are signed in to your portal see the mobile map packages that you have made available for download. You can obtain map packages created by Esri from My Esri or create your own map packages in ArcGIS Pro and upload them to your portal. To make mobile map packages available to Navigator app users, you must register them with your portal.
ArcGIS Enterprise portals come with a Navigator Maps group owned by esri_nav. This group is prepopulated with items created by Esri. You can browse the contents of the Navigator Maps group to see each item's description, thumbnail, and other information.
Follow these steps to access the items in the Navigator Maps group:
- Sign in to the portal.
- Open Groups > My Organization's Groups.
- Click the Navigator Maps group.
This opens the item page for the group.
- To see all items in the group, click View All Group Content.
- You can click any of the items to open its detail page.
When the portal is first created, these items are not linked to any map packages. To populate the items with content or update an item's content, download map packages from My Esri, host them on your own web server, and register the hosted packages with the portal.
Use the mobile map package tool (managemmpks) that is installed with Portal for ArcGIS to register these packages. You can also use this tool to update, unregister, and list the mobile map packages in your portal as needed.
Note:
To use ArcGIS Navigator, portal members must have Navigator licenses assigned to them.
Download mobile map packages provided by Esri
To download the mobile map packages provided by Esri, follow these steps.
- Log in to My Esri and click My Organizations > Downloads > Data and Content.
- Type Navigator in the search text box and choose the sort option you want from the Sort By drop-down list.
- Scroll through the list of mobile map packages to find the files you want.
- Click Download for each mobile map package you want to provide to Navigator app users. Download the files one at a time.
- Place the downloaded map packages in a location that is web accessible. For example, if you're using IIS as your web server, you can place the downloaded files in the XXXXXXXXXX\wwwroot\ folder or another location that is configured as a virtual directory.
The URL to the web server where you place map package files is the base URL you will provide when using the managemmpks tool to register and manage packages.
- Enable the .mmpk extension as MIME type. For example, if using IIS as your web server, follow these steps.
- Open IIS Manager.
- In the Connections pane, select your server in the tree view and double-click MIME Types.
- In the Actions pane, click Add.
- For File name extension, type .mmpk.
- For MIME type, enter application/mmpk.
- Restart your web server.
Register mobile map packages
Once you have acquired mobile map packages and hosted them on a web server, register them with your portal. Any updates to the mobile map packages must also be communicated with the portal. Your portal includes a portal item for each mobile map package. Registering your mobile map packages updates these portal items to reference the URL of the .mmpk files on your web server.
You can register and manage mobile map packages with the managemmpks tool. This tool is installed with Portal for ArcGIS in the <Portal for ArcGIS installation directory>\tools\managemmpks directory. You will be prompted for the portal administrator user name and password when you run the managemmpks tool.
The managemmpks tool allows you to register one or more mobile map packages at a time with your portal. The tool takes the portal item names as input, not the names of the map packages. Therefore, you need to know the names of the existing portal items before you register. To get this list, you can use the --preinstalled command with the managemmpks tool, or browse the contents of the Navigator Maps group.
Type managemmpks --help to get help with the tool syntax.
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