5.4. Administrator interface (Admin console)
5.4.1. Authorization
To open the admin console, open the Web GIS and press “Sign in” in the top right corner.

Pic. 5.2. Signing in from Web GIS main page
In the opened dialog press the blue button that reads Sign in with NextGIS ID.

Pic. 5.3. Selecting sign-in via NextGIS
You will be redirected to my.nextgis.com authorization page. Enter your username or email you used for registration and your password.

Pic. 5.4. Signing in with NextGIS
After the authorization is completed successfully you will be redirected back to the Web GIS.
5.4.2. Home page
After login to administrative interface the user is taken to the home page shown on Pic. 5.5.

Pic. 5.5. Administrator interface home page
The numbers indicate: 1 - Main menu; 2 - User settings (Exit and Change language); 3 - Resource search bar in Web GIS 4 – Main resource group description; 5 - Child resources; 6 - User permissions for main resource group; 7 - Types of items that could be added to the main resource group; 8 - Actions that could be performed with main resource group
Home page includes a main menu pane, (see item 1 in Pic. 5.5.) which has the following links (see Pic. 5.6.):
Resources
Control Panel
Help
Account
Description pane (see item 4 in Pic. 5.5.) displays a main group description (if available).
Child resources pane (see item 5 in Pic. 5.5.) contains a list of all resources placed in a main group. In the form of a table, the parameters such as name, type and owner of the resource are available. At the same time there are buttons of different actions over resources (edit, delete, preview, open the attribute table).
User permissions pane (see item 6 in Pic. 5.5.) displays list of permissions the current user granted for the current group. Green and red marks indicate that user has/don’t have corresponding permission.
A - allow
D - deny
M - mask (indirectly deny)
E - empty (actually deny)
Possible permissions are the following:
All
Read
View permissions
Create
Update (Edit)
Delete
Manage children
Change permissions
Actions pane (see items 7 and 8 in Pic. 5.5.) contains tools for adding data and executing operations with the root group.
In current version it is possible to add the following types of data:
Basemap
Collector project
Lookup table
PostGIS connection
PostGIS layer
Raster layer
Resource group
TMS connection
TMS layer
Trackers group
Vector layer
Web Map
WFS service
WMS connection
WMS layer
WMS service
Depending on your NGW version may also be connected:
SVG marker library
3D model
3D scene
3D tileset
Possible operations are (see item 8 in Pic. 5.5.):
Update
Delete
5.4.3. Control panel
NextGIS Web Control panel is available through the main menu (see item 1 in Pic. 5.5.), where you need to select “Control panel” (see Pic. 5.6.). It is presented on Pic. 5.7..

Pic. 5.7. Control panel
Control panel allows to execute the following actions:
Manage NextGIS Web groups and users
Display information about the system and storage
Access cadaster services
Create user accounts for Collector projects
Set the name of your Web GIS
Configure CORS
Set CSS styles
Specify NGW start page (home path)
Set Logo (in the upper left corner)
Customize a type of users who have permission to export data
Customize Tracking
Customize Web Map
Add spacial reference systems
For more information about creation of user groups and users and granting permissions see topic Administrative tasks.
5.4.4. Resource view
After login to administrative interface the user is taken to home page shown on Pic. 5.8..

Pic. 5.8. Resource groups
To open a resource group and view the contents, click on it in the child resource pane.
Resource parameters are displayed after a click on the name of the resource in the list. User is taken to a page containing properties, attributes, user permissions, a link for external access and a list of child resources if there are any (see Pic. 5.9.).

Pic. 5.9. Vector layer parameters
5.4.5. Feature table
Some resources contain a set of features that can be viewed as a table. Press the “Table” icon opposite the resource name or select an action for a vector layer called “Table” in the features pane.

Pic. 5.10. Opening feature table from the resource list

Pic. 5.11. Opening feature table from the resource page
Feature table allows to perform the following operations with a selected record (see Pic. 5.12.):
Open
Edit
Delete
Use Search Box

Pic. 5.12. Actions for the selected record in the feature table
There is another way to open Feature table. In the adminitrative interface navigate to a child resource group where resource types are marked and find a resource with a type Web Map. Open it by clicking on the “Display” icon (see webmap_open_eng_pic
):

Pic. 5.13. Opening a Web Map from the list
Alternatively, you can go to the resource page and click “Display” in the Web Map actions pane on the right.

Pic. 5.14. Opening a Web Map from the resouce page
A Web Map will be opened with a layer tree (left) and a map (right). To view a feature table select the required layer in layer tree and then select “Feature table” command in the Layer drop down menu at the top of layer tree Pic. 5.15.:

Pic. 5.15. Opening feature table from the map
A table will be displayed in a new tab. Table allows to perform the following operations with a selected record Pic. 5.16.:
Open
Edit
Delete
Go to (after a click the selected feature will be displayed on the map)
Use Search Box

Pic. 5.16. Actions for the selected record in feature table
5.4.6. Update resource
In the group page press the pencil icon opposite the resource.
Alternatively, open the resource properties page and then select “Update” in the actions pane (see Pic. 5.17.).

Pic. 5.17. Selection of “Update” action in the actions pane
In opened window “Update resource” (see Pic. 5.18.) you can edit parent of the selected resource, add description, metadata and attributes of the resource.

Pic. 5.18. “Update resource” window
On the first tab “Resource” you can edit the next fields:
Display name (you can change the resource’s name)
Parent (you can change the resource group through moving the resource)
Owner
Keyname
You can move resources from one resource group to another. To do it press the arrow at the end of the Parent field and select resource group to move the resource to in the pop-up window (see Pic. 5.19.). Then press OK and Save button.

Pic. 5.19. Folder selection window
If the resource is moved successfully, the information about it appears in the new resource group and is removed from the previous one.
If in the selected folder there is already a resource with the same name as the one you want to transfer, it will not be moved and the following message will appear:

Pic. 5.20. Alert in case if the name is not unique
Close the alert window, change the name of the resource and try to change the parent again.
The tab “Description” allows to add text, links and images describing the resource.

Pic. 5.21. “Description” tab
The tab “Metadata” allows to add and delete metadata, and to display them in a table using “Add” (Text, Integer, Float) and “Remove” operations:

Pic. 5.22. “Metadata” tab
The table contains three columns:
Key. It allows to describe metadata features (author, date, version etc.)
Type: String, Numer, Boolean, Empty (if you select “Empty”, the value field will be cleared)
Value. Value corresponds to the key type
The tab “Attributes” contains a table with vector layer attributes (see Pic. 5.23.).

Pic. 5.23. “Attributes” tab
Tick in “FT” column means that the attribute is displayed in the identification window.
Tick in “LA” column means that the attribute is used for bookmarks.
For each field name you can set the display name to use it in the identification window instead of the keyname.

Pic. 5.24. The identification window
5.4.7. Delete resource
Web GIS allows to delete uploaded data through deleting of the corresponding resources.
In the group page press the cross icon opposite the resource.

Pic. 5.25. Deleting resource from the group
A pop-up window for confirmation will appear. Click Delete to confirm.

Pic. 5.26. Confirmation to delete a resource
Alternatively, open the resource page and then select “Delete” in the actions pane (see Pic. 5.27.).

Pic. 5.27. Selection of “Delete” action in the action pane
In the opened “Delete resource” window you need to tick “Confirm deletion of the resource” and press Delete button.

Pic. 5.28. “Delete resource” window
If the resource was deleted successfully, the information about it disappear from the corresponding resource group.
5.4.8. Data export
NextGIS Web allows you to export data in the following formats:
CSV for Microsoft Excel
AutoCAD DXF
Mapinfo TAB
MapInfo MIF/MID
While exporting to some formats additional files are created, for example CSVT (field description) and PRJ (projection description) for CSV, CPG (code page) for ESRI Shapefile.
To export data:
Open a Vector or PostGIS layer, the data of which you want to export;
Select the item: menuselection: Features -> Save As on the right pane :ref:` web interface <ngw_admin_interface> `;
Specify the format and encoding of the data and select fields to be exported;
If necessary, you can compress the result into a ZIP archive (for a number of formats this is the default setting);
Save the file to your device.

Pic. 5.30. Selecting “Save as” action to export data

Pic. 5.31. Data export in various formats