What is the Community/Channel Editor?

Overview  

The Channel Editor will be soon renamed to the Community Editor, since the name is more descriptive than the term Channel. The Community/Channel Editor is a desktop application that allows you to manage the content of community/channels that are part of the GIS Portal. Communities/Channels provide quick access to authoritative data resources that are stored as metadata in the portal repository or are available from different Internet sites.

The Community/Channel Editor can be used to edit the community/channel content XML file. This tool helps community/channel stewards ensure that the community/channel content XML is valid according to the XML Schema Definition (XSD).

It also helps a steward:
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Intended Audience

The Community Stewards of the NED Portal

Anatomy of a Community/Channel

There are three kinds of community channels: Each channel can have a Unique ID, and can have one or more sub channels.
As part of creating a new community/channel, you will need to provide certain community/channel properties including:
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Creating a NED Portal Community Steward Account

1 On the left side of the NED Portal home page, below the login section, there is a link Create new account!
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 2  Fill out the form with your user name and password.
3 Retype password
4 Click Sign in button.
5 Retype password
6 After logging in, click on  Manage my profile
7 Fill out the contact information form.
8 Submit the form.
After you have created an account on the NED Portal, contact the NED Portal administrator by clicking on the Feedback link in the upper right area of the page.
Fill out the feedback form and let the NED portal administrator know your NED Portal username and the community/channel for which you will be the steward. the NED Portal administrator will notify you when your channel is activated.
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Downloading the ESRI GIS Portal Channel Editor

1 Log into the NED Portal
2 On the left navigation bar, under My Functions My Functions
3 Click on Manage My Channels to open it's submenu Manage my Channels
4 On the sub menu, click on Download Channel Editor    Download Channel Editor
5 Download the channel_editor.zip file to the Temp folder on your computer.
6 Open the channel_editor.zip file on your computer and extract the contents.
7 Double click on the setup.exe file from the extracted the contents.
8 Follow the instructions on the screen.
There is no need to change any default values
The GIS Portal Channel Editor - Install wizard will appear.
9 Click next.
Click the button next to the left of the I accept the terms in the license agreement.
10 Click next.
The Customer Information dialog box will appear.
Enter your customer information in the User Name and Organization text boxes.
11 Under Install this application for, select Anyone who uses this computer (all users)
12 Click next, then Next again.
Click Install.
Click Finish to exit the installation program.
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