Application Linking Installer Setup

Unzip the downloaded installation file and double-click the setup.exe file to start the installation.

The Spectrum Spatial Analyst Application Linking Installation wizard appears.

Click Next to see the License Agreement screen. You must accept it in order to continue with installation.

Specify the installation location and click Next.

Specify the location where Applinking.xml file is placed. For example, C:\APP_Linking_Demo.

Note: The Applinking.xml file must be available at the specified location.

Note: You can also create a dummy Applinking.xml file for the next step and update the dummy file later. But a valid, configured and ready Applinking.xml is a prerequisite for the Applinking functionality to work properly. If you modify or update this file, Applinking utility or Node must be restarted.

The following location is provided in the IntallShield wizard.

Click Next and provide a Port number.

After installation of the Application Linking utility, Node or the Application Linking utility will run on this specific port and this information is critical for further functioning of Application Linking functionality (Link- Ins and Link-Outs).

Note: Port specified here should be similar to what has been specified in the controller.properties file of Spectrum Spatial Analyst code.

For Example - If the port has been specified as 9001 in Spectrum Spatial Analyst code as applicationLinkingHostPort=9001, then 9001 should be specified here as well in Application Linking Installer. It is important for communication between Spectrum Spatial Analyst and the Application Linking utility.

Click Install to begin the installation.

The installation process begins and the progress bar appears.

Click Finish to complete the installation and exit install wizard.

Go to your installation folder and edit appLinking.properties ( under NodePackage/) file and update the hostname:port configuration for hostOrigin. For example:

hostOrigin =
						https://analyst-server.exampledomain.com:8010

.

The hostOrigin is the address of the Spectrum Spatial Analyst server. The same as is used to open Spectrum Spatial Analyst web interface in the browser.

There is an option for viewing Windows Installer logs to check and verify more details about the installation.

The following gets installed after the successful installation.

Node.js
All plugins\modules for it to work properly
Applinking Code

Note: - Although Applinking codebase comes with a default Applinking.xml as a part of its setup, you can use a customized Applinking.xml or make sure that the specified Applinking.xml contains the desired configurations. The information specified in Applinking.xml will serve as input to the Application Linking utility and it will behave according to the configuration.