Glossary

Application

Represents the abstraction level that combines the configuration of a project into a single deployable batch.

ArcGIS

ArcGIS is a comprehensive platform developed by Esri (Environmental Systems Research Institute) for creating, managing, analyzing, and sharing geographic information. It encompasses a suite of software products, tools, and services designed to support various aspects of geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analysis.

Custom Actions

Represent special settings that expand the capabilities of the application and implement additional business requirements for a specific project.

Feature Service

Is a type of web service that allows users to access and interact with geographic features and their associated attribute data. Feature services are used to publish and share feature layers, which contain spatial data (such as points, lines, or polygons) along with attribute information describing those features.

Feature Table

A tabular data structure that contains attribute information associated with geographic features. These features can be points, lines, or polygons representing real-world entities such as buildings, roads, or parcels.

Lookup

Is a configured item that represents a field which creates a relationship between two tables by allowing data in one table to point to the records in another table.

Map

Is a representation of geographic data that is created and viewed within a GIS environment. A map in ArcGIS typically consists of layers of spatial data, including points, lines, polygons, raster images, and other geographic features along with associated attribute information.

Portal

Is a component of ArcGIS Enterprise that allows to share m aps, scenes, apps, and other geographic information with other people in organizationю In other words a platform for creating, analyzing, managing, and sharing geographic information.

Project

Represents a set of pages, layouts, widgets and elements which can be configured according to requirements

Workspace

A container where the resources and data for a particular project are stored