Configuring Cesium Maps for Portals

This page outlines the process of integrating a Cesium Map into a Portal document.

For background on Cesium, as well as detailed guidelines on how to customize a Cesium Map model, please refer to our Cesium guide.

How to Configure a Cesium Map Section within a Portal Document

To integrate a Cesium map visualization into a portal XML document, you need to define the map’s appearance and layering structure using JSON. This JSON configuration is then embedded into an <option> element which lies within a <section> element. The <option> element requires two distinct components: an <optionName> set as mapConfig and an <optionValue> that encompasses the aforementioned JSON configuration. Please ensure that the JSON is enclosed within CDATA tags.

Here’s an example:

<section>
  <label>My Cesium Map</label>
  <title>My Cesium Map</title>
  <option>
    <optionName>sectionType</optionName>
    <optionValue>visualization</optionValue>
  </option>
  <option>
    <optionName>visualizationType</optionName>
    <optionValue>cesium</optionValue>
  </option>
  <option>
    <optionName>mapConfig</optionName>
    <optionValue>
<![CDATA[{
  "homePosition": {...},
  ... 
  "showFeatureInfo": false
}]]>
      </optionValue>
    </option>
  </section>