TopBraid Explorer Setup

The Explorer server provides users with read-only access to versions of vocabularies or asset collections that have been published from a separate EDG Editor (source) server.

Note

There is no separate module or war file for the explorer server, you’ll use the same edg.war file for both your editor and explorer servers.

Explorer setup

The Explorer server is installed similarly to any EDG server see EDG Installation, with the following differences.

1. Explorer installation prerequisites (differences)

  • Verify active database type in EDG. Explorer is required to use the same database type.

  • Explorer should have two security groups, Administrators and Explorer groups. Only these two. Please keep Administrator role to very few users as the Explorer license isn’t enabled for daily use by Administrators. Administrators should be logging into Explorer for configuration changes only. All other users should be in the Customer’s directory group for Explorer role and no other roles present on this Explorer instance.

2. Explorer initial administration (differences)

  • In Server Administration - EDG Rights Management: Rights Management Admin Page, assign the ExplorerGroup permission-group to the chosen read only Explorer security role.

  • Configure the Explorer server’s Editor server (URL), user name and password in: Server Administration > System Configuration Parameters > Explorer Configuration.

  • If using OAuth to authenticate to the Editor server, leave the user name and password blank, and add the Editor server URL to the Relying party identifier list in the OAuth Parameters Section.

3. Editor (source) EDG administration

  • For the reverse relationship, configure the Editor-source server’s Explorer server (URL), user name and password in: Server Administration > System Configuration Parameters > Explorer Configuration.

  • If using OAuth to authenticate to the Explorer server, leave the user name and password blank, and add the Explorer server URL to the Relying party identifier list in the OAuth Parameters Section.

4. Publishing to Explorer

After both servers are installed and configured, authorized users can publish edited source asset collections to the Explorer server via the Export tab in EDG collections.