Set your application configuration

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By default, ArcGIS Explorer starts up with the default application configuration that includes all the built-in functionality and content from Esri. You can specify a different application configuration by:

• Setting the application configuration in ArcGIS Explorer
• Using a command line argument to set your application configuration
• Setting a registry value to specify your application configuration

Setting your application configuration in ArcGIS Explorer

To set your application configuration, click the Set Application Configuration button on the application menu.

In the Application Configuration dialog:

1. Click the Use the application configuration located at option.
2. Type the URL or path or browse to the application configuration file (.ncfg).
3. Click Update
.

When you change your application configuration you’ll be prompted to restart ArcGIS Explorer. The new application configuration won’t be used until you restart the application.

Using a command line argument to set your application configuration

You can specify the application configuration to use by specifying the /AppConfig command line argument. For example, the following command will start ArcGIS Explorer with the application configuration located at \\myserver\DOTApplication\DOTApplication.ncfg:

You can use the command line argument to create desktop shortcuts that start ArcGIS Explorer using a specific application configuration.

Setting a registry value to specify your application configuration

You can specify the application configuration to use by setting the AppConfig registry value to reference a specific application configuration:

1. Create the following registry key:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ESRI\Explorerversion_number\Settings 

   (for example, 32 bit machine [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ESRI\Explorer1700\Settings]
   or 64 bit machine [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ESRI\Explorer1700\Settings )


2. Create a new string value called AppConfig and set it to a URL which references the application configuration. Note that file system paths (including UNC paths) are not supported.

It is not envisaged that users will commonly perform this setup manually. A more probable scenario is that administrators would create a registry file (.REG) which could be used to specify an application configuration while setting up a users machine.