Manage app settings—ArcGIS Business Analyst help | Documentation

Use the app settings to save your work, choose a country or region, set application preferences, view account information, and take guided tours.

Turn on autosave

Use the Autosave toggle button to save the state of the map across sessions. When the toggle button is turned on, sites and layers on the map are saved when you sign out. The next time you sign in, the sites, layers, and map extent from the previous session are loaded on the map.

• Content from the current project is saved, including boundaries, labels, and layers containing business search results.
• Historical traffic layers are saved only if the

  Historical Traffic Data

  window is open.

• Annotations and measurements are not saved.

Set the country or region

Business Analyst provides data in 177 countries and regions. You can browse and search for countries or regions in the Country/Region drop-down menu. To change the default country, select a country in Preferences. Some countries include multiple data sources that offer different variables and geography levels.

To select a country or region, do the following:

1. Country/Region

   drop-down menu .

   Click thedrop-down menu

2. In the drop-down menu, find a country or region in the following ways:

   • Browse the full country and region list.
   • Click a continent.
   • Click a letter of the alphabet to view countries and regions that begin with that letter.
   • Provide the country or region name in the

     Enter country or region

     search field.

3. Click a country or region.

4. Click for data source selections

   button . To view more information about the data sources, click

   Show details

   . To select a data source, click

   Apply

   .

   For countries that include multiple data sources, choose a source by clicking thebutton. To view more information about the data sources, click. To select a data source, click

   Once you select a data source, the map automatically pans to the country or region you selected.

Set preferences

You can customize Business Analyst Web App by setting preferences for the app, workflows, and reports and infographics.

• Set preferences for the app
• Set preferences for your organization (Administrator role required)

View account information

The Account details drop-down menu allows you to open your ArcGIS organizational profile, view your license type, and sign out of the application.

1. On the top ribbon, click

   Account details

   .

2. To open your

   ArcGIS Online

   profile in a new browser tab, click

   My profile

   .

3. View your organization username, profile image, and license type (Standard or Advanced).

4. To sign out of the app, click

   Log out

   .

Take guided tours of the app

Guided tours allow you to familiarize yourself with Business Analyst functionalities and workflows. Tours are organized in five levels, from introductory to advanced. You earn points when you complete a tour or review related material. When you complete all tours in a level, you earn additional points and a badge and proceed to the next level.

You can set preferences for guided tours in the application preferences. You can turn expanded tips on or off and reset all tours. Administrators can set preferences for the entire organization.

To take a guided tour, do the following:

1. In the

   Maps

   tab, expand the

   Account details

   drop-down menu and click

   Guided tours

   .

   The Guided Tours window opens.

2. Hover over a tour to view a ToolTip with a brief description. To open a tour, click

   GO

   . To start a tour in a locked level, click

   Unlock

   .

   The tour opens, displaying the first step. The status bar at the top of the screen shows the name of the tour and your progress.

3. Follow the tour instructions. For steps that include additional information, click

   Tip

   to view the information. If you don’t want to complete the tour, click

   Stop tour

   to exit.

   Actions that are required to complete steps may vary, including the following:

   • In some steps, you can return to the previous step by clicking

     Back

     .

   • Some steps require that you click a specific place.
   • Some steps only provide more information about the workflow. When you finish reading, click

     Next

     to proceed to the next step.

   When you complete a tour, your updated progress in the current level is displayed, along with other material related to the completed tour.

Some tours may not be available in certain situations. The following limitations apply:

• If an administrator in your organization has disabled a workflow for your role, any guided tours associated with it are not available to you. For example, if the

  Color-Coded Maps

  workflow is disabled, the

  Create a color-coded map from data

  tour is not available.

• Not every tour is available in every country.