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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3">Publish Layers</a><a class="headerlink" href="#publish-layers" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#publish-layers" id="id3">Publish Layers</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#install-geocat-bridge" id="id4">Install GeoCat Bridge</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#add-server" id="id5">Add Server</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#view-layers" id="id6">View Layers</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#styles" id="id7">Styles</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#publish-styles-only" id="id8">Publish Styles Only</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#summary" id="id9">Summary</a></li>
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<div class="section" id="install-geocat-bridge">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4">Install GeoCat Bridge</a><a class="headerlink" href="#install-geocat-bridge" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>GeoCat Bridge is a free QGIS Plugin produced by GeoCat.</p>
<p>There are also advanced/premium editions as well.</p>
<p>To install the plugin:</p>
<p><strong>1. Go to Plugins on the top menu</strong></p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-plugin-1.png" src="../_images/geocat-plugin-1.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
<p><strong>2. Search for GeoCat</strong></p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-plugin-2.png" src="../_images/geocat-plugin-2.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
<p><strong>3. Select and click the Install Plugin button.</strong></p>
<p>GeoCat Bridgeshould now be available in the Web menu</p>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5">Add Server</a><a class="headerlink" href="#add-server" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p><strong>1. If not already open, open the GeoSuite.qgs project</strong></p>
<img alt="../_images/13-Add-Project.png" src="../_images/13-Add-Project.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
<p><strong>2. In the top menu, go to Web > GeoCat > Publish</strong></p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-1.png" src="../_images/geocat-1.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
<p><strong>3. In the left menu, select Servers</strong></p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-2.png" src="../_images/geocat-2.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
<p><strong>4. Select GeoServer from the New Server dropdown at bottom</strong></p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-3.png" src="../_images/geocat-3.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
<p><strong>5. Enter a name and your GeoServer url. We’ll leave the rest as default for now. Click the + button to add new authentication as shown below</strong>.</p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-4.png" src="../_images/geocat-4.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
<p><strong>6. In the authentication form, enter admin and your GeoServer admin password</strong></p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-5.png" src="../_images/geocat-5.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
<p><strong>7. Click Test Connection</strong></p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-6.png" src="../_images/geocat-6.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
<p><strong>8. Click Test Connection</strong></p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-7.png" src="../_images/geocat-7.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
<p><strong>9. Click the Save button at bottom right</strong></p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-8.png" src="../_images/geocat-8.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
<p><strong>10. Click the Publish tab on the left menu to display your QGIS project layers</strong></p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-9.png" src="../_images/geocat-9.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
<p><a href="#id1"><span class="problematic" id="id2">**</span></a>11. On the Metadata tab at right, enter a name, abstract and any other parameters you wish to. **</p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-10.png" src="../_images/geocat-10.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
<p><strong>12. Repeat above for each layer</strong></p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-10-2.png" src="../_images/geocat-10-2.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
<p><strong>13. Click the Publish button at bottom:</strong></p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-12.png" src="../_images/geocat-12.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
<p><strong>14. The publication process will display as below</strong></p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-13.png" src="../_images/geocat-13.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
<p><strong>15. Upon completetion you should see the status for each layer:</strong></p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-14.png" src="../_images/geocat-14.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6">View Layers</a><a class="headerlink" href="#view-layers" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p><strong>1. Navigate to your GeoServer instance and click on Layers</strong></p>
<p><strong>2. Your layers should now appear as below:</strong></p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-15.png" src="../_images/geocat-15.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">When publishing layers to GeoServer using GeoCat Bridge, a new workspace is created using the name of qgs project file. As you can see above, workspace ‘geosuite’ was created and our layers were published to this workspace.</p>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7">Styles</a><a class="headerlink" href="#styles" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>One of the best features of GeoCat Bridge is that it published Styles along with the layers.</p>
<p>As we can see below, our Parks is using the style we selected in QGIS</p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-styles-2.png" src="../_images/geocat-styles-2.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
<p>The Styles can be viewed and edited in the Style menu:</p>
<img alt="../_images/geocat-styles.png" src="../_images/geocat-styles.png" />
<img alt="../_images/spacer11.png" src="../_images/spacer11.png" />
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id8">Publish Styles Only</a><a class="headerlink" href="#publish-styles-only" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>If we wish to, we can publish only the styles. We’ll cover this in the next section</p>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id9">Summary</a><a class="headerlink" href="#summary" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>We installed GeoCat bridge in QGIS and used it to publish our PostGIS layers to GeoServer.</p>
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