You enter your data into an Excel workbook. This will contain several worksheets and these must be populated according to a few basic rules. The sections below describe the role of each worksheet and how it should be populated.

As you read these sections, you should refer to the main example Excel workbook supplied with your InstantAtlas software. This is a file called ‘IAworkbook.xls’ located in the ‘workbooks’ folder created during the installation of your InstantAtlas software. By default the path to this file is C:\Program Files\EsriUK\InstantAtlas\workbooks. Alternatively it can be found from your Start Menu by browsing to ‘InstantAtlas Desktop Edition’, ‘InstantAtlas Excel Data Manager’.

Once you have understood the rules for entering data, you can replace the example data with your own and use the workbook to generate JSON data files for your own InstantAtlas report(s). You can make multiple copies of this workbook simply by copying and pasting it or by opening it and saving with a different name.