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Creating and Editing Data

Click on Data > Create Layer
Fill the form with some values; first of all insert a name and title and select Polygon as geometry type
Add three attributes and click the Create button
- label: String
- value: Float
- date: Date
GeoNode will create the new empty layer with the selected geometry type and attributes and will redirect you directly to the detail page

Click on Editing Tools > Layer > Edit Data
Go to Boulder area by using the geocoding widget
Click on the pencyl in order to enter the edit mode
Click on the add new geometry button
Click on the Pencyl again
Draw a small polygon over the Boulder Airport and click on the floppy disk button
Double-click on the attributes table columns in order to enable the edit mode on the values
Insert some values as shown below; the date-time attributes must be provided in ISO format
Save and repeat the operation as many times you want
Once finished, go back to the layer detail page; you will notice that GeoNode will show some features but the bounding box is still the whole world; remember to clean the image cache of the browser in order to show the new features

Logout and login again as an admin; from the context menù, click on GeoServer
If you are still logged in as test_user1 on GeoServer, follow the steps below
Go to the GeoServer Data > Layers section
Select and click on the Test Layer you just created
Scroll down to the Bounding Boxes section, update them as shown in the figure, and Save
Go back to GeoNode; from the layer details page click on the Refresh Attributes and Statistics button
The page will be refreshed and now the layer will be zoomed on the right location

Enter the Edit Data mode again
Select (click over) a polygon and click on the Trash Bin icon
Confirm the deletion and verify the polygon disappear from the map
Go back to the layer details page, refresh the browser image cache, and verify the feature is not present anymore