The intent of this page is to provide a practical guide on using and managing AGOL. Additionally, tips, best practices, or hacks should be documented and shared here. This page is a work-in-progress.
Features Vs. Feature Services in ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS Pro provides numerous options for sharing your work with others. Using ArcGIS Pro, you can:
- Share web layers
- Share web maps
- Share web scenes
- Share packages
- Share web tools
- Share locators
- Create new item files
Publishing Web Layers to AGOL with ArcGIS Pro
Overwrite Existing AGOL Web Layer with ArcGIS Pro
- Save a copy of existing metadata before overwriting an existing AGOL web layer as AGOL deletes some information. Once existing web layer has been overwritten; open web layer Overview, click Metadata button, click Overwrite link (next to Save button), check 'Populate metadata with item details,' browse to saved copy of web layer metadata, and then make edits relevent to updated web layer.
Share Content through AGOL Portal
Publish Web Maps to AGOL with ArcGIS Pro
The following link provides an introduction to sharing packages, which is a general information resource for sharing packages through email, FTP, the cloud, thumb drives, etc. To publish a package to ArcGIS Online, follow the steps outlined below.
Publish Packages to AGOL with ArcGIS Pro
A feature class has a spatial extent that is based upon all the coordinates within the feature class. This spatial extent is used when adding a feature class to a map in order to recenter and display all the features within. Rather than examining every feature in the feature class each time the feature class is added to a map (a potentially long process), a feature class has an extent property containing the last known spatial extent. However, this extent property is not always updated when features within the feature class are edited. This means that the values in the extent property might not contain the actual spatial extent of the features. Executing this tool reads all the features and updates the extent property.