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Working with Feature LayersGary MacDougallRussell Brennan

Working with Feature Layers

• Session will focus on feature access and editing

• Highlight new features added over the last few releases

Agenda

• Introduction• Workflow demos

- Publishing with Pro- Feature services in Portal- Pro as a feature service client- Taking data offline with Collector

• Advanced topics- Admin API- ArcGIS Data Store

• What’s new• Q&A

Feature Service

• Exposed on Portal and Online through Feature Layers• Supports accessing and editing data over the web• Provides online and offline (10.2.1) access• Layers Contain

- Drawing info (renderers, symbols, etc)- Field info (type, nullable, editable)- Feature templates for editing (defaults, domains)- Operations for query and editing

• RESTful

Options

• Export to various formats• Work Attachments and Relationship Classes• Enable time• Set editing capabilities• Enable sync• Enable editor tracking

- Turn on access control

• Work with M and Z data

Data Storage Options

• Feature Services referencing your Enterprise Geodatabase

- ArcGIS for Server

• Hosted Feature Services- ArcGIS Online- Portal for ArcGIS

Pro Web Collector

Portal / Online

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Server

Enterprise Geodatabase



- ArcGIS for Server


Pro Web Collector

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Online



- ArcGIS for Server


Pro Web Collector

Portal

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Server ArcGIS Data Store

Feature Service Clients

• Web- Map viewer (ArcGIS online, Portal for ArcGIS)- Web applications

• Desktop applications- ArcGIS Pro- ArcMap

• Runtime applications- Collector for ArcGIS- Explorer for ArcGIS- Operations dashboard for ArcGIS- Survey 123- Custom apps

ArcMap

Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS

Explorer forArcGIS

10.3: Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS

Collector forArcGIS

ArcGIS Pro

Business Analyst Online

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Pro Web Collector

Server

Portal

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Publish

Pro Web Collector

Portal

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Pro Web Collector

Portal

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Workflow Demo Summary

AuthorMap

PublishService

View, QueryEdit

Synchronize

Download

ArcGISPro

PrepareMaps / Share

Pro Client

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Pro Web Collector

Portal

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• Q&A

Pro Web Collector

Portal

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Feature Services Admin API

• Allows schema edits after publishing- Add/Drop layers, Add/Drop fields, Add/Drop relationship classes / attachments, …

• Supported with hosted feature services- Use Desktop / Pro for Feature Services referencing your Enterprise Geodatabase

• Used by… - Commands in the Portal UI- Can also be called directly using the REST services directory

- E.g. http://abbey.esri.com/gis/rest/admin/services/Hosted/States_rel/FeatureServer/0

Agenda





Pro Web Collector

Portal

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ArcGIS Data Store

• New in 10.3• Designed to store the data from Portal for ArcGIS• Installed separately and configured when setting up Portal for ArcGIS • Provides

- Support 1000’s of hosted feature services- High availability - Back up and restore

ArcGIS Data Store

• Can be configured with a primary and standby for high availability• Manual or automatic failover

Server

ArcGIS Data Store

Primary StandbyPrimaryStandby

ArcGIS Data Store – Spatiotemporal Big Data Store

• Can choose to add a Spatiotemporal store when configuring the data store• Allows better support for observation data with the GeoEvent extension in 10.4• Uses Elasticsearch

- Enables archival of high volume observation data- Very high write throughput and scalability (can run across multiple machines) - Provides high availability

ArcGIS Data Store – Spatiotemporal Big Data Store

• Data can be accessed via Feature Services and Map Services

- map service provides dynamic rendering and aggregated data representation

• Spatiotemporal big data store will support other workflows in upcoming releases

- Analysis in 10.5

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Pro Web Collector

Portal

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What’s new – on the server

• Output format = GeoJSON • Attachment sync direction

- allows you to upload your attachments but not download new attachments when syncing

• An option to get a copy of your data (data extraction)• Calculate and ValidateSQL• Apply edits while preserving your Globalid (REST API)• Admin API - add / modify and drop indexes, relationship classes and domains in

Portal for ArcGIS / ArcGIS Data Store• Spatiotemporal data store based on elastic search

- GeoEvent server- very large volumes of data ingested at a very high rate

What’s new – on the desktop

ArcGIS Pro 1.2- Choose to publish registered data- Add field/Delete field from a feature service

• ArcGIS Pro 1.3- Feature caching > improves performance and scalability- Layers from feature or map services can be added directly to Pro via URL - Map Services are significant as this allows use your map service features locally to do

operations like geoprocessing.

• ArcMap 10.4.1- Pagination is supported

Summary

• Feature Services and Editing• Included feature services and…

- Portal for ArcGIS and ArcGIS Data Store- Pro- Collector

• Advanced topics- Feature Service Admin API- High availability

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• Q&A

Pro Web Collector

Portal

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Server

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