1. Working with Feature Layers
Gary MacDougall
Russell Brennan

2. Working with Feature Layers
Session will focus on feature access and editing
Highlight new features added over the last few releases
Add…
- This is an introductory session
During the session we will show demos involving Portal, Pro and Collector
Each of these areas have a lot more than what we will be showing and you can attend deep dive sessions on each of these areas to learn more

3. Agenda Introduction Workflow demos Advanced topics What’s new Q&A
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

4. 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
- Feature services are RESTful – with REST being the main mode communication between the clients and the server

5. 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
- Here are some of Options you can configure with a feature service

6. Enterprise Geodatabase
Data Storage Options
Pro
Web
Collector
Feature Services referencing your Enterprise Geodatabase
ArcGIS for Server
Hosted Feature Services
ArcGIS Online
Portal for ArcGIS ….
Server
Portal / Online
The feature services gives you options in terms of how you want the data to be stored
Enterprise Geodatabase

7. Data Storage Options Online
Pro
Web
Collector ….
Online
Feature Services referencing your Enterprise Geodatabase
ArcGIS for Server
Hosted Feature Services
ArcGIS Online
Portal for ArcGIS
Another way to go is hosted feature services
Hosted means that the data is copied during feature service publishing and managed for you
For example, you can publish hosted feature services in ArcGIS online – which will copy and maintain the data
Good for viral maps where you don’t have to do the scaling part

8. Data Storage Options Portal
Pro
Web
Collector
Portal ….
Server
ArcGIS Data Store
Feature Services referencing your Enterprise Geodatabase
ArcGIS for Server
Hosted Feature Services
ArcGIS Online
Portal for ArcGIS
Portal also supports hosted feature services
Here you install Portal for ArcGIS, Server and the ArcGIS data store and then configure them such that when services are published to Portal, the service runs in the back end server and then data is copied to the arcgis data store
All your interactions with the data is through the portal
This is the set up that we will be using for the demos in this session
Although all most all of these workflows are supported for any of the storage options set ups the we’ve just described

9. Feature Service Clients
Collector for ArcGIS
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
ArcGIS Pro
Business Analyst Online
ArcMap
Explorer for ArcGIS
10.3: Web App Builder for ArcGIS
The feature service is supported by a wide array of clients across the platform
Such as…
In this session we are going to focus on some of the newer clients – namely Pro, Collector and Map Viewer
Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS

10. Agenda Portal Introduction Workflow demos Advanced topics What’s new
Pro
Web
Collector
Server
Portal ….
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

11. Agenda Portal Introduction Workflow demos Advanced topics What’s new
Pro
Web
Collector
Portal ….
Server
ArcGIS Data Store
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
Publish

12. Agenda Portal Introduction Workflow demos Advanced topics What’s new
Pro
Web
Collector
Portal ….
Server
ArcGIS Data Store
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

13. Agenda Portal Introduction Workflow demos Advanced topics What’s new
Pro
Web
Collector
Portal ….
Server
ArcGIS Data Store
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

14. Agenda Portal Introduction Workflow demos Advanced topics What’s new
Pro
Web
Collector
Portal ….
Server
ArcGIS Data Store
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

15. Workflow Demo Summary Synchronize Publish Pro Client Service Download
Create Replica
ArcGIS
Pro
Author
Map
Prepare Maps / Share
View, Query
Edit

16. Agenda Portal Introduction Workflow demos Advanced topics What’s new
Pro
Web
Collector
Portal ….
Server
ArcGIS Data Store
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

17. Agenda Portal Introduction Workflow demos Advanced topics Q&A
Pro
Web
Collector
Portal ….
Server
ArcGIS Data Store
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
Q&A

18. 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.

19. Agenda Portal Introduction Workflow demos Advanced topics What’s new
Pro
Web
Collector
Portal ….
Server
ArcGIS Data Store
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

20. 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

21. Server ArcGIS Data Store Primary Standby Primary Standby
Can be configured with a primary and standby for high availability
Manual or automatic failover
Server
ArcGIS Data Store
Primary
Standby
Primary
Standby

22. 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

23. 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

24. Agenda Portal Introduction Workflow demos Advanced topics What’s new
Pro
Web
Collector
Portal ….
Server
ArcGIS Data Store
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

25. 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

26. 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
Pagination is supported

27. 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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29. Agenda Portal Introduction Workflow demos Advanced topics Q&A
Pro
Web
Collector
Portal ….
Server
ArcGIS Data Store
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
Q&A

31. Pro
Web
Collector
Server
Portal ….

32. Pro
Web
Collector
Portal ….
Server
ArcGIS Data Store