We are in a weird place right now. We just got access to Portal. Previously we just had an enterprise geodatabase that contained all of our GIS data. If we wanted to have it edited by field workers, we would publish the layer to AGOL, and then when edits were complete, we would overwrite the enterprise geodatabase version with the new version. Now that we have Portal, I'm hoping we can simplify that.
I have published our layers to Portal. But in order to have the users access them in ArcGIS Online field maps, I had to add the portal URL to AGOL as an item and store the required credentials in the item. It works, but it is a bit clunky to set up, especially if we want to add more layers for collection that way.
I've heard a bit a bout AGOL/Portal collaborations, but I'm not sure that is ideal for our case either. I don't fully understand how it works. If I set up a collaboration between AGOL and Portal, does it support editing in both directions? If someone accessing the data in web map creates a feature, and then I create a separate new feature, will both of those changes be reflected instantly for moth me and the other user? Or is it similar to replication in that edits must flow in one direction or another?
I have never utilized Portal before this, so I apologize if the answer is obvious. I really don't have much of an understanding on the intended way of using Portal.
