How to share Web Feature Layers to an Enterprise Geodatabase

prmhara

Hi all,

I am looking for guidance or documentation on a specific publishing workflow to share web feature layers to an Enterprise GDB in ArcGIS Enterprise system.

Current setup:
- ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 (Server and Portal are federated)
- Enterprise Geodatabase running on PostgreSQL
- Note: We do not have an ArcGIS Data Store installed in this environment.

Our users want to share data from ArcGIS Pro as a Web Feature Layer.
Usually, when using "Reference Registered Data," the data stays in place.
However, in this scenario the source data is local (or not yet in the GDB),
and we want the publishing process to automatically copy/upload the data into
our PostgreSQL Enterprise GDB so it becomes the backend storage for the service.

Normally, "Copy All Data" defaults to the ArcGIS Data Store.
Since we don't have the Data Store installed, we want to know if there is a way
to designate the Enterprise Geodatabase as the "Managed Database" for the hosting server
so that it acts as the destination for these layers.

Questions:
1) Is it possible to use an Enterprise Geodatabase (PostgreSQL) as the default destination
for hosted-style publishing in Enterprise 11.5?

2) If not, what is the recommended "best practice" for users to move local data from ArcGIS Pro
into the GDB (via the Server) during the sharing process?

Any links to documentation or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you and best regards.

 

CodyPatterson

Hey @prmhara 

Take this with a grain of salt since I'm unable to access Pro as I've moved out of my GIS position, but in my mind, I believe that you can create a custom toolbox for this, and then hand it out to your publishers.

In this, you would basically be creating a toolbox in Pro that either creates a custom dataset with an identifier and uploads the users web map to that dataset, or you have a certain strict list of datasets that the user would use, and then the script would append to that dataset. After this appending, you can use the CreateSharingDraft function to start the process of loading it into the map, I apologize I'm not super sure what to do further than this since I'm not able to test, but here's some documentation that may help: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/arcpy/sharing/createsharingdraft.htm

Hope this at least points you in the right direction!

Cody