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DRAFT: Create an ArcGIS Online Web Connection for ArcGIS Data Interoperability
Spoiler Spoiler Warning ▲▼ Under Review. This workflow is under review, please do not implement it until this spoiler is removed. We apologize for the inconvenience. Web Connections authorize ArcGIS Data Interoperability to work against ArcGIS Online services using the Esri ArcGIS Connector package, the Geocoder…
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Scheduling Parquet File Maintenance For Transactional Data - The Insert-Only Data Model Edition
At writing it's the week after the 2026 Esri User Conference where I worked in the Esri Showcase and gave a few demo theatre presentations. It's also time to help with things I heard customers struggling with, and my blog topic combines two that are a good match: * Scheduling ETL tools * Sharing continuously changing…
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Introducing ArcGIS for ServiceNow: Connect ServiceNow business data with ArcGIS location intelligence
Esri is excited to introduce ArcGIS for ServiceNow, a new integration that connects the ArcGIS and ServiceNow platforms to bring location intelligence directly into business workflows. It includes two components: 1. The Connector for ServiceNow is built for ArcGIS users who want to bring ServiceNow business data into their…
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What's New in ArcGIS Data Interoperability for Pro 3.7 (and Enterprise 12.1)
It's that time of year again, another release! At writing we're in sync with the FME product in FME engine terms - 2026.1. The post attachment contains details on notable features, new formats and transformers, plus productivity enhancements in the Workbench application. What keeps us motivated is learning what you need in…
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Read Feature Services Faster
A recent (at writing) release of the Esri ArcGIS Connector package quietly delivered a significant benefit for people working with ArcGIS Online or Enterprise feature services - namely concurrent read requests. This matters for people doing things like change data capture (aka change detection) for current and revised…
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Data Sync between Cityworks, GDB, and Internal App
I am looking for assistance with migrating data that is/was in Cityworks with a Geodatabse. This data is needed in a GDB for use in Field Maps. Additionally, once certain components are updated/edited in Field Maps, I need this data synchronized with a separate internal application and oracle database. If possible, I would…
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Data Interoperability Extension 2026.1
I am wondering when the Data Interoperability Extension might be updated to include new features and functionality of FME Form version 2026.1
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Drive Your ETL With Map Interaction And Web Tools
There are many ETL jobs you might want to trigger from your map and the patten we'll explore in this blog will help you get there. Here is one use case, running an ETL web tool that accepts area features from a map as an input. The web tool happens to build a mobile geodatabase which is returned to my Pro session or…
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New Data Interoperability Training Courses (APIs & Generative AI)
Hi everyone, Please accept my apologies, I know it isn't good practice to post these things through this forum (I wont make a habit of it) but I wanted to get the word out. Following the success of our free technical session (link here with a recording) we have launched a couple of new Esri Data Interoperability training…
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Access MDB > Extracted data to GDB > Geodatabase table to feature class?
So this is my first time extracting data from MS Access MDB database to an ArcGIS Pro 3.6 geodatabase. I used the Quick Import tool for this purposes. The conversion worked as in the data was extracted as geodatabase tables. However some of these geodatabase tables are actually vector data but Pro does not recognize them…
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FME Licensing Error After ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 Upgrade — Advanced ArcObjects Not Found
Has anyone run into licensing issues with FME after upgrading to ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5? My FME Workbench (2025.1.1.0) workspace was working as of Friday. After our Enterprise upgrade over the weekend, I can no longer read a feature class from our enterprise geodatabase due to a licensing error. FME reports that an…
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Share and maintain Big Data hosted feature layers in ArcGIS Online
Here is my subject matter data, the State of New Jersey's parcel data (~3.5 million features, 4.4 GB with 45 fields), with thanks to the NJ tech team for their assistance putting this sample together. I'll get to why one parcel is highlighted shortly... First, with reference to the post's title, this discussion isn't tied…
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How to use 'Truncate Existing' using the Esri ArcGIS Feature Service in v3.16.0
I have been using the prior version of ArcGIS Connector v3.16.0 to write and update my data on an Enterprise portal, and after the upgrade to v3.16.0 the Esri ArcGIS Feature Service writers still work. However, all new Esri ArcGIS Feature Service writers with the same parameter settings do not work when trying to truncate…
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SchemaMapper column name issue
Good morning, In the Excel document SchemaMapper.xlsx the name of this column is "_UNFeatureClass", but when I run the FME workbench it returns this warning. It looks like it does not refresh the column name. Is there a way to force FME to refresh the SchemaMapper Transformer (SchemaMapper_18)? Log file Message:…
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FME and Schema Mapper Excel file
Good morning, After creating a new Excel file by copying the existing Schema Mapper Excel file and updating it, I modified the corresponding parameter in FME under Edit User Parameter → SchemaMapper_Master to point to the new file. However, when I run the FME workspace, the log file shows that several SchemaMapper_NN…
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Free Technical Session: Integrating AI & LLMs with Data Interop (5 Practical Examples)
Hi everyone, I wanted to share that we are running a free Data Interoperability technical session on the 18th of December on integrating AI & LLMs with Data Interop showcasing 5 practical examples. Some more background - it’s a technical talk showcasing 5 Workspaces, using 5 transformers, explained in 5 minutes. The…
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Embed connection parameters of an enterprise geodatabase writer bug in DI FME 2025.
We recently upgraded to Pro 3.5.2 and with it, the upgrade of DI. When trying to embed connection parameters for an SDE writer, there seems to be a bug with the version params. Normally if you choose transactional version, the historical marker and date and time boxes are deactivated. In 2025, even when selecting it after…
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Add the FME Form AI assistant to DIE Desktop
The FME Form AI Assistant helps to implement flows more quickly and effectively. It would be beneficial to incorporate it into Data Interoperability, as it would help both beginners and experienced users.
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ArcGISFeatureService writer creates service but no features written
I’m using the Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE) reader and the safe.esri-AGOL.ArcGISFEATURESERVICE writer to publish to our ArcGIS Portal (Portal [11.3], ArcGIS Pro [3.5.1]). The feature service gets created, but it’s always empty. The source feature class has about 56,764 records, but the writer log shows this error:…
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Change Detect or View Source Swap? The Winner Is....
The answer is both for me, but you be the judge for your situation! Read on for the decision criteria... If you want to maintain a large hosted feature service from external data it is best practice to avoid complete overwrites at each refresh, for two reasons: * Large write transactions can be fragile * Large write…
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Get Ready For OneDrive Integration
If you track the ArcGIS Pro Roadmap you'll see that OneDrive integration is coming. What's planned includes (but is not limited to) support for sharing file geodatabases. If you surf the ArcGIS Pro Ideas space for OneDrive you'll see a bunch more requests for OneDrive support. One simple workflow - read-only data sharing…
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ArcGIS Online Is A Web Filesystem For ETL Tools
There are many ways to read data with the ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension. Convenience matters, and users also appreciate not having to make copies of data to get their work done. On a recent webinar we showcased the Esri ArcGIS Connector package and mentioned using ArcGIS Online as a web filesystem, but there was…
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The Esri ArcGIS Connector Package - The Movie
Data integrations of external data sources and ArcGIS Online and Enterprise portals are comprehensively supported by ArcGIS Data Interoperability, both natively with the software and on a continuous release basis via FME Hub packages. Esri and Safe Software collaborated in this webinar to spread the word about new and…
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Geocode Smarter Not Harder
Business, facility or event addresses are coordinates that want to be found, but sometimes data with both geometry and well formed address attributes has not had the benefit of the high quality geocoding available in ArcGIS Online being applied to records where the geometry could do with some uplift. This blog shows how to…
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Cached features not being written to ArcGIS Online
Hello, I’m a novice user of the data interoperability extension in ArcPro. I created a script over a year ago and its been working great. I have a transformer filtering 2 case types: 35, 64 writing to a hosted service in ArcGIS Online (AGOL). Recently, we added more case types to the filter: 11, 12, 21. The issue is when…
