Seperate layers from web feauture service into portal items

DavidMcDermott1

Hello,

Currently I publish web feature service which contain all the related layers. This creates an single item in portal which lists all the layers and their service URL. I would now like to seperate these layers out into their own items in portal. Is there a way to do with automatically or does it have to be done manually? The reason I am asking is this method simplifies publishing, looks neater in the legend (Until group layers are available) and enables these to documented and searchable. 

Thank you,

David 

AndrewWhitman1

Greetings David, 

As far as I can tell based on the documentation, there is no way to separate layers once published up to Portal for ArcGIS. This is a decision that needs to be made before publishing. 

If you feel like this is a gap in functionality that could benefit a wide swath of users, I would encourage you to create an idea within ArcGIS Ideas. 

I did find some best practice recommendations on managing layers within Portal for ArcGIS. 

https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/use/best-practices-layers.htm

I get the sense that if we are given the option to group layers together, then we would also be given the option to "ungroup" those same layers. So perhaps the request for group layers is actually what you are asking for here? If so, it has been listed as "In Product Plan" for now. 

Hope this helps, 

Andrew W.