Publish layer as feature service on ArcServer using model builder?

MichaelTorbett1

Is it possible to just use Model Builder to publish a feature service to an ArcServer? I have a geodatabase feature class that is linked to an sql table using model builder. This layer will auto update every time  the model runs on my machine. However, I want to have the model publish the layer as a feature service on my agency's Arcserver so that it can be added to a web map on ArcGIS Online. That way the web map will update as well.  I cannot figure out the best way to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am using ArcGIS  10.4 with a 10.2.2 Server. Also, ArcGIS is not installed on the server, just my computer.

Thanks,

Michael

JakeSkinner

I would recommend doing a manual export of the XY Event layer to your enterprise geodatabase.  This will only need to happen once.  Then, you can set up a model that performs a truncate table and append from the event layer to the feature class.  After the table updates, you can execute the model that will update the enterprise geodatabase feature class. 

One thing to note is that the feature class does not have to be registered as versioned in order to do online edits.  If you do register the feature class as versioned, you want to make sure that you perform a geodatabase compress frequently as the A & D tables will grow quite large due to the truncate and append operation.