Editing a Layer Style/ the drawingInfo in ArcGIS does not save to the layer

Question

Hi All,

I had a question regarding how Layer Styles are saved/applied on AGOL. In short, it looks like you can no longer update a Feature Layers style and have it save to drawingInfo via AGOL. Once the Feature Layer is published, the drawingInfo cannot be updated through the Visualization options and must be exported into ArcGIS Pro and republished with updated symbology.

Example:

* User navigates to source data available UAS Restrictions Downloads 
* My User opted to download as a shapefile, but one could just create and save a layer via URL source; no effect on the end outcome.
* User creates a featurelayer in AGOL via the "New Item" button and drags zip file in, following the prompts
* User opts to create a hosted feature layer from the shapefile

This layers styling is Blue transparent solid fill. We want a Red (ff0000) fill at 25% transparency with a dotted outline.

* Through the Viz tool, update the fill and outline of the hosted feature layer from blue to red

* Under Properties -> Information, save the changes. On exploration, there are only options to "use styling as it was published" or "Use map properties". Either option will not change the drawingInfo.

Now in ArcGIS Pro, sign into your portal and load this map through the Catalog -> Portal. The style does load into Pro this way.

Now load it through Add Data -> Data from Path. Load the yourendpoint/FeatureServer/0/ URL. The styling is the base styling and not the styling applied/saved to the layer via the viz tool. If you go to the drawingInfo, the info remains as it was published.

Is there a way to update a Layers styling in AGOL at the FeatureLayer level and not the Map Level (or however it seems to be working now?)

Thanks!

ChrisManciero · Answer

Following for answer, have the same problem. In ArcGIS loos correct, using JS SDK feature layer is blue.

AlejandroGarza · Answer

Hello

We are having the same problem with AGOL

We do not have access to ArgGIS Pro right now

Any suggetions has to how to update the drawingInfo or how to republish the featureLayer with the visual modifications done from the Visualization tab?

Best

JohnEvans6 · Answer

Thanks, I did try updating the visualization through adding the layer to a map via endpoint, but there is no option to "save" once updated. I tried save as, but the layers drawingInfo remains blue.

The challenge here is we're not loading this layer back into an AGOL map; the visualization changes used to save to the HFS. We have a custom-code web application that uses ArcGIS Server, Oracle, and the JS Developer SDK that allows the ingestion of Feature Service Endpoints. I have users that develop HFS's via AGOL. These HFS's are then ingested into our product for building work products and conducting analysis.

Our users used to be able to load shapefiles or information from other sources, change the style, then save the layer. That same workflow now will change the style in AGOL and if that layer is used in an AGOL map, the style displays correctly. However, when our application wants to ingest that layer through the FS/0 endpoint, whatever style it was originally uploaded as is displayed, since AGOL never updates the features drawingInfo.

Below is our application loading the endpoint as blue. In AGOL this layer has been visually updated and saved to be Red. It will display Red in an AGOL map and in ArcGIS Pro if loaded from the content pane. If i load this layer via URL, it is blue.

It seems like once an HFS is published, there is no way to update a layers drawingInfo in AGOL; the layer has to be pulled into ArcGIS Pro, extracted/copied, restyled, and completely republished.