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Portal for ArcGIS, managing feature layers

FlorentBigirimana

Hi,

Our organisation has recently migrated to ArcGIS Enterprise form ArcGIS Online. I have publisher some layers to be used with collector app, from a registered database (SQL Enterprise geodatabse). The layers ends on the portal (federated with the server) as feature layers (not hosted). As the owner of the features I would like to add some control like keeping the track of who created and last updated features, setting the kind of editing allowed and restrict the view of features to the user who has created them. From some research I have found that some of the settings need to be done on the database side but I wonder how. Any one has any Idea about this ?

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DerekLaw

Hi Florent,

> As the owner of the features I would like to add some control like keeping the track of who created and last updated features, setting the kind of editing allowed and restrict the view of features to the user who has created them.

Controlling editing access and enabling editor tracking is set at the feature layer level. For your registered feature services with Portal, you can set these properties for each feature layer

Manage hosted feature layers—Portal for ArcGIS | ArcGIS Enterprise

Hope this helps,

FlorentBigirimana

Hi Derek,

Tank you for you reply. Unfortunately I used to do so with hosted feature layer with ArcGIS online. This time with the portal, the feature is not hosted but registered with my database. Just a little background , I have published the feature with ArcMap (10.7) with a connection to ArcGIS server. Some screenshot are attached here and hope that they make my situation a little bit clear

JoeCatanzarita1

Hi Florent Bigirimana,

Based off of the information you've provided above, I understand that you're not working with Hosted Feature Services, rather Feature Services that come from your enterprise geodatabase.

You can enable editor tracking on a feature class level within the Catalog Pane in ArcMap. Here is a quick workflow:

Launch ArcMap/ArcCatalog
Expand your Catalog Pane and expand your Database Connection
Find the Feature Class that your Feature Service references and right click > Manage > Enable Editor Tracking.

One thing that I'm not sure of, however, is if you'll have to republish the Feature Class after you've made this change. As a test, I'd recommend enabling Editor Tracking then create a point in Portal for ArcGIS using that Feature Service. Do you notice an entry for the user that made the change? If not, I'd say you should either republish this service or overwrite your existing service after the change has been made.

Cheers,

Joe

FlorentBigirimana

Hi Joe,

Thanks a lot for your feedback. This solves the issue about editor/creator tracking.

However the problem about the right of viewing user own features is still an issue. Lets assume we do have many fieldworkers creating and editing features and I want to avoid a situation where one creates a features an another one delete it.

Thank

DerekLaw

Hi Florent,

Sorry for the late reply, I was out of the office on vacation.

> Lets assume we do have many fieldworkers creating and editing features and I want to avoid a situation where one creates a features an another one delete it.

At the feature layer level, you can set permissions so users will only see the features they've created; you could also set it so users can only edit the features they've created. Please review the link I referenced previously.

Another approach: you could leverage feature layer views,

Create hosted feature layer views—Portal for ArcGIS | ArcGIS Enterprise

Hope this helps,

Marc_Graham

Hi Derek,

Do hosted feature layer views work with feature services published from an enterprise geodatabase?

Thanks.

FlorentBigirimana

Dear Derek,

This is very clear. However, once I publish a layer on the side of the portal form a registered geodatabase it comes as feature layer but does not show the option of the settings I am talking about (Just as it should be when it a hosted layer). Do you mean that the hosted feature layer and a non hosted feature layer should behave the same way on a Portal ?

FlorentBigirimana

I managed to resolve this issue by enbaliing Ownership based access control as described here

Ownership-based access control for feature services—Documentation | ArcGIS Enterprise

and

Enable ownership-based access control on a feature layer—Portal for ArcGIS | ArcGIS Enterprise

FredMitchell

@DerekLaw this is a bit of an old thread but somewhat relevant to what I'm trying to figure out. I'm curious if you have any info on how to trace back from portal to where in the enterprise geodatabase registered data is living. I just started at a new org and there has been some turnover. We have a bunch of items in portal that are not hosted but rather reference data in an enterprise geodatabase. Is there a way to reverse engineer or see what layers in the EGDB these items in portal are referencing and on what servers? Any help or support documentation you can provide would be so appreciated! Thanks!

DerekLaw

Hi @FredMitchell,

> Is there a way to reverse engineer or see what layers in the EGDB these items in portal are referencing and on what servers?

Which portal items do you mean, when you say "items in portal"? Do you mean web maps? These dev samples might meet your needs,

Hope this helps.

FredMitchell

Thanks @DerekLaw both of these tips are helpful! I'll experiment with them but hopefully this gets us started. As far as items go I'd like to be able to trace back from the feature layer or web map to the map service to the registered data in the sde. Right now I go into server manager and I can see where the service was published from but if that aprx or mxd is no longer accessible is there another way to find where the registered data that it's referencing is located? Ultimately, I'd like to have a spreadsheet that lists all the sde's and their feature layers or datasets, the map service REST URL, and the associated items in Portal and their service IDs. I may not be describing this perfectly but basically having some way to track where everything is and how it's dependent on each other. Hope that makes sense!

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