Portal collaboration with ArcGIS Online group from other organizations

[Coles_Brendan]

Please enable the ability for leveraging groups hosted in another organization's ArcGIS Online for collaboration between AGO and Enterprise Portal.

We are trying to collaborate with our municipal partners. We are hosting a group in our ArcGIS Online and invited users from our partners AGO accounts to access the group. A couple of partners also leverage ArcGIS Enterprise and have setup a collaboration between their Enterprise and AGO. Unfortunately even through they have been invited into the group that we are hosting in our organization, they cannot use that group as part of their collaboration.

Because Portal can only collaborate with 1 AGO organization, we cannot invite their portal to directly collaborate with our AGO organization since they still need to collaborate with their own AGO organization. Instead we need them to be able to select the group we are hosting when they create a workspace in their own AGO for collaboration.

[Anonymous User]

Brendan, I think if they implement this idea, it would help you on this. You can see it and vote here https://community.esri.com/ideas/16330-allow-users-from-two-or-more-orgs-to-edit-a-webmap

[JimSomerville1]

Being able to add a Collaboration from more than one ArcGIS Online Organization is needed. We manage a regional data exchange composed of multiple jurisdictions. The jurisdictions need to be able to set up a Collaboration with their AGOL Org and with the regional exchange's AGOL Org.

[DavidTreering1]

From the FAQ:

Can ArcGIS Enterprise collaborate with more than one ArcGIS Online organization?

No. Currently, ArcGIS Enterprise supports the ability to collaborate with only one ArcGIS Online organization.

This is an extremely important feature that is required for true collaboration outside a single Enterprise.

[ThomasEdghill]

ArcGIS Online has recently announced partnered collaboration which allows collaboration between two or more ArcGIS Online organizations. It's also now possible to share content from ArcGIS Enterprise to multiple Online organizations by pairing distributed and partnered collaboration.

You would establish a distributed collaboration between Enterprise and Online and then a partnered collaboration between that Online organization and other Online organizations. You can use the same group in both the distributed and partnered collaboration so that content is shared seamlessly between all organizations. I believe that this idea can be considered implemented now!

[Coles_Brendan]

@ThomasEdghill This shouldn't be marked as implemented

This was not what was meant by this idea. Currently a portal can only collaborate with 1 AGOL organization. Lets say Organization1 sets up a distributed collaboration between their own AGOL and their portal for the purposes of syncing content, such as items for their open data. Meanwhile Organization2 creates a group in their own AGOL organization and invite users from Organization1's AGOL to the group to access that content. Organization1 would then like to pull the content from the group hosted by Organization2 down to their portal. Currently Organization2 cannot add the group they've been invited to by organization1 into a workspace that's participating in their distributed collaboration.

[ThomasEdghill]

@Coles_Brendan thanks for your response and your use case. I think I've got a firmer grasp on the request here, and will be happy to shift the status accordingly. It seems like a missing component is the ability to copy content across multiple Online organizations, thereby allowing content from multiple Online organizations to sync back to Enterprise?

[Sarah_Hanson]

This request will not be addressed, as it is intentional that an organization administrator only sees group from within their org when selecting a group to be tied to a collaboration workspace.