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Timo, The only other thing I will add regarding this is that we do not currently have "replica tracking" enabled on the feature datasets/feature classes we are trying to share into the workspace. While I'm not entirely sure that this is the reason for the issue, it is another configuration option I need to look into. Upon initial testing, it didn't appear that not having "replica tracking" enabled mattered, but reading into the ESRI documentation a bit further makes it sound like it may be necessary. I also found a different ESRI Community post discussing what happens behind the scenes when "replica tracking" is enabled. Replica Tracking GP tool: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/3.4/tool-reference/data-management/enable-replica-tracking.htm Replica Tracking behind the scenes info: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/enable-replica-tracking/td-p/1382804

Timo, A couple answers to your questions and comments: I believe your Version Creation setting should be set to “Create a version for each downloaded map.” I have tested this and I do not believe the configuration is necessary even for a branch versioned database. I was able to successfully publish, share to the collaboration (with AGOL creating the hosted "copy" layer), make an edit in the Portal layer, and sync the workspace successfully. With your initial successful syncs, are they only for newly published feature services that haven’t been shared to the collaboration workspace? Yes, I did not test this workflow using another already published feature service. I did not want to use the production Parcel Fabric feature service to test this against and we do not have any other feature services in our publication side to test against. What happens if you sync the feature layer twice on the same day, before the nightly replicate/copy process runs? If your theory is correct, the sync should work both times since the replica would still be in place. Ensure there is a change in the feature layer before doing the re-sync test. If I sync the feature service twice on the same day, it works fine and is able to successfully sync. Even when performing an edit on the Portal side, the edit does come through on the AGOL side (as long as its within the same day). What error messages appear in the sync status collaboration logs? You can find these at /portal/sharing/rest endpoint > Home > Portals > Self > Collaborations > [COLLABORATION-ID] > Workspaces > [WORKSPACE-ID] > Sync Status The message from the "Sync Status" page: Unable to sync item '46bb45cb5a0f4086b40bf2e0e4de77e9'. Error retrieving Sync info or replicas for peer 'neJvtQ4PXvnQ86MJ'. Cross checking your sync status logs, are your initial successful syncs real-time or scheduled syncs? The interesting thing about the real-time vs. scheduled sync, is that even on an initial sync, the workspace tries to perform both the real-time and scheduled sync. I'm not sure if that's intended or if I just set up the workspace incorrectly, but on the initial sync it will attempt both and one will inevitably fail (because its trying to create two AGOL layers with the same ID). After the initial sync though, its fine and the scheduled sync that is performed on the same day succeeds, but any subsequent syncs on following days fails.

I am looking for some guidance or confirmation on an error I have been encountering when attempting to sync a workspace that participates in a distributed collaboration between our Orgs. Portal and AGOL sites. Basically, we are attempting to share Portal feature services (where the data is hosted in our MSSQL Server) to AGOL as hosted feature services; the AGOL hosted feature service would be a "copy" of the Portal feature service. Some additional background: The feature service / data we are attempting to share is originates from a Parcel Fabric enabled database. Our MSSQL server has two instance, a production (editing) and publication instance. Every night our production instance is replicated/copied and overwrites our publication instance. The feature services I am trying to share to the collaboration are built using data from the publication instance. When we try to sync the workspace immediately after the feature service is published and shared (same day), the sync completes successfully. When we try to sync the workspace the next day, the sync fails. I am wondering if the nightly replicate / copy routine, where the production instance of the database is replicated / copied and overwrites the publication instance of the database, is breaking/blowing away the "replica" that is created by the collaboration/sync process. Thus when the workspace sync is executed the same day the feature service is published/added to the workspace, the workspace has no issue syncing the content, but when the sync is executed the following day (or any day after) the sync fails due to no reference of the "replica" in the database. The specific error I am receiving from the Portal Admin logs is: "Failed to obtain sync/replica info for Feature Service item 'ITEMID', URL 'PORTALURL/arcgis/rest/services/FeatureServiceName/FeatureServer' while collecting item list for collaboration workspace id 'WORKSPACEID'. Item exists but will not be synchronized." Is there a way to confirm that a replica has been created at the database level (in SQL Server)? Is there a way to confirm my theory about the replica being broken/blown away by our nightly SQL replicate/copy routine? Infrastructure Configuration: Using ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3 Enterprise Geodatabase version 11.3.0.52636 SQL Server version 2022 Collaboration & Workspace Configuration: Distributed Collaboration with AGOL site as HOST and Portal site as GUEST. Workspace set as SEND ONLY (from Portal to AGOL). Workspace set with "Feature layers and views in my portal are sent as 'COPIES'". "If unable to share as copies share as references" is UNCHECKED. Portal Feature Service Configuration: Geodatabase workspace set to "Branch Version". Version Management UNCHECKED. Editing "Enabled" (Add, Delete, Update). Enabled Sync CHECKED. Sync - Version Creation --> NONE.

‎08-13-2025

Denis, was ESRI technical support ever able to give you an answer about why restarting the DynamicMappingHost service resolved the issue or did they provide you a long term solution if this continues to occur?

‎08-07-2025

Looking for some in sight. We have a number of Quickcapture projects deployed and a number of staff using them on a daily basis. Was looking to see if it is possible to change the default font size of the question text when collecting data. Basically, the font size of the questions (after a capture event has been initiated) is too small for a handful of our staff. It seems that it is possible to alter the group heading and button text font sizes, but not the question text font size (after a capture event has been initiated). Am I missing something from the Quickcapture project designer or is this a current limitation?

‎06-06-2025

I am looking to generate a variety of drive time polygons using ESRI's road network data for a project, but want to verify if a subset of roads in my project area will be considered in the analytics. Is there a list/map/dataset that will inform me about what roads/segments are contained within ESRI's road network dataset and are used in a drive time analysis using ESRI's data? The only information regarding "coverage" I could find was here: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/routing/network-coverage/

‎02-10-2025

@GlenterpriseUK I have not seen this article before. Looking into the details of the article and comparing other cached tile services we have published (that are not experiencing this issue), this "Dynamic Layers" setting is enabled for these other services. Not sure if it matters, but the other services were originally published with ArcMap (and upgrade to the ArcGIS Pro runtime through AGS manager), while the service with the issue was originally published from ArcGIS Pro. One thing I have noticed when comparing the service with the issue vs. other similar cached tile services, the service with the issue does not have a fully populated "caching" page. I believe this information is populated from one of the "config" files (conf.xml, conf.cdi, conf.properties), but its unclear if these are the issue or not. Does the error message log in the log file provide any information? The "Missing parameter: MapName" is throwing me for a loop.

‎02-10-2025

@GlenterpriseUK The service uses Dedicated instances and caching is from a tile cache stored on a file server. This service was also published using ArcGIS Pro.

‎02-10-2025

The service as it stands does not allow the end user to visualize the data at all scales. We do not have multiple sets of contours, just the 1ft contours. This could potentially be a solution to use the standard service, but I am still looking for any insight regarding the error messaging / log file from ArcGIS Server. The error code/text is fairly generic and any googling I have done has not been very helpful.

‎02-10-2025

Yes, I have tried using the service as a standard service, but unfortunately since the data being visualized is 1ft contours for a whole county, this solution doesn't work very well; the performance of the standard service version is VERY poor (almost unusable). The cached tile service is the only reliable way to provide this information quickly for any map extent.

‎02-10-2025

I have a cached tiled map service hosted in our standalone ArcGIS Server 10.9.1 environment being displayed in a web application for public use. This web application contains the print widget which uses a "custom" print service also hosted in our standalone ArcGIS Server 10.9.1 environment. As of recently, a few users have been mentioned that when attempting to print a PDF containing this cached tiled map service (with the service visible), the returned PDF from the print service does not show the appropriate layer (the layer is not visible in the PDF, but visible in the web application). Attempting to replicate the issue, I found that the issue is VERY intermittent and not specific to any web browser (replicated on Edge, Firefox, and Chrome). Looking at the server logs, I found the following errors for this specific cached tiled map service. - Method failed.HRESULT = 0x80004005 : Unspecified error . - Missing parameter: MapName I am unfamiliar with this issue and error log. Has anyone else experienced this issue before?

‎01-23-2025

Looking to see if anyone else has ever come across a scenario where you want to create an ArcGIS Online Join View Layer where one of the participating layers is another view layer. Basically, I have polygon layer (with an ID field) and a S123 table with a number of different "cost" attributes, total cost attribute, vendor name, work order ID, etc. (one attribute being the polygon ID field). As it stands, I have successfully been able to create a Join View layer between the polygon and S123 table to generate "total costs per polygon" values, but I would like to include additional resolution to this data by separating the "total costs per polygon" by additional attributes (vendor, work order ID, etc.). As far as I can tell, in order to facilitate that within ArcGIS Online I would need to create a view of the S123 table to filter for those specific attributes and then join the view to the polygon layer, but unfortunately at this time ArcGIS Online does not allow a view to be used in a join view layer operation. I want to keep the operation within the ArcGIS Online environment (without creating a separate hosted feature layer) so that when new S123 submission are added, the Join View polygon layer will also update. Am I missing something in ArcGIS Online or within ArcGIS Pro? Are there other solutions for what I am trying to accomplish?

‎01-17-2025

@Jande_Wit @JandeWit Are you able to confirm that the only way to view/edit non-hosted feature layers in ArcGIS Online is by hosting/serving them via ArcGIS Server 11.2 or higher? I don't have access to an ArcGIS Server environment of that version to verify on my end. Does the existing AGOL framework support the use of non-hosted feature layers with related tables in the new map viewer or any other newer apps (Experience Builder, Instant Apps, etc.)? As of 1/17/25, I am still unable to edit/view any related records/tables of a non-hosted feature layer in AGOL unless it's using the "Classic" map viewer or Web App Builder.

‎12-16-2024

Doug, Thanks for confirming this behavior.

‎12-16-2024

I would like to know if the following behavior is expected or unexpected when trying to calculate a value using a Pulldata return and a user input integer/number value. In short, I have a S123 Connect published form where I am trying to calculate a "total cost" value based on a user input of "hours" and a constant "per hour cost" value that is derived from an ArcGIS Online feature layer table and queried using the Pulldata function. My initial attempt at performing this calculation was to multiply the Pulldata value ("per hour cost") and the user input value ("hours") in the same row/record/function. While this seemed to validate as intended in the S123 Connect preview, when published to ArcGIS Online the calculation wouldn't operate correctly and instead just returned the "per hour cost" value. In my second attempt I created a "null"/temporary field to store the "per hour cost" from the Pulldata function and then used this "null"/temporary field in a second calculation of the "hours" X "per hour cost" to achieve the "total cost" I was looking for. This seemed to work as I intended and the values were calculating correctly. Is it not possible to use the Pulldata function as a part of a larger calculation? EX: Pulldata(a,b,c) * ${fieldName} Attempt 1 - Calculate "Total Cost" in one row (pulldata("@layer", "getValue","attributes.PerHourCost","https://services5.arcgis.com/.../LineItemPrices_tbl/FeatureServer/0", "TypeOfCost = 'Work' and Name = 'UTV_With_Pumper_Sprayer'")) * ${Equip_UTV_Hours} Attempt 2 - Calculate "Total Cost" in two rows: Row 1 "Rate" - field is "fieldType" null: pulldata("@layer", "getValue","attributes.PerHourCost","https://services5.arcgis.com/.../LineItemPrices_tbl/FeatureServer/0", "TypeOfCost = 'Work' and Name = 'UTV_With_Pumper_Sprayer'") Row 2 "Total Cost": ${Rate} * ${Equip_UTV_Hours}

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