Updating a published feature collection via arcgis online notebook

Question

Hi,

I am trying to convert an rss feed (with lat/long) to a layer on our portal.  I can create the layer via:

rss feed -> spatial data frame -> feature collection -> published feature collection

Currently I can't find any documentation around how to overwrite a feature collection

I have found this tutorial about how to update a feature layer which doesn't work:
https://developers.arcgis.com/python/sample-notebooks/overwriting-feature-layers/

How can I either overwrite the feature collection or publish my feature collection as a feature layer?

jcarlson · Answer

If that's not working, try tables instead, in case the layer in question is non-spatial.

When you say it's displaying successfully, what does it look like? You should be able to access individual layers and tables, and their respective manager functions, from an Item, not just a FeatureLayerCollection.

Anonymous User · Answer

Hi, thanks for the pointers. Unfortunately my layers object is a nonetype object so I have no layers to refer to.

I created the feature collection as per the instructions/tutorial here:

https://developers.arcgis.com/python/guide/accessing-and-creating-content/#Importing-data-from-a-pandas-data-frame

and it displays successfully in the portal, but I cannot find out a way to either update the feature collection or publish this instead as a feature layer collection which I assume then gives me to the layer.manager functions to use for updating.

jcarlson · Answer

I would use layer.manager.truncate(), then layer.edit_features(adds=spatialdataframe.spatial.to_featureset())