Maintain Service Draft file after running "Stage Service" tool.

Question

Hi guys,

In my model I have a "Stage Service" tool. The propose of the model is to push data into ArcGIS Online every week. This model will run automatically.
As it says in documentation, the draft file is deleted after the tool runs, but I wanted to preserve this file so that it can be used again. It's the only step missing on this model.
I can get around it by creating a python tool that verifies if the file exists, and if doesn't, copy it from another directory, but I was wondering if there's an "out-of-the-box" way to do it.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

TiagoRibeiro · Accepted Answer

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http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/80680-How-to-publish-a-feature-service-to-ArcGIS-Online-from-an-mxd-USING-PYTHON