Replicating Feature Class from EGDB on ArcGIS Online

Question

I would like to sync a Feature Class stored on an EGDB to a Feature Service on AGOL. The feature class is edited on a daily basis and it would be nice if the feature service is automatically synced with the changed made to the database (instead of having to overwrite the service daily). Ideally, I would like to preserve the feature services offline sync capabilities as well.

Is this possible?

Juan_ManuelAngel · Answer

Try to insert this code to preserve the Global Id's

import arcpy

arcpy.env.preserveGlobalIds = True

PatrickFilyer · Answer

Haha no you aren't crazy. It makes sense. I am going to test this eventually and I will let you know what happens.

Thanks again !

Anonymous User · Answer

Hmpf. I'm not sure honestly. I suppose it will depend on if AGOL honors the globalIDs. In other words, if when you overwrite the features the GlobalIDs are preserved by AGOL consistently I'd expect the syncing from offline devices to work just fine. If, however, they get jacked up by AGOL, then I'd expect issues.

I'm also not sure how the hosted data is actually handled by the EC2 instances behind AGOL. When you sync an offline replica, I'd imagine that the syn only shoots over items from the A & D tables and doesn't mess with the other data. But, if the sync process detects an unexpected conflict (i.e. more things exist in the AGOL feature layer than expected), I'm not sure how the system responds.

In short, this would have to be tested. Was that useful or am I crazy guy rambling again?