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ArcGIS Api for Python - set content status on Item

DavidColey — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 18:48:41 GMT

Hello - does anyone know how to set the content status on an item? Currently, the api will allow you to read the content status property, but there seems to be no way to set the content status. Something like:

portItem.update(item_properties={'content_status' : 'org_authoritative'})‍‍

would be ideal but 'content_status is not a property that can be set as part of item_properties, even as the json return does show content_status as contentStatus.

Re: ArcGIS Api for Python - set content status on Item

LorneDmitruk2 — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 21:07:57 GMT

Hi,

All you have to do is the following:

portItem.content_status = 'authoritative'‍

Re: ArcGIS Api for Python - set content status on Item

DavidColey — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:26:39 GMT

Thanks Lorne, yes that did it. 'org_authoritative' for portal. I thought I tried that first thing, but sadly the api documentation isn't as intuitive as maybe it should be. If interested, you can follow the content_status property setting with an Item.protect(enable=False) to remove delete protection, as I've been tripped up many times by having a layer set with delete protection . . .

Re: ArcGIS Api for Python - set content status on Item

ToddW_stl — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:28:03 GMT

found this super helpful article today by one of our Esri Community's newest MVPs, @Clubdebambos !

from the Esri docs:

Re: ArcGIS Api for Python - set content status on Item

DavidColey — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:36:15 GMT

Yes, I've been doing this for about 5 years now:

gis = GIS("https://yourorg.maps.arcgis.com/", "username", "pw") try: pubGroups = gis.groups.search(query='title:Some Group Title', max_groups=1000) for pubGroup in pubGroups: #print (pubGroup.title) if (pubGroup.title == 'Some Group Title Layers Group'): print (pubGroup.title) items = pubGroup.content() #print (items) for item in items: #print(item.name) item.content_status = 'authoritative' item.protect(enable=False) #print(item.content_status) message = message + "\n" + (pubGroup.title) + " Itens Sucessfully Reauthorized" except Exception: # If an error occurred, print line number and error message import traceback, sys tb = sys.exc_info()[2] e = sys.exc_info()[1] print(e.args[0]) print ("Line %i" % tb.tb_lineno) message = message + "\n" + "Line %i" % tb.tb_lineno message = message + "\n" + str(e

In this way, you can just loop through your groups and the items in each group and set its content status and its protect status. I do this because each week as my collaborated layers sync by reference from portal to arcgis online, I need to re-authorize the layers.

More importantly though, for the layers in the workspace collaborations to sync without fail I need to remove the delete protect status....

Re: ArcGIS Api for Python - set content status on Item

ToddW_stl — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:42:58 GMT

awesome, nice work. thanks for marking a solution!