idea Remove limit of 512 groups per user in ArcGIS Enterprise Ideas

Remove limit of 512 groups per user

GEOadmin — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 07:17:49 GMT

I want to create 1000+ dashboards, customized with a specific view from the same feature service. The making of the views is not the problem .

The dashboard, including the webmap and layer view, should be shared in a group (so I need 1000+ groups).

All views of the same feature service should have the same owner, which makes it impossible to share all dashboards in their correct group, because a user can be in max 512 groups.

My idea would be: remove the limit of groups a user can be in, or at least make it changeable. Would be awesome!

Re: Remove limit of 512 groups per user

AlexanderSchiestl — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 12:40:28 GMT

Removing these limits would be very helpful for our very large hosting farm.

Re: Remove limit of 512 groups per user

ChristophK — Wed, 14 May 2025 07:39:36 GMT

We manage user permissions in a Portal-connected app with groups that represent a matrix of affiliation and user level, i.e.

Group 1 "Organization A user"
Group 2 "Organization B user"
Group 3 "Organization A admin"
Group 4 "Organization B admin"

This quickly hits the 512 group limit and we have to start using multiple admin users to create groups, and "waste" a valuable Portal members in the process for just this.

Custom user roles and types cannot achieve this granularity currently.

Re: Remove limit of 512 groups per user

MarcelBeckmann — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:51:59 GMT

I am really wondering who is inserting these limitations and above all why?!

Re: Remove limit of 512 groups per user

KlausFussenegger — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:40:14 GMT

We agree that removing the limit would be useful.

Re: Remove limit of 512 groups per user

SimonSchütte_ct — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:55:04 GMT

When external IdP are used: BUG-000123928 for Portal for ArcGIS -> Will Not Be Addressed
Workaround: idp/Documentation/SAML/Configure Azure Entra ID.md at main · Esri/idp · GitHub

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