topic How to 'serve' features... in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/how-to-serve-features/m-p/445114#M17189 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm still learning so this might be simple...seems like it should be.&nbsp; I have a SQL Enterprise Geodatabase (sde) that has 2 feature classes that I want to share.&nbsp; I have added those features to a map (mxd) along with several other features.&nbsp; I then "publish" this to a PMF file on the lan.&nbsp; Now, I'd like users to open the PMF file and see all the features but the 2 features from the sde database have red exclamation marks next to them and are grayed out.&nbsp; I assume this means those users don't have 'read' rights to that database.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So, I was thinking I could somehow push the features from the sde database to the server as a service and then add them to an mxd from the service...and then they would be available to the users as they have 'read' rights to that server.&nbsp; Make sense???</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I guess what I'm asking is this:&nbsp; Using ArcGIS for Server and the Publisher extension....how do I create a PMF (published map file) with features from an Enterprise Geodatabase that users who only have read access to the server can see the features?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:16:32 GMT DaveAugspurger 2013-03-14T13:16:32Z How to 'serve' features... https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/how-to-serve-features/m-p/445114#M17189 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm still learning so this might be simple...seems like it should be.&nbsp; I have a SQL Enterprise Geodatabase (sde) that has 2 feature classes that I want to share.&nbsp; I have added those features to a map (mxd) along with several other features.&nbsp; I then "publish" this to a PMF file on the lan.&nbsp; Now, I'd like users to open the PMF file and see all the features but the 2 features from the sde database have red exclamation marks next to them and are grayed out.&nbsp; I assume this means those users don't have 'read' rights to that database.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So, I was thinking I could somehow push the features from the sde database to the server as a service and then add them to an mxd from the service...and then they would be available to the users as they have 'read' rights to that server.&nbsp; Make sense???</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I guess what I'm asking is this:&nbsp; Using ArcGIS for Server and the Publisher extension....how do I create a PMF (published map file) with features from an Enterprise Geodatabase that users who only have read access to the server can see the features?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:16:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/how-to-serve-features/m-p/445114#M17189 DaveAugspurger 2013-03-14T13:16:32Z