topic Re: Concatinating fields on the fly into a virtual field for feature services in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions

Concatinating fields on the fly into a virtual field for feature services

LyonMNGIS — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:11:43 GMT

Hello,

I have a 3rd party that would like me to add an attribute to a feature service layer. This field can be calculated from other fields. I don't want to add a field on the main dataset as this will only be used for a specific application. Is there a way to add a virtual field within a hosted layer view?

Thanks!

Re: Concatinating fields on the fly into a virtual field for feature services

Scott_Tansley — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 04:53:48 GMT

Hi,

Assuming your software versions support it, then take a look at Arcade and the text functions there:

https://developers.arcgis.com/arcade/function-reference/text_functions/

Regards,

Scott

Re: Concatinating fields on the fly into a virtual field for feature services

JohannesLindner — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 06:57:58 GMT

AFAIK, not directly.

You have a few options:

use Arcade to show the virtual value in the popup
create the field, but calculate it automatically using an attribute rule
instead of publishing a feature class, publish a database view that contains the virtual field, calculated with SQL