topic Re: Publish an Editable Web Feature Class in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions

Publish an Editable Web Feature Class

Abdullah_AlFazari — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 11:56:28 GMT

Hi Team,

I'm trying to publish an editable Web Feature Layer where the users should be able to edit and update some fields. I have this feature class in a FGDB, and whenever I tried to publish the layer to the portal, I got the below error:

and there is no option to correct this error. Any thoughts?

Re: Publish an Editable Web Feature Class

berniejconnors — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:05:02 GMT

FGDB does not support editing on a featrue service. You need to use an Enterprise geodatabase. Here is a similar question - https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/layer-s-data-source-not-supported-feature-service/td-p/132584

Re: Publish an Editable Web Feature Class

DerekLaw — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:54:11 GMT

Hi @Abdullah_AlFazari,

As @berniejconnors said, your data source needs to be stored in an enterprise geodatabase to publish a feature service. File geodatabase data are not supported. Learn more in the help topic,

Prepare data to publish a feature service

Hope this helps,

Re: Publish an Editable Web Feature Class

Abdullah_AlFazari — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 05:49:47 GMT

Hi @berniejconnors

Thank you very much for your response. Much appreciated.

I will try to connect using an Enterprise geodatabase but this will allow users to edit directly before we make our QAQC of the data. That's why I was hoping to use FGDB.

Re: Publish an Editable Web Feature Class

Abdullah_AlFazari — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 05:51:04 GMT

Hi @DerekLaw

Thank you very much for your response and being here. Much appreciated. will try it now.

Re: Publish an Editable Web Feature Class

Scott_Tansley — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 10:29:32 GMT

Use a copy of the feature class as a staging table or consider using a hosting feature service for staging? You don’t have to edit the authoritative feature class directly.

with regards to the fgdb approach. A ms word document on a windows file share will only allow one person to edit it because of windows applying locks to the file. The same is true of a fgdb. One instance of a map/feature service is the equivalent of a user in this contact. Multiple instances of a service are like multiple users. Windows is the limiting factor and so you need a multi-user (enterprise) geodatabase.

Re: Publish an Editable Web Feature Class

Blevins_Mark — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:16:30 GMT

@DerekLaw i understand you cant publish a feature service from an fgdb...but you can go into the server manager and enable feature service access on the map image layer service to then spin up a feature layer...are there any gotchas or potential pitfalls to going this route? thanks.

Re: Publish an Editable Web Feature Class

berniejconnors — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:47:06 GMT

I have created an "idea" related to this topic - "Read-only feature service from FGDB".

Bernie.