topic Re: Edit Default Visibility for Feature/Map Service in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions

Edit Default Visibility for Feature/Map Service

MatthewGeorge — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 02:49:11 GMT

Is it possible to edit a programmatically published Map/Feature Services "Default Visibility" setting? I'm publishing a layer using arcpy and the visibility doesn't seem to honor the layers visibility being used to do the publishing.

Following link shows the approximate python script being used:

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-questions/publish-a-map-image-layer-with-feature-service/td-p/1339929

Re: Edit Default Visibility for Feature/Map Service

DavidSolari — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:30:51 GMT

Officially, there's no way to change a MapService without going through the usual publishing routes. Unofficially, if you can get your script to access your ArcGIS Server's directory folder, you can navigate through the "arcgissystem\arcgisinput" tree to find the definition for your service. Buried somewhere in each service folder is the mapx and/or msd files used to render each service, as well as the service-level metadata files. If you edit every relevant files' minScale and maxScale properties then you should be good! Or you'll corrupt the service. Oh, don't forget mapx and msd files have no public interface so nothing's stopping your process from breaking after an errant update.

Re: Edit Default Visibility for Feature/Map Service

MatthewGeorge — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 01:28:32 GMT

Thanks @DavidSolari that's given me something to work with! I should be able to edit these to get the desired result with any luck. It'd be very nice if Esri made this easier though...