topic Re: Map Service MXD in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions

Map Service MXD

MaryM — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:03:07 GMT

Can the MXD the map service was created be deleted and still have the map service work?

Re: Map Service MXD

TimWitt2 — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:03:52 GMT

Mary,

is there a reason why you would want to delete it?

Tim

Re: Map Service MXD

StanMcShinsky — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:25:48 GMT

Mary M,

If you are talking about deleting a MXD (on your local computer) that you used to create a map service on ArcGIS Server then yes you can delete it if you want. In 10.x when you create a map service it creates a copy of the mxd and puts it into the map service definition on the server. That will stay there until you delete the map service.

One thing that I like to do is keep a folder of all the MXDs that I used to make my map services so in case I need to fix something in the map service I can easily fix the MXD and republish the service.

-Stan

Re: Map Service MXD

MaryM — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:07:46 GMT

I don't want to delete it. It is just I had a map service fail and the MXD had been saved to a 10.2 document, when the server is 10.0. I was not sure if the failure was due to the MXD changing. Nothing had been published as 10.2.

Re: Map Service MXD

StanMcShinsky — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 13:40:07 GMT

Mary,

When a map service suddenly fails it is not typically a failure of the MXD. If the data changed and the MXD has for example a definition query or symbology that no longer matches the data then you do need to go back to the MXD and fix it and republish it.

-Stan

Re: Map Service MXD

MaryM — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:54:16 GMT

Thanks, I can rule out the MXD being the cause of failure.