topic Re: Disable Downloads on ArcGIS Hub in ArcGIS Hub Questions

Disable Downloads on ArcGIS Hub

JohnPlunkett — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 01:56:30 GMT

Hello

I have a public ArcGIS Hub

ArcGIS Hub

I have a hosted feature service on ArcGIS Online

http://spt-eaglegis.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=ec7899ee5f5b4c7394753476c08b08d1#overview

And the ability to export is disabled

When I open up in Open Data

ArcGIS Hub

The option to download is present. - is this thie right setting to disable downloads?

I have been testing with other sites and have seen conflicting results

Re: Disable Downloads on ArcGIS Hub

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:54:52 GMT

Is it shared or in a group that is shared with OpenData/HUB? Have you tried unsharing it? This will also make it undiscoverable by OpenData/Hub from what I understand, but still should be available thru AGOL.

(If you still want it to show in OpenData/HUB, then I don't know.)

Re: Disable Downloads on ArcGIS Hub

JohnPlunkett — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 01:39:05 GMT

Hi Rebecca,

Thanks for your response

Yes data is shared to a group with Open Data/Hub

If I unshare it from that group it will disapear from Open Data/Hub.

I want it to remain in Open Data/Hub but I want my users to see it but not export it.

*Edit - added Hub to get the right terminology.

Re: Disable Downloads on ArcGIS Hub

SarahZaleski1 — Tue, 08 May 2018 17:01:33 GMT

I have the same question. Is there anyway to enable the data viewable on the map in HUB, but not downloadable.

Thanks!

Re: Disable Downloads on ArcGIS Hub

DanielFenton1 — Tue, 08 May 2018 17:31:03 GMT

Hi John and Sarah,

There is no way to do this directly and we do not have plans to add such an option at this time. As a workaround you could include the layer in a web map and share the web map on your site. That would allow display but not downloads.

Daniel Fenton

Software Engineer | ArcGIS Hub

Re: Disable Downloads on ArcGIS Hub

JohnPlunkett — Wed, 09 May 2018 21:26:58 GMT

Daniel

Thank you for the response.

Have a good week

John

Re: Disable Downloads on ArcGIS Hub

SarahZaleski1 — Wed, 09 May 2018 21:53:51 GMT

Thanks

Re: Disable Downloads on ArcGIS Hub

JoanBastide — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 08:05:35 GMT

Hi Daniel,

It is a pity that this is not even in the plan. It would be very useful for hub owners to have more flexibility on the sharing options.

Best regards

Joan

Re: Disable Downloads on ArcGIS Hub

Anonymous User — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 14:35:33 GMT

Hi Joan,

Can you say more about your use case? We support private data to limit downloads to authenticated users in your org as well as maps for displaying rather than sharing data. Is there a need we've missed?

Thanks,

Patrick

Re: Disable Downloads on ArcGIS Hub

AmandaJobmann — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 01:04:52 GMT

Yes, I would like some authenticated users to view maps only, not download them. I need the maps locked down.

Re: Disable Downloads on ArcGIS Hub

MariaSwindells — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 17:57:27 GMT

How would you be able to display maps without sharing data (where data can not be downloaded via ArcMap -Desktop)? Is building a WebApp the only option to get this permission configuration?

Like Amanda, I need to make maps visible, but keep the data on lock down within my organization.

Re: Disable Downloads on ArcGIS Hub

Anonymous User — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 18:07:00 GMT

Apologies for the delayed response, but if you want anonymous users to be able to access a map of your data but not download it, then our recommendation (as Daniel noted above) is to add the data to a map and share that map publicly as well as to your open data group. The end result would look something like this: https://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/59313e3bbcd04e26a6a18cb779fea976

Re: Disable Downloads on ArcGIS Hub

Anonymous User — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 18:28:40 GMT

Hi Maria,

Downloads are not available to the end user if you add the data to a map and then share that map to your open data group, as has been done here: https://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/59313e3bbcd04e26a6a18cb779fea976.

To my knowledge there isn't a way to download content from a Hub via ArcMap Desktop, but if you're referring to ArcGIS Online then the typical sharing model applies: data that isn't shared publicly will not be drawn on a public map unless a user is authenticated. That said, unless you enable export on the service (or share the data to the open data group) then anonymous users shouldn't be able to download the data even if it is shared publicly.

As an example, this is the dataset that I added to the map linked above: http://dcdev.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=14b1b24633484e1685fd9ce24d8c2257. Note that downloads are not available even though the item is shared publicly.

Hope that helps.

Patrick

Re: Disable Downloads on ArcGIS Hub

DonMorrison1 — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 04:18:09 GMT

I tried this trick of creating a map from a feature layer and only sharing the map with the Hub group and it appears to work well. One caveat is that initially I had identical names for the feature layer item and the web map item and this resulted in the hub displaying the feature layer (with the download button) which is exactly what I'm trying to prevent. I looked at the network trace and could see the Hub doing some some sort of search by name and getting both the map and feature layer returned. Altering the name of one of the items fixed it in that the search only returned the map item.

This is the search that returned both the map and the feature layer

https://opendata.arcgis.com/api/v3/datasets?fields%5Bdatasets%5D=slug%2Cboundary%2Cextent%2CrecordCount%2CsearchDescription%2Cstatistics&filter%5Bslug%5D=fieldmuseum%3A%3Atest-no-download-1-layer-fm-2022

Re: Disable Downloads on ArcGIS Hub

GiorgioGhezzi — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 14:28:25 GMT

Hi Daniel,
I have the same problem as John, I would like to know if there has been any update or if the only workaround remains to include the layer in a Web Map.

Thanks!

Re: Disable Downloads on ArcGIS Hub

SupriyaK — Tue, 21 May 2024 14:00:30 GMT

I'd also like an update on this. The help documentation states that if Export data is disabled on the service, then it wouldn't allow downloads. For some of our services with that setting this seems to work as expected and the download in Hub gives the message below. But for others it still allows download even though Export data is disabled.