https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-notebooks-questions/feature-layer-overwrite-not-updating-item/m-p/1631196#M933 <P>I am using a notebook in ArcGIS Online to overwrite a feature layer (with code excerpt below) and a couple things are not happening as expected:</P><P>1. <STRONG>None of the item properties are updating through the overwrite - is this expected?</STRONG>&nbsp;It did work the&nbsp;first time when initially creating the feature layer via the same to_featurelayer method (and overwrite=False).</P><LI-CODE lang="python">#define feature layer properties item_properties = {"service_name" : "Sample Stations test", #this only gets added the first time service is published. Needs to be unique. "title" : "Sample Title", "tags": "tagone, tagtwo", "folder" : 'Script Outputs', } #none of these are updating in overwrite #publish sdf to feature layer lyr = sdf.spatial.to_featurelayer( title=item_properties["title"], gis=gis, tags=item_properties["tags"], folder=item_properties["folder"], #only when creating feature layer: #service_name=item_properties["service_name"], #only for overwrite: overwrite=True, service={"featureServiceId" : "ITEMID", "layer": 0}) item_id = lyr.id url = lyr.url print(f"Feature layer item {item_id} updated: ", url)</LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>2. The overwrite itself is working although I do get the following warning message. <STRONG>How can I avoid this warning? </STRONG>And is it related to the item properties not updating?</P><PRE>Warning 6: dataset /tmp/tmp6a5ebhyr/ae9b78.gdb does not support layer creation option TARGET_ARCGIS_VERSION"</PRE><P>Would appreciate any suggestions! Thanks.&nbsp;</P> Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:10:54 GMT rwrenner_abtglobal 2025-07-08T17:10:54Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-notebooks-questions/feature-layer-overwrite-not-updating-item/m-p/1631196#M933 <P>I am using a notebook in ArcGIS Online to overwrite a feature layer (with code excerpt below) and a couple things are not happening as expected:</P><P>1. <STRONG>None of the item properties are updating through the overwrite - is this expected?</STRONG>&nbsp;It did work the&nbsp;first time when initially creating the feature layer via the same to_featurelayer method (and overwrite=False).</P><LI-CODE lang="python">#define feature layer properties item_properties = {"service_name" : "Sample Stations test", #this only gets added the first time service is published. Needs to be unique. "title" : "Sample Title", "tags": "tagone, tagtwo", "folder" : 'Script Outputs', } #none of these are updating in overwrite #publish sdf to feature layer lyr = sdf.spatial.to_featurelayer( title=item_properties["title"], gis=gis, tags=item_properties["tags"], folder=item_properties["folder"], #only when creating feature layer: #service_name=item_properties["service_name"], #only for overwrite: overwrite=True, service={"featureServiceId" : "ITEMID", "layer": 0}) item_id = lyr.id url = lyr.url print(f"Feature layer item {item_id} updated: ", url)</LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>2. The overwrite itself is working although I do get the following warning message. <STRONG>How can I avoid this warning? </STRONG>And is it related to the item properties not updating?</P><PRE>Warning 6: dataset /tmp/tmp6a5ebhyr/ae9b78.gdb does not support layer creation option TARGET_ARCGIS_VERSION"</PRE><P>Would appreciate any suggestions! Thanks.&nbsp;</P> Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:10:54 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-notebooks-questions/feature-layer-overwrite-not-updating-item/m-p/1631196#M933 rwrenner_abtglobal 2025-07-08T17:10:54Z