topic Spatial analysis services and public users in ArcGIS Online Developers Questions

Spatial analysis services and public users

AnnaWhipple — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 00:52:59 GMT

Sorry if this is a double post. I was having trouble with the forum posting.

I am not a developer, but I'm trying understand a little about the spatial analysis services in ArcGIS Online. According to the documentation, to use spatial analysis (like Summarize Nearby tool) in the ArcGIS.com viewer requires a named user within the Publisher role. If you are using the Spatial Analysis API to consume those AGOL services into a separate, custom website, can non-named (public) users without AGOL accounts use the spatial analysis tools within your site? If so, how does the service authentication to AGOL work? Thanks.

Re: Spatial analysis services and public users

NilsRydh — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 08:08:56 GMT

This is possible using the "App login", as described here:
https://developers.arcgis.com/en/authentication/app-logins.html

It requires some development to create an application that implements this functionality in a web application.

Re: Spatial analysis services and public users

WhereMatters — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 10:18:10 GMT

Hi Nils,

Sorry to wake a three year old thread. I was having the same question and your response prompted me to look further.

It seems you "cannot" use app logins for spatial analysis services.

Please have a look at the capabilities table in this link ArcGIS Security and Authentication | ArcGIS for Developers under app logins. It clearly states app logins cannot be used with spatial analysis services.

Re: Spatial analysis services and public users

PanagiotisPapadopoulos — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 11:22:46 GMT

For Spatial Analysis Services see here

Get started with the Spatial Analysis service—ArcGIS REST API: Spatial Analysis Service | ArcGIS for Developers

Licensing

In order to use the analysis tasks, the administrator of your organization needs to grant you certain privileges. To use any of the analysis tools, you will need the Spatial Analysis privilege. If the output of your task is a hosted feature service, as opposed to a feature collection, you also need the two following privileges:

Create, update, and delete content
Publish hosted features

Certain tasks need additional privileges such as Network Analysis and GeoEnrichment. If the task requires additional privileges, they will be listed in the task documentation.

Also

App login can be used to access any of these services:

Geocoding
Routing and Directions
Demographic Data (GeoEnrichment)
Esri Geotrigger Service
Esri Premium Maps and Layers which require a subscription.
Elevation Analysis

See Here

Implementing App Login | ArcGIS for Developers

Re: Spatial analysis services and public users

BatesRambow1 — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 16:59:15 GMT

Any reason why Spatial Analysis isn't available for App Login?

Re: Spatial analysis services and public users

PanagiotisPapadopoulos — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:02:18 GMT

Sorry I don't have an answer for this.