topic Re: Linking to an FTP site in ArcGIS Online Questions

Linking to an FTP site

SueCarroll — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:09:48 GMT

Is it possible to link a note to an FTP:// site instead of an http:// page? The software seems to be forcing "http://" in front of the ftp:// path I enter. The documents I need to access are PDF's on our ftp site. Any ideas from anyone?

Re: Linking to an FTP site

MikeMinami — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:13:41 GMT

Yes, I can see what you mean. In Explorer Online, http:// is automatically added as a prefix to the URL. Unfortunately, that's the way it works. Perhaps you can copy your pdfs to your HTTP site instead?

Thanks,

Mike

Re: Linking to an FTP site

NathanEnge — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:46:14 GMT

I've added this functionality request to ideas...
FTP repository is often the defacto spot for up-to-date documentation... instead of uploading to AGOL and consuming credits, I'd rather have the possibility to link web documents.

Re: Linking to an FTP site

MikeMinami — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:10:08 GMT

This may work for you.

From My Content, choose Add Item. Item is on the web. Choose Document Link as the type and enter the URL.

Thanks,

Mike

Re: Linking to an FTP site

NathanEnge — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:25:39 GMT

This may work for you.

From My Content, choose Add Item. Item is on the web. Choose Document Link as the type and enter the URL.

Thanks,

Mike

No Joy bro...

ArcGIS Web API REST Connection
http://ftp://www.bcogc.ca/outgoing/OGC_Data/ePASS_Documents/ePASS_Standards_Requirements.pdf

It forces the http in front of the FTP no matter what I do.

Re: Linking to an FTP site

MikeMinami — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:40:16 GMT

We should allow FTP URLs. We'll get this fixed for our next update.

Thanks,

Mike

Re: Linking to an FTP site

AhmedAmin2 — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 06:07:25 GMT

Hi!
This issue still seems not to be resolved?

Is there anyone that have a solution?

Re: Linking to an FTP site

MikeMinami — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:56:50 GMT

I am able to add an item to My Content that reflects an FTP url. Perhaps you are experiencing a different issue.

Mike

Re: Linking to an FTP site

AhmedAmin2 — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 09:27:16 GMT

I may have misunderstood the question. When I use pop up solution in ArcGis Portal to create a map and want to write my own text in the popup the problem appears. I highlight a text and choose hyperlink tool(the chain) and if the link starts with ftp:// it works in the session but if i logout it changes it to http:// by itself. See my before and after pictures.

before

after

Re: Linking to an FTP site

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:09:52 GMT

angelusamin9 Since this is an older thread, and your question is about Portal, I would "branch" your question and put it in‌ the @ Portal for ArcGIS group

You can branch using the option in the "Actions" menu in the lower left corner of your reply above. This should give you you more exposure and better chance to get a specific response. (my apologies if you have already done this. It takes me a while to get thru my email in the morning.)

Re: Linking to an FTP site

MikeMinami — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 16:41:09 GMT

For security reasons, "ftp://" gets removed when it gets stored on the server. It remains working in your current session because the string is cached on the client exactly as you've typed it in. It's not until you reload the map, and the map requests the popup from the server does the server return the URL without the ftp part.

The database storage is a little more lenient when it comes to storing HTML and will allow ftp. So if you add a new field, and store the full ftp URL in the field, I was able to make it work. Like this:

Where in my case, the ftpfield value is

ftp://speedtest.tele2.net/2MB.zip

If you, for example, want a unique ftp document per record, you could split the URL into 2 fields, like this

My data looks like this, where the base URL is in ftp field and the specific file is in its own field. The two fields are then concatenated in the URL.

Note: when you calculate a string field from the table in the map viewer, you need to single quote it.

Hope this helps.

Mike