topic Re: Public Viewing, Organization editing? in ArcGIS Online Questions

Public Viewing, Organization editing?

AnthonyFarndon — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 19:10:18 GMT

Hi

I have a scenario that I am trying with our AGOL Org account, but I appear to be either missing something obvious, or it is not possible.

The scenario is that I want to have a hosted feature service (lets call it 'Highway Closures') publicly viewable but only editable by people within the organisation. So the public can see if there are highway closures, but only people in the 'Roads Department' group can edit.

I set up the feature service, add it to a web map and set this up in the group who have edit rights. All good so far. I now setup another web map for public consumption, make it available to Everyone (public), and here is where the issue comes in. By doing this, I have now made the feature service publicly editable, because it needs to be public to be viewable, meaning the edit web map and group can be circumvented.

I understand there is a new browser type role upcoming for AGOL, but this will not help us here I don't think.

So am I missing something obvious, or is it as appears, that if you want to share data with the public, and also be able to update that data, you also have to allow the public to edit it as well?

Re: Public Viewing, Organization editing?

AnthonyGiles — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 19:32:09 GMT

Anthony,

The help states this:

'Features from ArcGIS Server feature service layer or hosted feature service layer are editable by anybody viewing the map'

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgisonline/index.html#/Editing_feature_service_layers/010q0000004r000000/

So I guess you are not missing anything.

In your public map can you not add the layer in as a map service instead of a feature layer, this will then not allow edits:

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgis-rest-api/index.html#//02r3000000w2000000

Regards

Anthony

Re: Public Viewing, Organization editing?

AnthonyFarndon — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 19:47:48 GMT

Hi Anthony

Unfortunately this is using AGOL hosted services, and there is an as yet unconfirmed timescale when we might see hosted map services for the equivalent feature service 😞

Re: Public Viewing, Organization editing?

AnthonyFarndon — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 20:13:59 GMT

Sorry, I see this question was asked previously (but because of the differing way people phrase things, didn't find it when I searched before posting)

http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/97300-Restrict-editing-to-authorized-users-while-leaving-the-map-viewable-to-the-public

Seems a fairly common use case that is not catered for, or is AGOL really only a platform to be used within organisations now?