topic Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments in ArcGIS Online Questions

Export Feature Service with Attachments

ODAMapping2012 — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:40:56 GMT

Hi,

I've got a feature service with attachments enabled (it's a point layer with photos on that can be edited in the field and photos recorded using an ipad) that I'm trying to export out of arcgis online.
Every way that I try to export it doesn't include the attachments, is it possible?

Many thanks,

Andy

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

MikeMinami — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:21:11 GMT

Unfortunately, we don't currently export attachments. We hope to support this in a future update.

Thanks,

Mike

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

JasonHarshman — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:39:46 GMT

Seems crazy that this isn't already possible given that ArcGIS Online seems to be all about sharing data. Hopefully this will happen soon since it's already possible with ArcGIS Server.

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

MichaelOlkin — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 02:13:37 GMT

How soon can we expect export of attachments from a hosted feature service to be an available option? It's currently the primary deterrent against my organization making better use of hosted feature services.

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

MichaelOlkin — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:58:24 GMT

We hope to support this in a future update.

Any word on how soon this future update might be coming?

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

MikeMinami — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:23:51 GMT

No release of this coming in the near term. Our efforts are currently focused on database synchronization, rather than export and manual synchronization.

Thanks,

Mike

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

MikeBell — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:08:35 GMT

It's our reason for considering abandonment of arcgis online.....no support for many simple commons things like this.....

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

AdamAull — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:48:38 GMT

The ability to export feature classes and attachments from ArcGIS Online to my enterprise geodatabase is extremely important to my organization. This definitely needs to be focus of ESRI since all other ESRI products are integrating with each other and able to share data bi-directionally.

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

MikeMinami — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 20:39:21 GMT

ArcGIS for Desktop 10.2 will support "Creating a local copy" of the service that will also contain the attachments.

Thanks,

Mike

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

senemfidan — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 06:09:32 GMT

Hi,
Is it possible that, with ArcGIS Desktop 10.2 edition , can be save all attachments(photos) from ArcGIS online feature service?

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

LeonScott — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:06:10 GMT

ArcGIS for Desktop 10.2 will support "Creating a local copy" of the service that will also contain the attachments.

Thanks,

Mike

I have 10.2 Desktop running, when I run "Edit Features"->"Create Local Copy for Editing" from the context menu of the service it is not bringing over the attachments. Is there another tool that I am missing?

Leon

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

MikeMinami — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 22:52:08 GMT

You are accessing a hosted feature service right? Did you enable the Sync option?

As I understand it, there may be a bug in Desktop here. The desktop team is investigating it and would make any fix available in a service pack release. Is it possible for you to share your service so we can reproduce the problem? Maybe giving us the steps you used to create it would help...

On the ArcGIS.com side, we are working on exporting directly from the website to a FGDB, which would contain the attachments. Scheduled for release at this point, by the end of the year.

Thanks,

Mike

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

BrianFlood — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:09:28 GMT

if you are looking for on-demand or continuous backup of your Feature Service data/attachments, you could try out this new service:

http://www.arc2box.com

It connects to your AGOL account and exports your data to your DropBox account. It's free now during beta testing but we're targeting a low subscription price ($9/month)

cheers
brian

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

LeonScott — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:16:33 GMT

I do have the sync option enabled.

To access the data in Desktop I do the following
1) Log into organizational account for ArcGIS.com
2) Access item details for my feature service
3) Select Open->"Open in ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop"
4) Open the downloaded ArcGIS Portal Item file
5) Open "Edit Features"->"Create Local Copy for Editing" from the context menu of the service

I was curious why the Open menu on ArcGIS.com specified the 10.1 version, but that I figured that was nothing.
If you need access to my service to reproduce the problem, please contact me and I'm sure I can make that work.

And for the record, exporting directly to FGDB would be great!

Leon

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

senemfidan — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 05:25:33 GMT

While I'm trying register to Arc2Box it gives an error "A valid coupon is required for the Arc2Box Beta program"

So Is there anybody who knows what's the coupon?

My purpose is via this Arc2Box to download whole my attachments from Arcgis Online to dropbox with features id.

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

BrianFlood — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:39:30 GMT

hi

we're going to move to an open beta very soon, in the mean time if you want to test the service please send me an email directly (bFlood at arc2earth.com )

We're moving some of the internal parts around to make it more efficient for multiple Org users to backup the same data. We also want to support different backup file types (shp, geojson, kml, FGDB etc) At the same time we're layering some new functionality over the top of the service, more info to come next week

cheers
brian

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

AlisonKuemmel — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 20:12:29 GMT

Good afternoon,

I have come across this need in my organization. I know the newest updates came through this week, was this addressed in any of these updates to ArcGIS online?

Thank you,
Alison

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

MikeMinami — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 22:27:08 GMT

I'm updating this answer based on the current version. You can export to a file geodatabase that will contain the attachments.

Navigate to the item page of your hosted feature layer.

Find the layer you want to export features and click the small arrow next to the name to reveal a context menu, and export the data to a file geodatabase. You can then download a ZIP file of the geodatabase, that will contain the attachments

---------------

Original Reply

Export of attachments is supported through the API only at this time. It was not included in the update this week.

You can navigate to the REST endpoint of your service, like this:

http://services.arcgis.com/xxxx/arcgis/rest/services/states/FeatureServer

Click Create Replica
Specify the Layers by index number e.g., 0,1,2 (this service above has 5 layers)
Set the boolean values to true.
Sync Model = none
Data Format = FileGDB
Click Create Replica.

This will start a process that will yield a zip file you can download.

Thanks,

Mike

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

DonPritt — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:26:20 GMT

Looks like ESRI's inching towards this ability, which is good, this is a huge importance for my organization and the future of us staying with our organizational account.

Re: Export Feature Service with Attachments

AlisonKuemmel — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:23:10 GMT

Thank you for your reply, Mike!

This sounds promising, but for my rest service I only have the option of Query, Update Features, Apply Edits, or Generate Renderer.

(Create Replica is not a choice)

Is there something different I should do when I first set up the parcel service? Our organization's administrator actually posted the data, but I could take that part over if it gives different access rights.

I've attached a screenshot of the rest service page that I come to for my parcel layer.