topic Hosted Feature Service does not populate edit tracking fields in feature class in ArcGIS Online Questions

Hosted Feature Service does not populate edit tracking fields in feature class

GreggCornetski — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:56:17 GMT

I have a FGDB feature class which I deployed from ArcMap 10.1 as a Feature Service to ArcGIS Online for Orgs Hosted Services. I enabled 1) Editing (Add, Update, Delete) and 2) Track Edits. Feature Service is shared with the members of my organization.

The edit tracking works as expected when accessed from ArcGIS.com JavaScript map viewer; ArcGIS Explorer Online; and from ArcGIS iOS app. The CreationDate, Creator, EditDate, and Editor fields are populated as expected when viewed from these clients.

However, when I connect to the Feature Service from ArcMap 10.1, those same fields in the attribute table are not populated. The CreationDate and EditDate fields all default to 12:00:00 AM; the Creator and Editor field values are all NULL.

Interestingly, when I go to ArcGIS.com>MyContent>click on the Feature Service>export the layer to shapefile, the resulting shapefile attribute table does contain the CreationDate, Creator, EditDate, and Editor fields, and they are all populated with usernames and dates.

So there seems to be a bug when a hosted feature service is accessed with ArcMap 10.1. In that case the edit tracking fields are included in the attribute table, but they are not populated.

Re: Hosted Feature Service does not populate edit tracking fields in feature class

DennisJarrard — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:20:44 GMT

That is curious. I searched the Esri Resource Center and found that this behavior has actually been logged as a bug:

http://support.esri.com/en/bugs/nimbus/role/beta10_1/TklNMDgyNjE3

It looks like Development is aware of the behavior. Thanks for posting this!

Re: Hosted Feature Service does not populate edit tracking fields in feature class

Gyeong_MinRoh — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 05:48:54 GMT

I also have a similar problem with this.

In my case, I made a feature service from ArcMap 10.1 to ArcGIS Online.
And I opened this feature service again in ArcMap to add feature like this.

1) ArcMap 10.1 > File > Add Data > Add Data From ArcGIS Online > select my feature service, then

This feature service added normally but didn't display any features in ArcMap document although
I could see them in the attribute table.

Anyway,

2) I created "Local copy for Editing".

Then I still couldn't see anything in ArcMap document and even more all data in the attribute table disappeared.

Is it also a known bug of "Hosted feature service"?

Thanks in adavance.