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Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

AndreaB_ — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 14:02:28 GMT

Hi all,

I am following this blog post: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-online/mapping/introducing-related-record-editing-in-map-viewer/

In my Forms I see the new 'Related records' element at the bottom. Unfortunately, when I expand the arrow down, I see "No related records available. Create new related records in ArcGIS Pro'.

Well that's not true because I have a related record and I also configured to see it in my pop ups!

soo, is this a bug? or anyone else have this problem and a way to solve it?

Thank you,

Andrea

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

EmilyGeo — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:25:00 GMT

Hi @Andrea,

could you provide additional details?

Are you referring to a feature-to-feature or feature-to-table relationship?

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

AndreaB_ — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 14:59:46 GMT

Hi @EmilyGeo,

Thanks for the reply. It is a feature-to-table relationship. I was configuring the form for the parent feature.

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

bbollin — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 13:58:19 GMT

Is this a 1-1, 1-M, or M-M cardinality @AndreaB_

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

bbollin — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 13:59:23 GMT

Also, would you be able to share your data with us so we can take a closer look

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

AndreaB_ — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 14:01:14 GMT

Hi @bbollin,

This is a 1-1. Thank you.

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

AndreaB_ — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 14:24:06 GMT

Sure, I took out most of the attributes so I can share it. It's a test layer anyway with just one feature and one record. How do you want me to share?

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

bbollin — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 14:32:22 GMT

@AndreaB_you can send me a direct message with the service, shared publicly

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

bbollin — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:19:54 GMT

Alright, from taking a look at the service you sent me @AndreaB_ you actually have relationship configured where the table is the parent and the feature is the child.

Currently this is not supported in AGOL, but may be something we consider adding support for in the future. I would suggest swapping the order of the relationship so it goes from feature - table. Thanks!

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

AndreaB_ — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 20:20:17 GMT

Hi @bbollin,

Thanks for figuring that out. I think we have our geodatabase relationship set up table as parent and feature as child to preserve the table records in case the feature is deleted - as described in this best practice help documentation. https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/3.1/help/data/relationships/relationship-class-properties.htm

For this particular case, I was just testing the new AGOL functionality and I'm not sure our workflow would use hosted feature services and editing features in that hosted relationship. I think if we need this functionality it would be more likely an Enterprise Portal related data feature service in an AGOL map. So we await that future enhancement to be available some day.

I would add my strong support for table - feature relationships in AGOL also. Is there an Idea already posted somewhere that you know of?

Thanks!

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

bbollin — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 20:55:48 GMT

@AndreaB_you should be able to achieve the same deletion prevention by making it a simple relationship, not composite. The latter will delete any child features when the parent is deleted, the former (which is the default choice) only deletes the parent feature.

There is not an idea already that I am aware of. I'll pass the feedback to the team as well, but creating an ideas post in AGOL would be great to gain more traction.

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

AndreaB_ — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 21:21:27 GMT

Thanks. Here is the new idea post I created: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-ideas/map-viewer-forms-related-records-support-for-table/idi-p/1348931

Yeah, so in a simple relationship the table record will remain but I should have said - the foreign key will be changed to Null, introducing errors into the foreign key field. Understandably more of a problem with 1:M not so much in a 1:1, but still. I tested it with my data and a table record with the foreign key field changed to Null wouldn't help much if you were trying to tie it back to your data for some reason. That Esri documentation on this was helpful - https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/3.1/help/data/relationships/relationship-class-properties.htm

Thanks again!

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

MDB_GIS — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 20:42:22 GMT

I'm having this same issue, but I believe I have the relationship configured with the feature as the parent. Would you be able to assist me with this?

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

bbollin — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:05:12 GMT

@MDB_GISWhat is the relationship and how did you set it up in Pro?

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

MDB_GIS — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:06:42 GMT

It's a one to many relationship and I did set it up in Pro.

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

bbollin — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:50:33 GMT

Can you share the public service here please? Then I can take a look @MDB_GIS

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

MDB_GIS — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 12:55:30 GMT

I will DM it to you shortly!

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

AnatoliHailemariam — Sun, 12 May 2024 06:53:12 GMT

@AndreaB_ were you able to configure portal related data feature service in AGOL map? attempted that but limited success on my end.

when using portal related data feature service in AGO map, in the form builder, i dont see the "related records" section to configure the form for the related table.

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

AndreaB_ — Tue, 14 May 2024 14:11:52 GMT

Hi @AnatoliHailemariam, I didn't go further with this yet because we have to change the direction of our Related tables. We have it related from the Table to the Feature Class and it doesn't work that way. I confirmed it with Esri tech support. So when we change our relationship class direction (to from Feature Class to destination - Table) then it should work. So look at the direction of your relationship class.

Re: Related Records in Hosted Feature Service in Map Viewer - can't add to Form?

AnatoliHailemariam — Tue, 14 May 2024 14:29:25 GMT

Tnx @AndreaB_

I understand the direction matters and inmy case the origin is the feature and destination is table. to be clear here are the steps I took

1. create relationship class in pro ( feature origin and table destination : one to many )

2. published that to portal for arcgis 10.9.1

3. add the url of that published feature layer with related table in AGOL map ( not portal map)

4. go to forms section in agol map and no related records as it is shown in my screen capture of previous comment

on the other hand

1. create relationship class in pro ( feature origin and table destination : one to many )

2. publish it to AGOL

3. add the url of that published feature layer with related table in AGOL map

4. go to forms section in agol map and now I am able to see the related record section and ready to config the form

So, using portal hosted relationship class in agol map to configure form ultimately to edit the relationship isn't supported?