topic Re: maxRecordCount in ArcGIS Online Questions

maxRecordCount

Paco — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 19:58:15 GMT

Another question about maxRecordCount.

My AGOL Hosted point Feature Layer only allows up to 1000 selected features in my Webapp.

Like many others before me, I have tried updating the Service Definition maxRecordCount to a higher number(10,000) and save, but the selection still stays at 1000. and it also reverts back to 1000 in the Service Defintion. there are a few places to update that maxRecordCount in the definition, and only one of those reverts back to the lower number.

ESRI can we please get an explanation on Selecting AGOL Hosted Features? please advise how to raise that maximum selection.

thx!

Re: maxRecordCount

KenBuja — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 20:38:51 GMT

When you updated it, did you also set the lastEditDate value to null in step 7 of the instructions?

Re: maxRecordCount

Paco — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 21:11:22 GMT

Yep. would i need to update All of the "_lastEditDate"s?

"lastEditDate" : null,
"schemaLastEditDate" : 1675798413474,
"dataLastEditDate" : 1675798413474

still, everytime I go back to check the Definition, the null is gone and the max count is back to 1000

Re: maxRecordCount

KenBuja — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 21:32:24 GMT

When I needed to change it, I only modified the lastEditDate.

Re: maxRecordCount

HollyTorpey_LSA — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:18:34 GMT

Are you certain that you selected the desired layer within the feature service and updated its maxrecordcount value? I believe you need to do this even if your feature service has only one layer. And then I think you may also want to update the maxrecordcount for the parent service so that it's at least as much as the maxrecordcount of the layer it contains.

Re: maxRecordCount

Paco — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 23:03:56 GMT

Yes. I am opening the specific Hosted Feature Layer in AGOL(using 'View' URL on the Overview page. which gets me to the ArcGIS REST Services Directory, and clicking on "Admin" in the upper right, and clicking on "Update Definition" at the bottom.

searching for and updating "maxRecordCount" and "lastEditDate"(10,000 and null) and clicking on "Update Service Defintion".

going back to my Experience Builder application, the selection box still only allows 1000 features. and if I go back to the Service Defintion, those updates have reverted back to 1000 and random numbers again.

has anyone gotten this to work with their AGOL Hosted Feature Layers? does it only work in Portal? any ideas?

thanks again!

Re: maxRecordCount

Clubdebambos — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 10:37:33 GMT

Hi @Paco

I use the Python API to set the maxRecordCount for individual layers in a Feature Service as shown below.

from arcgis import GIS from arcgis.features import FeatureLayer agol = GIS("home") update_dict = { "maxRecordCount": "10000" } item = agol.content.get("FS_ITEM_ID") for lyr in item.layers: print(lyr.properties.name) fl = FeatureLayer(lyr.url, agol) print(fl.manager.update_definition(update_dict))

You can then check that this sticks by printing out the maxRecordCount property for each layer.

from arcgis import GIS from arcgis.features import FeatureLayer agol = GIS("home") item = agol.content.get("FS_ITEM_ID") for lyr in item.layers: print(lyr.properties.name) fl = FeatureLayer(lyr.url, agol) print(lyr.properties.maxRecordCount)

Re: maxRecordCount

HollyTorpey_LSA — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 22:07:00 GMT

@Paco wrote:
Yes. I am opening the specific Hosted Feature Layer in AGOL(using 'View' URL on the Overview page. which gets me to the ArcGIS REST Services Directory, and clicking on "Admin" in the upper right, and clicking on "Update Definition" at the bottom.
searching for and updating "maxRecordCount" and "lastEditDate"(10,000 and null) and clicking on "Update Service Defintion".

But after you click 'View', are you clicking on the layer name before clicking 'Admin'?

Re: maxRecordCount

Paco — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 22:43:27 GMT

Holly! I actually was going to post a conclusion to my question earlier today! and THIS was the issue. thanks for posting. I was not going far enough into the Service and choosing the specific Layer. I didn't think I needed to because I only had One Layer per Service, but I did.

so, click Service URL, CHOOSE LAYER, Admin, and alter the field numbers. even if there is only One Layer in the Service.

Thank you everyone for your input. moving forward now!

Re: maxRecordCount

HollyTorpey_LSA — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 01:50:59 GMT

Cool! Glad I could help! (Or that you figured it out on your own!) 🙂

Re: maxRecordCount

RamonWilliams — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:05:12 GMT

what is the maxrecordcount that you can set. i'm querying a service that has about 491,000 records and i know that my query should have about 144,771 records in it. how can I pull back that or is it too much?

Re: maxRecordCount

jschuckert — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:23:51 GMT

@Clubdebambos , do you know if you can set the parameter to something other than the default at the time of publishing with the Python API? Or can you only update the parameter after publishing with the code you have outlined?

Re: maxRecordCount

ErinHourihan — Tue, 21 May 2024 18:31:49 GMT

Thank you for sharing this solution! Worked perfectly!

Re: maxRecordCount

HollyTorpey_LSA — Fri, 24 May 2024 20:05:11 GMT

According to this resource, "for ArcGIS Online hosted services, maxRecordCount has an upper limit of 32000 for points, and an upper limit of 4000 for lines and polygons."

Re: maxRecordCount

SMH-Rio — Sat, 25 May 2024 01:54:41 GMT

Using the script for ArcGIS Enterprise, despite being successful at all stages, the definition is not actually updated.

And when I try to use the same update_dict syntax directly in Enterprise, it also indicates success but does not update the json.

But thanks for sharing the code.

Re: maxRecordCount

AntEsk — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 04:36:54 GMT

i had same problem, resolved by updating a featureLayer collection made from the item and using an integer for maxRecord Count

flc = FeatureLayerCollection.fromitem(item)
flc.manager.update_definition({'maxRecordCount': 10000})

Re: maxRecordCount

ModernElectric — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 20:33:59 GMT

@Clubdebambos Wondering if you could assist me with this?

Having a hard time getting this to work for AGOL Portal.

Re: maxRecordCount

Clubdebambos — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:25:18 GMT

Hi @ModernElectric,

The below works fine for me in AGOL.

from arcgis.gis import GIS ## Access ArcGIS Online agol = GIS("home") ## get the feature service as an Item object item = agol.content.get("FS_ITEM_ID") ## for each Feature Layer in the Feature Service ## update to the maximum record count per geometry type for lyr in item.layers: print(lyr.properties.name) if lyr.properties.geometryType in ("esriGeometryPolygon", "esriGeometryPolyline"): print(lyr.manager.update_definition({"maxRecordCount" : 4000})) # 4000 is the max for Polygon & Polyline elif lyr.properties.geometryType == "esriGeometryPoint": print(lyr.manager.update_definition({"maxRecordCount" : 32000})) # 32000 is the max for Point

You can also update the maxRecordCountFactor.

for lyr in item.layers: print(lyr.properties.name) if lyr.properties.geometryType in ("esriGeometryPolygon", "esriGeometryPolyline"): print(lyr.manager.update_definition({"maxRecordCount" : 4000, "maxRecordCountFactor" : 2})) # 4000 is the max for Polygon & Polyline elif lyr.properties.geometryType == "esriGeometryPoint": print(lyr.manager.update_definition({"maxRecordCount" : 32000, "maxRecordCountFactor" : 2})) # 32000 is the max for Point

When using the ArcGIS API for Python Feature Layer query() method you can set the return_type parameter to "standard" which will use the standardMaxRecordCount which is multiplied by the maxRecordCountFactor (eg 4000 * 2 = 8000 or 32000 * 2 = 64000)

Re: maxRecordCount

Clubdebambos — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:32:53 GMT

Hi @jschuckert,

Apologies for the delay, there was a long period there I was not getting notifications so had no clue if I was being tagged or responded to.

While I have not tried setting the maxRecordCount at publishing, the documentation for the publish() methods states you can via the publish_parameter parameter. More info here.

If using ArcPy to publish from an APRX you can also set the maxRecordCount.

All the best,

Glen