topic Sharing layers to a new group not being categorised in ArcGIS Online Questions

Sharing layers to a new group not being categorised

AndrewHankinson — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 03:37:44 GMT

Morning,

I have a group set up to share data between me and anouther AGOL user, I have shared data to this group previously and everything has been fine.

This time I have shared 9 hosted feature layers which have all been categorised, in my content if I select that category all the relevant layers are listed.

However, I have shared these layers to the group and they come through as 'Uncategorised' even though they are categorised and the category is in the 'Group categories' section.

Does anybody know why this would happen?

Re: Sharing layers to a new group not being categorised

BernSzukalski — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 04:23:52 GMT

There are two kinds of categories - organization wide categories and group categories. Group categories are uniquely defined within the group and can only be discovered by those with access to the content in the group.

Organization categories can be discovered by anyone with access to the content across the organization and are "outside the box" of group categories..

You can add content to a group by filtering based on organization categories. When you set up categories in the group, they are unique to the group and only apply to content in the group.

This is a dated blog article, but is still valid.

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-online/administration/content-categories-four-ways-an-introduction-to-organizing-and-finding-content-by-theme/

I think it would be beneficial and useful to search group content by organizaton categories, or to be able to set up a group using existing organization categories rather than create unique ones within the group.

I'll take this up with the dev team, but encourage you to add this as an idea if you agree and get others to vote it up.

Re: Sharing layers to a new group not being categorised

AndrewHankinson — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 05:01:16 GMT

Hi @BernSzukalski

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

I realised what I've done wrong, although I created the same category in the group as I have in the organisation I didn't assign this category to the layers correctly. I was expecting that once everything matched it would auto categorise or I could assign the category again in the overview page of the layer at worst so it would refresh.

Instead I needed to manually assign the group category to the layer via the ellipsis within the list view in the group.

It would be handy to have it so that if a layer is already categorised that if it is then shared to a group and the same category added to that group then all the associated layers would auto categorise instead of doing each one manually.

I've added the idea here - Automatic assigning of organisational categories w... - Esri Community

Re: Sharing layers to a new group not being categorised

AARussell — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:05:37 GMT

Thanks Andrew this was helpful as I was having the same issue!

Just wanted to add that the option to categorise within a group has changed from using the ellipsis within the list view. Now, you have to select the data within your group using the box on the left-hand side, and select the Categorize cogwheel. (see snip)