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Cannot append data from ArcGIS Pro to hosted feature layer

nah — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 18:18:12 GMT

I have a lot of hosted feature layers that I am maintaining on a daily basis. Today I have experienced that I cannot append data to my layers anymore. Am I missing something?

My workflow is adding the hosted feature to ArcGIS Pro, deleting all rows in the attribute table, and then appending all new data from our internal enterprise database. I am doing it this way, because I've had troubles in the past with overwriting the layers (symbology messes up, data ends up missing).

However, it runs, and gives med the green operation complete sign without any errors, but the dataset is still blank.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Re: Cannot append data from ArcGIS Pro to hosted feature layer

RickeyFight — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 22:15:56 GMT

Did you recently update pro? What version of pro and enterprise are you using?

Re: Cannot append data from ArcGIS Pro to hosted feature layer

nah — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 07:33:42 GMT

ArcGIS Pro is updated whenever a new patch is available.

The enterprise version is 11.0.0 (build 35046).

Should I try exporting the data to a file geodatabase, and then appending?

Re: Cannot append data from ArcGIS Pro to hosted feature layer

RobEaly — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:29:19 GMT

I had a very similar issue on Friday with the "green operation complete sign without any errors but the database is still blank" showing up on screen while trying to overwrite my web layer . Everything appeared to work fine but I then discovered I had no data. However, the symbology and field alias all showed up correctly. My work around was to append the data in but that did not work correctly either and gave me a "database error during feature draw" error for unknown reasons in ArcGIS Pro. Currently, I can render the data in ArcGIS Pro but can't render the data at all in AGOL. However, I can see it correctly in the attribute table and the symbology looks correct in the legend. I wonder if this is related to the services1.arcgis.com issue from a week ago. I called in a ticket to ESRI and they are working on it.

Re: Cannot append data from ArcGIS Pro to hosted feature layer

JoshSmithWCWD — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:32:17 GMT

We're experiencing this same problem with a model. Did you ever find a fix or a workaround?

Re: Cannot append data from ArcGIS Pro to hosted feature layer

JustinH — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 21:04:25 GMT

I am currently experiencing this running ArcGIS Pro 3.2. I am using a model builder that deletes rows and then appends to the existing feature layer and I get 750 features when I should have 850. Not sure what is happening.

Re: Cannot append data from ArcGIS Pro to hosted feature layer

RobEaly — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 21:13:15 GMT

I just completely rebuilt the service. The append operation never worked correctly for me. I worked with an ESRI rep who said that the service had become corrupted and nothing could be done to fix it.

Re: Cannot append data from ArcGIS Pro to hosted feature layer

JustinH — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 21:33:09 GMT

It seems like mine might be corrupted as well. I am worried that this will happen on a scheduled run of the model builder too over time... I will republish the layer and see if it works though. Thanks for that input!

Re: Cannot append data from ArcGIS Pro to hosted feature layer

JoshSmithWCWD — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:59:14 GMT

Found a work around for this issue. It's slightly annoying, but it works.

1.) Create a file geodatabase with a feature class that is a carbon copy of the feature class in your Enterprise geodatabase.

2.) Append the data from your Enterprise geodatabase feature class to the feature class in your new file geodatabase.

3.) Append the data from the file geodatabase to the hosted feature layer.

Re: Cannot append data from ArcGIS Pro to hosted feature layer

MikeVolz — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:57:07 GMT

Josh:

Does this method provide consistent results where you always get the correct number of features in the hosted feature layer compared to the enterprise gdb at the time of appending data?

Re: Cannot append data from ArcGIS Pro to hosted feature layer

JohnCoddHere — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:01:30 GMT

@nah @MikeVolz @JoshSmithWCWD @JustinH @RobEaly

My ArcPro Version 3.3.1, Our Enterprise (Portal) is version 11.2. I am not certain if Geoprocessing Append is supposed to work between 3.3.1 and 11.2.

I had a similar experience as yours where I attempted to Append new (selected) features from Local File Geodatabase to Hosted Feature Layer. A number of them actually appended over to Hosted Feature Layer, but there was a warning that identified one Object ID that that had an unknown issue. It appeared that all the records after the problem record were not Appended. I attempted to Append without selecting the problem record, but the Append was not successful, even though it appeared to finish the process with a message of success. I tried that a few times without success. Finally I logged directly into my AGOL organization account to use the Update Data --> Add Features--> Upload the Zipped File Geodatabase.

Keep in mind you need to create a separate File geodatabase that has only has the feature class that includes the new records that you want to Append/Add to your Hosted Feature Layer. And you need to zip that File Geodatabase. This was successful.

Hope this helps someone!

-John

Re: Cannot append data from ArcGIS Pro to hosted feature layer

ChelseaRozek — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:54:41 GMT

Still seeing this at Pro 3.7.0. Trying to append to a brand-new hosted feature layer. No errors, but no features are appended. At least give us an error message please.