topic Re: Sharing a map privately for testing in ArcGIS Online Questions

Sharing a map privately for testing

AndyKubrin — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:04:07 GMT

I'm working on a new map that currently has sharing set to Owner. That's the way I want to keep it for now, because I'm not yet ready to share this map publicly.

However, I want to see how it will look on a private web page with the <meta> tag set to noindex.

Is there a way to generate a link or code snippet for a map without sharing it publicly?

Re: Sharing a map privately for testing

DavidSolari — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:28:09 GMT

There may be ways to do this using the Javascript SDK and a few lines of code, but if you want an apples-to-apples comparison of the embed links in maps then you have to use a public map. Are you able to create some dummy layers with nonsense data/fields and then add that to your test map? Or maybe add some world atlas layers if you need a high-level appraisal of the embedded map.

Re: Sharing a map privately for testing

AndyKubrin — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 15:42:07 GMT

A dummy map sounds like the best approach. Thanks