topic Re: Uploading folder to ArcOnline in ArcGIS Online Questions

Uploading folder to ArcOnline

FSD_Main — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:45:31 GMT

I'm trying to upload a folder that has a lot of .pdf pipe inspection reports on to ArcOnline. What would be the best way to do this? I see I can individually upload files, but there's a lot there to do one by one. Our crews are used to having a hyperlink to click on via ArcPro/Map that pulls this up when inhouse, connected to the domain. But I noticed these paths are broken when using Experience builder or WAB. So i was going to upload these files to our Online and then create a hyperlink that way. Is this possible? Or what would be the best way to get this to work? Thank you.

Re: Uploading folder to ArcOnline

gis_KIWI4 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 01:43:06 GMT

@FSD_Main - The reason those links those links that work via ArcMap will not work with AGOL is because your enterprise environment is possibly unreacheable over the internet. I like your idea of uploading the documents.

This is surely possible but I would change the approach slightly.
Instead of uploading to AGOL, would you have the chance to use Sharepoint or something similar?
So a point feature class in AGOL but they point to documents in Sharepoint.

Two advantages of doing it this way -
1) The Sharepoint site will have built-in PDF viewer, AGOL does not provide any such capability. Users will end up downloading all the documents to view them.

2) Sharepoint allows better organization of documents. Folders, Tags, Version History, access controls, etc.

Bonus advantage - You can use ArcGIS for Sharepoint for a map view within sharepoint.

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We do it similarly.
We have a point feature class on the map that points to a pdf document in Sharepoint.

Re: Uploading folder to ArcOnline

FSD_Main — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:47:33 GMT

I ended up using that attachment tool and directly attached the document to the database in Pro. That seems to be working pretty well as we don't have a cloud environment as of yet to reach these documents outside of our network. But if we do get something set up that will be how I do it in the future. Thank you!