topic Re: How to upload a single feature class and keep symbology? in ArcGIS Online Questions

How to upload a single feature class and keep symbology?

ScottAulen2 — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:09:57 GMT

I'm looking for a way to upload individual feature classes as individual feature services. Let's say I have a map of local roads and city owned parks. I'd like for the two feature classes to be seperate services but the only option I've found is to remove one from the .mxd, share as a service and then do the other the same way (using 10.1 for this process). This is quite cumbersome and inefficient when dealing with a higher number of feature classes. It's important the symbology stays the same which limits uploading as shapefiles (I could in turn upload as a shapefile and then create custom symbology but this requires images to be hosted somewhere accessible to the public which again is cumbersome). Any other options?

Thanks,
Scott

Re: How to upload a single feature class and keep symbology?

MikeMinami — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:47:30 GMT

You can upload all layers into one feature service. With a feature service, you can access the layers individually via it's URL, for example, http://.../FeatureServer/0, where the last number is the layer index number.

From ArcGIS.com Map Viewer, if you add a feature service that is an item, you will get all layers inside the service into the web map and you'll have to remove those you don't want. So the workflow from the Map Viewer is to click "Add>Add layer from web" and specify the URL. We do want to add the ability to target a specific layer, but it's not implemented yet in the user interface.

thanks,

Mike

Re: How to upload a single feature class and keep symbology?

ScottAulen2 — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:52:27 GMT

Great, thanks Mike.