idea Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference) in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

AllanBenvin_yyc — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:35:23 GMT

We have a requirement for tables stored in an enterprise geodatabase to be published to Enterprise (portal) and be editable. Currently there are two ways to do this.

Publish from Pro and add a dummy featureclass to the map then publish. You do get the table but then you have to always have a feature class published with it. This adds an unnecesary item to the service and makes things more confusing.
Publish using Bulk Publishing in Enterprise 10.7. This creates a separate service for each table. No featureclass is required. The downside is it published all objects that the datastore credentials have permissions on.

(Manage bulk-published layers—Portal for ArcGIS | Documentation for ArcGIS Enterprise )

So it seems to me that the ability to publish standalone tables exists somewhere internally but does not seem to be exposed in Pro or in the incredibly poorly named "ArcGIS API for Python". It would be very useful to deliberately publish a standalone table by reference to Enterprise (portal) using ArcGIS Pro.

-Al Benvin

PS: Fifteen years ago we had developers adding Null geometry columns to their standalone tables so they could be published and consumed via services. It seems we are not much further along now than we were then.

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

Amanda__Huber — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 19:58:42 GMT

Yes yes yes! This is exactly our issue as well.

ArcGIS Enterprise‌ please consider allowing Standalone Tables to be published by reference to ArcGIS Portal/ Enterprise (without a dummy layer). This functionality would help our organization out immensely.

Thanks!

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

GISCityofPrinceAlbert — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:21:22 GMT

Hello, I was wondering if this was ever solved. Publishing standalone tables to ArcGIS portal by reference is exactly what I need to do for my current project.

Thank you!

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

valenj88 — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 18:25:28 GMT

Bumping this. It still seems as though you need a dummy featureclass to publish a standalone table. Any updates?

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

BrendanSoulé — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:16:20 GMT

Looks like the issue persists in Pro 2.9.1

It would be really helpful to publish a standalone table that references the enterprise GDB so updates made to the table are shown in the service. Can this be done?

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

HeatherM_JDI — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 17:55:11 GMT

This would be very helpful for many workflows in our organization.

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

Tolo__AdamTolo — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 04:32:08 GMT

Agreed would love to get this...

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

DrewDowling — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 04:20:42 GMT

Sadly this is still an issue.

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

GarretGiordanoTOLE — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 20:52:11 GMT

Bumping... this is killing me right now.

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

EmanuelBurman — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 09:00:10 GMT

Hello Esri

Nothing would make your users more happy then if you stop developing new products for a cuple of month and just start solving fundimental problems with your legacy produkt. Every issu I run in to can be find is some multiple year old thred here and they never seem to be solved. It seams like such low hanging fruit for Esri.

/Emanuel

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

JenniferSmits — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 03:31:56 GMT

Yes please vote for registered stand alone tables.

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

BradleyMcCallum — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 21:23:10 GMT

Yes, it would be nice to separate the spatial tables from the 'business' tables.

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

TedDarby — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 22:13:15 GMT

I would love to see a solution for this. We would like to keep our data tables in SQL Server and just reference them instead of pushing them to Enterprise as hosted.

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

KernR_Teranet — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:01:57 GMT

Bump.

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

AdamJehu — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 05:53:19 GMT

This simple, and still very much relevant, feature request has been open for years without feedback. Anything ESRI?

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

DeorajRamsaran1 — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 23:39:44 GMT

I am just curious since I need this for mu org as well has this been resolved?

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

MarcelBeckmann1 — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 07:39:45 GMT

Hello ESRI,

we also need this funtionality.

It is really sad to see that ESRI just does not give anything about this basic requirement of their users for years!

Really sad.

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

GernotKainz — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 13:40:29 GMT

OMG I can't believe this is still an issue. Couldn't be that complicated. I searched for help cause i thought i am to dumb to do it correctly. Didn't know that there is no correct way to do so. Thanks for bringing this issue on the table. Three years ago. Hopefully it will be solved soon.

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

Laura — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 16:16:15 GMT

I really need this functionality to publish a tax parcel table to Portal. I can't even create a dummy layer to publish it the backward way as I am not the owner of the SDE so I am stuck with absolutely no solution and no parcels within my web apps. Sad to see this is not being implemented yet as it would be greatly appreciated and utilized @JonEmch

Re: Publish a standalone to Enterprise (by reference)

easchwe — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:52:32 GMT

Bump. Need to run scheduled SQL scripts against these tables with no dummy feature class. C'mon Jack!