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Default On: "Allow Assignment of Unique Numeric IDs for Sharing Web Layers"

JamesPoeschel — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:01:43 GMT

This is a long-awaited feature: to not have to check the "Allow assignment of unique numeric IDs for sharing web layers" button every single time we want to publish a web map.

Is there a reason why this is defaulted to be off? And is there a reason why we cannot have this setting set globally in the options settings?

Despite publishing over 200 web maps, I still forget that I need to manually change this setting. I believe this is one simple option that would make a lot of users very, very happy.

Original post from 2016: Defining default value for "Allow assignement of u... - Esri Community

Re: Default On: "Allow Assignment of Unique Numeric IDs for Sharing Web Layers"

MichaelVolz — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 18:26:04 GMT

I would be curious to hear from ESRI personnel why your idea of Allow assignment of unique numeric IDs default on would be detrimental?

Are there certain scenarios where this updated setting would cause issues?

Re: Default On: "Allow Assignment of Unique Numeric IDs for Sharing Web Layers" - Status changed to: Closed

JonahLay — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:39:41 GMT

We encourage users to consider assigning layer IDs as a step in the process of authoring maps for publishing. This ensures that the layer IDs are consistent and can be accurately referenced in web maps or applications. The analyzer error helps to prevent issues when overwriting services and alert users of this setting. This blog article and this ArcGIS Pro topic has some additional info that may be helpful.

Re: Default On: "Allow Assignment of Unique Numeric IDs for Sharing Web Layers"

SimonSchütte_ct — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:44:47 GMT

With ArcGIS Pro 3.6 we can define this as default in the user settings Defining default value for "Allow assignement of u... - Esri Community

Re: Default On: "Allow Assignment of Unique Numeric IDs for Sharing Web Layers"

Sian_Doherty_GHD — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:56:44 GMT

From behaviour i've observed in maps, it's not a map setting it's a user map setting. So i can have it turned on because i published. Someone else then needs to overwrite the service but if they haven't previously published that particular map (even though it's in the same aprx), they have to enable it. It would be so nice if there were a default option (not on 3.6 yet, still on 3.4).