topic Re: Feature Templates Not Holding in Feature Service in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Feature Templates Not Holding in Feature Service

AnneSanta_Maria1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:51:50 GMT

Good Morning,

We are working with the utility network and are having trouble keeping feature templates to hold between the map we are publishing from and the feature layer/service. We have feature templates created for all the layers in our initial map based on subtypes. When we publish the feature service and bring that back into ArcGIS Pro some of the templates are not holding their default values. See below.

Below is the feature template for the layer Electric Device in the initial map we publish to our portal from, the defaults are holding.

After publishing the service we bring the feature layer Electric Device back into a new map in ArcGIS Pro and some of the defaults in the feature template are no longer holding. See the image of the template below.

If we delete all templates on the feature service layer in ArcGIS Pro and re-create the templates the defaults come back. But this should not be something we have to do for each layer every time we might need to change something. Has anyone run across this issue and have any suggestions to solutions?

Re: Feature Templates Not Holding in Feature Service

BrianBaldwin — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 15:11:07 GMT

@PaulLeBlanc1

Re: Feature Templates Not Holding in Feature Service

Scott_Harris — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 15:49:32 GMT

Hi,

What's the pattern with the fields that work vs. the fields that don't? What type of field?
Where does the default value come from? - values you defined in the template or are these defaults from the database itself?
What version of Pro are you using?
Can we assume the data you are publishing is branch versioned?
Is Technical Support involved? They can assist with narrowing things down, and log a bug if necessary.

Thanks,

Scott

Re: Feature Templates Not Holding in Feature Service

AnneSanta_Maria1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:09:00 GMT

1. Fields that don't work have different domains based on the subtype. The domains vary based on the subtype. So some subtypes have the domain electric device status Open/Closed and others have Electric Device State- Active/Inactive. The field is short integer, the domain is also a short coded value domain.

2. Defaults are set in the database configured at the subtype level - not in the feature template.

3. Pro Version 2.6.2

4. Yes it is all branch versioned. It cannot be published without branch versioning.

5. Next step would be to involve tech support.

Re: Feature Templates Not Holding in Feature Service

Scott_Harris — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:00:00 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for the additional information. I've notified the proper development team. If you need to track the bug, Esri Technical Support will be able to give you a bug number.

Thanks,

Scott

Re: Feature Templates Not Holding in Feature Service

RayGarrett — Mon, 03 May 2021 09:45:02 GMT

Has a resolution been found for this issue? I am experiencing the same problem. It is not just one field not having the proper default but all fields that are set at the subtype level. I am using ArcGIS Pro 2.6.3 and Enterprise 10.8.1.

Thank you,

Ray

Re: Feature Templates Not Holding in Feature Service

RoggerCorrea — Mon, 31 May 2021 04:57:24 GMT

I'm getting the same error and I found a potential tedious workaround. You have to click on the drop-down options, and select AGAIN! your default values. After that, it should turn green on the left side and then you can republish. Would be good if there's a better solution than just having to click one by one all your template items. Cheers,

Re: Feature Templates Not Holding in Feature Service

tigerwoulds — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 18:19:38 GMT

WOW - I was tearing my hair out trying to figure this out. Default values are working correctly in Pro 2.7 but when I publish this data as a feature service to Enterprise 10.8.1 the default values are NULL. This is what worked for me:

Set default value > click into another field > click back into the field where I am setting the default value > click OK.

Re: Feature Templates Not Holding in Feature Service

MichailMarinakis1 — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 07:35:30 GMT

Same problem here with ArcGIS Pro 2.8 and Enterprise 10.8.1. Hope it is fixed soon. The workaround with changing the default value > click into other field and back does the trick.

Re: Feature Templates Not Holding in Feature Service

MichaelDerevnin — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 18:49:04 GMT

This bug is holding with PRO 2.8.3 (and supported enterprise and geodatabase).

With having 15 subtypes with changing domains it is not very pleasant workaround, but it works. Thanks for this, I was just about to give up and go back to ArcMap.

Re: Feature Templates Not Holding in Feature Service

tigerwoulds — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 18:23:10 GMT

Anyone know if this is fixed in Pro 2.9.1+?

@Scott_Harris

Re: Feature Templates Not Holding in Feature Service

Scott_Harris — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 13:10:56 GMT

Hi @tigerwoulds I dug through some old emails and found where the issue I reported to the development team was tracked as [BUG-000135141 Feature templates: default values for subtypes are null in a feature service] in Esri Technical Support. Looking up that bug, I see that it was fixed in 2.8 (see this list of issues addressed here https://www.esri.com/content/dam/esrisites/en-us/media/products/arcgis-pro-issues-addressed/arcgis-pro-2-8-issues-addressed.pdf)

If you are still reproducing in 2.8 and above, perhaps there is a difference in the issue you are seeing vs the original problem that was reported by @AnneSanta_Maria1 in this thread?

If it is indeed the same issue, my first suggestion would be to republish the service at 2.8 or 2.9, making sure the subtypes and their default values in the templates are behaving correctly before publishing.

If that's not working, my suggestion is to work with Esri Technical Support to help understand what aspect of the issue is different than the original bug.

This may or may not help: one workaround for the original bug was to delete the "bad" template that gets brought down from the service and recreate it in Pro.

-Scott

Re: Feature Templates Not Holding in Feature Service

AndreasB — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:42:23 GMT

Hi @Scott_Harris

Are you aware of an issue where all the feature templates are created for a web map.

Yet whenever we publish this map and add this webmap again to ArcGIS Pro all the feature templates are gone from the map.

Is this a known bug?

Thanks in advance!

Re: Feature Templates Not Holding in Feature Service

Scott_Harris — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:56:46 GMT

Hi @AndreasB ,

That sounds like this one: https://support.esri.com/en-us/bug/feature-templates-in-a-referenced-feature-service-are-b-bug-000154579

I haven't seen where the templates are gone completely, but I do see where templates are automatically generated in the web map to match up with the symbology on the layers. Example: if a layer uses a unique value renderer a template is created for each symbol class. I'm not 100% certain, but I think this is due to a limitation of the web map - since a template is required to create a specific symbol class while editing in the web map (in portal or AGOL).

Re: Feature Templates Not Holding in Feature Service

AndreasB — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:15:59 GMT

Hi @Scott_Harris ,

Thanks for the information!

I see the following;

In ArcGIS Pro the templates are there for the web map.

I go and check in the map viewer

I see that the templates are there

Yet when I add this published web map to my arcgis pro I get the following result.

I could be related to the bug, but it still seems a bit different?

Re: Feature Templates Not Holding in Feature Service

Scott_Harris — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:29:42 GMT

Yes, that seems different. There could be many factors involved so please reach out to Esri Technical Support so they can help narrow it down and log a new bug if needed.

Thank you!