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Failed to Publish Web Layer: Consolidation Failed

EricRoper — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 19:14:49 GMT

I am having an issue with publishing a Map to AGOL as a web map.

I am being told it is a "Consolidation Error". I tried shortening the file path by moving it from a folder buried in multiple other folders to the desktop. But I am getting the same error. Here is the JobLog:

Cruise Map 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:07 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Successfully wrote sharing info file
Cruise Map 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:07 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Creating thumbnail from map
Cruise Map 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:07 Status: Pending StatusMessage: Sharing process started
Cruise Map 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:07 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Sharing process started
Cruise Map 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:07 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Reading thumbnail from file
Cruise Map 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:07 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Sharing process started
Cruise Map 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:08 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Extracting all manifests from the configuration of the web map/scene
Cruise Map 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:08 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Publishing individual web layers
Cruise Map 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:08 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Creating the type keywords for the web map/scene
Cruise Map 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:08 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Extracting all manifests from the configuration of the web map/scene
Cruise Map 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:08 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Extracting all manifests from the configuration of the web map/scene
Cruise Map_WFL1 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:08 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Loading manifest
Cruise Map 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:08 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Reading thumbnail from file
Cruise Map_WFL1 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:08 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Publishing process started
Cruise Map_WFL1 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:08 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Consolidating data and staging web layer
New folder\Cruise Map 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:09 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Using ArcGIS Version 13.0 for staging (Source for version: GP Staging Parameters)
Cruise Map_WFL1 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:09 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Stage Tool initialized
Cruise Map_WFL1 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:09 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Preparing maps and layers for processing
Cruise Map_WFL1 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:09 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Consolidate data
Cruise Map_WFL1 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:09 Status: InProgress StatusMessage: Staging feature service
Cruise Map_WFL1 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:13 Status: Failed ErrorMessage: Consolidation failed
Cruise Map 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:13 Status: Failed ErrorMessage: ERROR 999999: Something unexpected caused the tool to fail. Contact Esri Technical Support (http://esriurl.com/support) to Report a Bug, and refer to the error help for potential solutions or workarounds.
Cruise Map 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:13 Status: Failed ErrorMessage: Failed to execute (StageService).
Cruise Map_WFL1 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:15 Status: Failed ErrorMessage: Staging failed
Cruise Map 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:17 Status: Failed ErrorMessage: Failed to publish web layer Cruise_Map_WFL1.
Cruise Map 5 WebMap Lancaster Conservancy https://www.arcgis.com/ eroper9 2023-02-08 13:59:19 Status: Failed ErrorMessage: Failed to publish one or more web layers

Any help is appreciated.

Re: Failed to Publish Web Layer: Consolidation Failed

Taren_Esri — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 20:59:12 GMT

Hi @EricRoper

Hope you're doing well. It looks like "Consolidation failed" points towards a potential incorrect path in your input data, that may not be represented by the traditional red exclamation point. A web map will fail to publish if a feature class's data source has been altered to point to a new feature dataset in the same file geodatabase. Please go through each of the sources in your map's Contents, and ensure they are all pointing to the correct data, and that adequate permissions are set for each.

Tip: You may be able to narrow down the erroneous layer(s) by moving half of your layers to a new Map, and attempting to publish. This will tell you which half of your data contains the issue. You can repeat the process to further narrow down the problem layer(s)

Best,

Taren

Re: Failed to Publish Web Layer: Consolidation Failed

Aaron_Sutton — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:15:11 GMT

I had a similar error. When I exported the feature classes from the geodatabase to a shapefile, it published properly.

Re: Failed to Publish Web Layer: Consolidation Failed

Geraldine — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 10:24:53 GMT

I ran into the same issue. There was a connection to an invalid GDB under 'Databases' in the Catalog (this gdb was not used in the map nor by the tool). After deleting the connection I could publish the tool succesfully

Re: Failed to Publish Web Layer: Consolidation Failed

GoviPaulHines — Tue, 20 May 2025 14:47:29 GMT

Along the same lines, I just had this error this morning and it turns out I had a layer pointing to a source in the wrong feature dataset. Everything else was correct, but remarkably, it didn't show a red exclamation and the layer was still displaying (perhaps due to caching?).

Re: Failed to Publish Web Layer: Consolidation Failed

AaronKoelker — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:46:14 GMT

Just wanted to throw it out there for anyone who comes across this, I was running into this error while trying to publish layers specifically for ArcGIS Indoors. The solution was to run the Upgrade Indoors Database tool. Apparently I had added some custom domain values that may have threw off one or more of the attribute rules for Indoors. If you're not using Indoors, may be worth checking your attribute rules if you are using those.

Re: Failed to Publish Web Layer: Consolidation Failed

MiltonSolano — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:49:42 GMT

@AaronKoelker ,

As today (Janury 12, 2026) this is exactly what was going on with my publishing attempts: the ArcGIS Indoors schema was not updated vs the AGOL version. This after copying some records on ArcGIS Pro from and old Indoors database. After running the Upgrade Indoors Database tool, the publishing process ran smoothly.

Thanks for taking the time to post this. It saved me some hourse trying to diagnose.

MJ