topic Detecting ArcGIS service creation/modification date and time? in ArcGIS REST APIs and Services Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/detecting-arcgis-service-creation-modification/m-p/641935#M3130 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there a way to tell via the REST API when a particular ArcGIS service was created or modified?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm writing a Silverlight application, and for the user's convenience I'd like to preserve their current state for them, such as extent and custom layer visibility settings - settings which might depend on the layer ID.&nbsp; If I preserve the settings using the layer IDs, there's a chance that the GIS administrator might come in later and change the service, and in doing so, change the layer IDs.&nbsp; Then my preserved settings are no longer valid.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>To detect changes in an ArcGIS service, I'd like to be able to query the REST interface and look at a single attribute, such as "Last Modified", and compare this with a value I store in my application.&nbsp; This would allow me to quickly tell if my stored settings are invalid.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any thoughts?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>David</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:57:16 GMT DavidSchuster1 2012-02-22T23:57:16Z Detecting ArcGIS service creation/modification date and time? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/detecting-arcgis-service-creation-modification/m-p/641935#M3130 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there a way to tell via the REST API when a particular ArcGIS service was created or modified?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm writing a Silverlight application, and for the user's convenience I'd like to preserve their current state for them, such as extent and custom layer visibility settings - settings which might depend on the layer ID.&nbsp; If I preserve the settings using the layer IDs, there's a chance that the GIS administrator might come in later and change the service, and in doing so, change the layer IDs.&nbsp; Then my preserved settings are no longer valid.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>To detect changes in an ArcGIS service, I'd like to be able to query the REST interface and look at a single attribute, such as "Last Modified", and compare this with a value I store in my application.&nbsp; This would allow me to quickly tell if my stored settings are invalid.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any thoughts?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>David</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:57:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/detecting-arcgis-service-creation-modification/m-p/641935#M3130 DavidSchuster1 2012-02-22T23:57:16Z