https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/copy-item-new-item-still-points-to-original-hosted/m-p/1284073#M4468 <P>Recently I called the <A href="https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/users-groups-and-items/copy-item.htm" target="_self">/copy endpoint</A> on a hosted feature layer in Portal (10.9) expecting that it would create a new hosted feature layer entirely with an exact copy of the original layer's schema and data.&nbsp; The result was a bit different than expected.&nbsp; A new item was indeed created and the new item and original item have different item IDs as expected.&nbsp; But the new item's URL is identical to the original hosted feature layer.&nbsp; The sublayer URLs are also the same for both the original and the new item.&nbsp; It seems to be a shallow copy of sorts, instead of creating a whole new hosted feature layer it seems to be a pointer back to the original.</P><P>Is there a way to copy and item in Portal and make it a deep copy resulting in a new item AND new hosted feature layer with separate underlying data?</P> Fri, 28 Apr 2023 20:18:22 GMT LNX 2023-04-28T20:18:22Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/copy-item-new-item-still-points-to-original-hosted/m-p/1284073#M4468 <P>Recently I called the <A href="https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/users-groups-and-items/copy-item.htm" target="_self">/copy endpoint</A> on a hosted feature layer in Portal (10.9) expecting that it would create a new hosted feature layer entirely with an exact copy of the original layer's schema and data.&nbsp; The result was a bit different than expected.&nbsp; A new item was indeed created and the new item and original item have different item IDs as expected.&nbsp; But the new item's URL is identical to the original hosted feature layer.&nbsp; The sublayer URLs are also the same for both the original and the new item.&nbsp; It seems to be a shallow copy of sorts, instead of creating a whole new hosted feature layer it seems to be a pointer back to the original.</P><P>Is there a way to copy and item in Portal and make it a deep copy resulting in a new item AND new hosted feature layer with separate underlying data?</P> Fri, 28 Apr 2023 20:18:22 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/copy-item-new-item-still-points-to-original-hosted/m-p/1284073#M4468 LNX 2023-04-28T20:18:22Z