topic Re: Validation Service option is missing when trying to share UN from Water Network Solution in Pro 3.3 in ArcGIS Utility Network Questions

Validation Service option is missing when trying to share UN from Water Network Solution in Pro 3.3

VHolubec — Wed, 15 May 2024 22:28:35 GMT

Hello,

I would like to share the data from Water Utility Network Solution (custom data not the sample data), but when I open the Sharing dialog I am missing there the option for Validation Service -

Wouldn´t you have any idea, where to look to I would be able to publish is correctly? What settings I could miss? Data should be set correctly:

Thank you for any tips!

Re: Validation Service option is missing when trying to share UN from Water Network Solution in Pro 3.3

RobertKrisher — Wed, 15 May 2024 22:36:17 GMT

Make sure you've met all the criteria for sharing dataset with attribute rules. The two most common problems I see are that the error layers are missing from the map being used to publish the service, or in some cases, the datasets being shared don't have any attribute rules configured. If in your custom model you have removed all the validation attribute rules then you will not have an option to enable the validation capability (you will also not have the ability to add the error layers to your map).

Re: Validation Service option is missing when trying to share UN from Water Network Solution in Pro 3.3

VHolubec — Wed, 15 May 2024 22:50:44 GMT

Thank you @RobertKrisher, for answer, by Error layers do you mean the Errors/Dirty Areas created with Enabling Topology or the Error layers which can be added from TOC from the Asset group subtype?

The latter mentioned is greyed out in my case. But all the rules should works, I kept the default - just import custom Asset package created based on the default one

But the editing errors in the map (before the topology is enabled - the errors raised by running the Enable Topology with option to show errors only) worked fine, as well as the validation - run by the enable topology tools again, so I hope everything should be fine there.

Re: Validation Service option is missing when trying to share UN from Water Network Solution in Pro 3.3

RobertKrisher — Wed, 15 May 2024 23:10:38 GMT

Before we dig too much deeper, the map you're using to publish your feature service should not include subtype group layers. Services published in this way have a number of known issues with them that cause various tools and popups to not display information properly.

The validation capability on the service refers to the ability to evaluate attribute rules and requires that you publish a service with error layers (the greyed out piece you referred to above). The "Add Error Layers" command isn't enabled on branch versioned data database connections, only on branch versioned services. In your case you will need to manually add the error layers to your map.

By adding these layers to your map, that option will become available (assuming you've also met all the other prereqs).

Managing dirty areas and running the "Validate Network Topology" command are a capability of the utility network that is automatically added when you publish a feature service that includes a utility network.

Re: Validation Service option is missing when trying to share UN from Water Network Solution in Pro 3.3

VHolubec — Thu, 16 May 2024 11:42:36 GMT

Thank you @RobertKrisher, give me a day or two please, I deleted all and starting everything from scratch and I won´t go directly from AssetPackage, but via Single User FGDB prototype to migrate data to Services without errors in topology.

Re: Validation Service option is missing when trying to share UN from Water Network Solution in Pro 3.3

RobertKrisher — Fri, 17 May 2024 13:28:17 GMT

Actually ... at ArcGIS Pro 3.3 and ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3 you should be able to check the validation box without the layers in the map. Doing so will actually cause an analyzer error that tells you which layers are missing and gives you a context menu option to add them to your map.

See example below

Re: Validation Service option is missing when trying to share UN from Water Network Solution in Pro 3.3

ChelseaRozek — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:56:14 GMT

@RobertKrisher I've gotten to that step and it's handy that it can pop those error layers into the map for you, but when I Analyze again, those errors are still there and I can't publish. Any ideas? I only have a point layer and its 4 error layers in my map, coming from a connection as the data owner to the default version of the layers on our enterprise geodatabase. Pro 3.5.2.

Re: Validation Service option is missing when trying to share UN from Water Network Solution in Pro 3.3

RobertKrisher — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:11:06 GMT

I just verified that this works when publishing a feature service that contains a single feature class with attribute rules configured using ArcGIS Pro 3.5 final and 3.5.2. Make sure that you meet all the requirements for publishing error tables in the Share datasets with attribute rules topic in the ArcGIS Online Help.

Re: Validation Service option is missing when trying to share UN from Water Network Solution in Pro 3.3

ChelseaRozek — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:07:57 GMT

Thanks for confirming that it works in this version. I scoured the documentation again and I'm doing everything right. I accidently closed the map in my project and when I reopened it (and thus a new Sharing as a Web Layer panel), it allows me to publish now. It's like it didn't recognize it when I added those error layers from the Analyze errors. Oh well, it's published now! Thanks