topic Accessing Portal Data Store Data in ArcPy in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/accessing-portal-data-store-data-in-arcpy/m-p/276358#M9511 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm trying to write a Web Tool (GP Service) that references a hosted feature service that I have published in Portal.</P><P></P><P>For example: I want to do a spatial join (intersect) with an input point location to a hosted feature service boundary.&nbsp; If I reference the feature service REST endpoint in the operation, it works fine.&nbsp; However, publishing as a web tool requires that I choose 'copy' the data and cannot access it by reference because it says the service is not registered with the server.</P><P></P><P>Ideally, I'd like to write a Web Tool (GP Service) that operates by reference to the actual data and not needing to copy any data.</P><P></P><P>I tried using a combination of ArcGIS API for Python and ArcPy.&nbsp; Instead of referencing the item by URL, I used `gis.content.get(id)` to get the item by ID and tried passing the feature layer `.layers[0]' into the Spatial Join operation.&nbsp; That didn't work.</P><P></P><P>How do you write ArcPy scripts to work with data/services as hosted feature services without needing to copy any data when publishing GP Services?</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 04 May 2019 05:36:03 GMT JoshuaTanner2 2019-05-04T05:36:03Z Accessing Portal Data Store Data in ArcPy https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/accessing-portal-data-store-data-in-arcpy/m-p/276358#M9511 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm trying to write a Web Tool (GP Service) that references a hosted feature service that I have published in Portal.</P><P></P><P>For example: I want to do a spatial join (intersect) with an input point location to a hosted feature service boundary.&nbsp; If I reference the feature service REST endpoint in the operation, it works fine.&nbsp; However, publishing as a web tool requires that I choose 'copy' the data and cannot access it by reference because it says the service is not registered with the server.</P><P></P><P>Ideally, I'd like to write a Web Tool (GP Service) that operates by reference to the actual data and not needing to copy any data.</P><P></P><P>I tried using a combination of ArcGIS API for Python and ArcPy.&nbsp; Instead of referencing the item by URL, I used `gis.content.get(id)` to get the item by ID and tried passing the feature layer `.layers[0]' into the Spatial Join operation.&nbsp; That didn't work.</P><P></P><P>How do you write ArcPy scripts to work with data/services as hosted feature services without needing to copy any data when publishing GP Services?</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 04 May 2019 05:36:03 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/accessing-portal-data-store-data-in-arcpy/m-p/276358#M9511 JoshuaTanner2 2019-05-04T05:36:03Z