https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/spatially-enabled-dataframe-to-feature-service-how/m-p/1231978#M66065 <P>A better way would probably be to avoid it entirely. I've had lots of similar trouble publishing from a dataframe directly to a layer.</P><P>Personally, I would built the destination layer first in order to control the data types, then use the Python API to append data to it.</P> Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:05:47 GMT jcarlson 2022-11-15T21:05:47Z https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/spatially-enabled-dataframe-to-feature-service-how/m-p/1231925#M66064 <P>Hi All,</P><P>Fairly new to publishing spatially enabled dataframes, looking for advice on the following</P><UL><LI>python env either does not have arcpy, or has arcpy but does not have a license (not checked out or connected to license server</LI><LI>create a spatially enabled dataframe from various data inputs</LI><LI>publish to AGOL/Portal using either <STRONG>df.spatial.to_featurelayer()</STRONG> or <STRONG>gis.content.import_data()</STRONG></LI></UL><P>Both of the above methods seem to export the dataframe out to shapefile first before publishing to feature class. This is causing a couple issues on the back end (field values are being converted to different datatypes resulting in a failed publish)</P><P><STRONG>Is there a better way to publish spatially enabled dataframes in an environment that is not using arcpy?</STRONG></P><P>Thanks!</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 15 Nov 2022 19:37:36 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/spatially-enabled-dataframe-to-feature-service-how/m-p/1231925#M66064 I_AM_ERROR 2022-11-15T19:37:36Z https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/spatially-enabled-dataframe-to-feature-service-how/m-p/1231978#M66065 <P>A better way would probably be to avoid it entirely. I've had lots of similar trouble publishing from a dataframe directly to a layer.</P><P>Personally, I would built the destination layer first in order to control the data types, then use the Python API to append data to it.</P> Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:05:47 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/spatially-enabled-dataframe-to-feature-service-how/m-p/1231978#M66065 jcarlson 2022-11-15T21:05:47Z https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/spatially-enabled-dataframe-to-feature-service-how/m-p/1231980#M66066 <P>I was considering that and, yeah it would probably give better control over the destination schema.</P> Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:26:06 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/spatially-enabled-dataframe-to-feature-service-how/m-p/1231980#M66066 I_AM_ERROR 2022-11-15T21:26:06Z https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/spatially-enabled-dataframe-to-feature-service-how/m-p/1231982#M66067 <P>Just feels pretty odd having to write a file out to disk just to immediately read it back in....<span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":neutral_face:">😐</span></P> Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:30:13 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/spatially-enabled-dataframe-to-feature-service-how/m-p/1231982#M66067 I_AM_ERROR 2022-11-15T21:30:13Z