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ArcGIS Hub site editors can now unlock expanded functionality in their site content catalog. When signed in to a site workspace, look for the Upgrade catalog notice on the Catalog > Content pane. Select Upgrade to upgrade your site's catalog for added functionality.

Upgrade catalog notice

When you upgrade, your existing content catalog is preserved and you won't lose anything. Best of all, this new catalog functionality gives you more control and granularity to build custom catalogs and share your content as you see fit.

Upgrading means that users who have opted out of workspaces will not be able to use the classic editing interface, including the following functionality for a site: Classic groups manager, Classic feeds configuration, Classic content library, and Classic feedback.

Benefits of upgrading

Configurable catalogs are a powerful way to organize your content. Before upgrading, the classic content library has limited customization options. Upgraded catalogs offer greater control, better organization, real-time customization, and future-proof design. Learn more.

Create custom collections

The ability to create custom collections is the big benefit Hub site editors and all site visitors will experience with the catalog migration. Custom collections allow you to organize content into distinct subsets for easier browsing and discovery. Previously, you were able to rename, reorder, show, or hide your collections.

Now, you can do so much more! In the Catalog configuration window find Configure collections, where you can create and modify collections using a wide range of parameters:

• Manual selection
• Created date
• Modified date
• Type
• Sharing
• Categories
• Tags

Catalog parameters

Each parameter will offer different criteria and selectable options. The image below shows options for Type.

Options for Type parameter

You can also modify collections that existed prior to upgrading. Previously, default collections could only be renamed. Now you will have the ability to configure those collections to better suit your needs.

Be sure to select Save changes (at the bottom of the Catalog configuration window) when finished to save all your custom settings for the content catalog. Upgrade your site catalog today to see these benefits and have greater control over customizing catalogs of curated content.

Catalog functionality matrix

Not ready to upgrade quite yet? No problem. Just select Cancel on the upgrade notification. You can upgrade at any time. Just return to your site’s content catalog to find the Upgrade catalog button.

Upgrade catalog button

Establishing a clear domain strategy is essential before you start adjusting custom domain and DNS settings. Having a good strategy in place ensures scalability, simplifies maintenance, and creates a seamless user experience across your ArcGIS Hub ecosystem - regardless of the number or scope of your sites.

In our “What’s New in ArcGIS Hub-September 2025” webinar, we explored some of the recent updates in ArcGIS Hub. These include workspaces, the new site management experience, new flexibility with configurable catalogs, and advancements in collaboration.

Keep reading to get answers to key questions from the webinar that we’ve compiled for you here.

You are an administrator managing a community organization using ArcGIS Hub Premium and need to effectively and efficiently share content privately from your primary organization to members of the community organization. 

ArcGIS Hub Premium enables seamless collaboration between primary and community organizations. This guide walks you through an admin-friendly setup that ensures: 

• A secure content sharing framework from primary to community organization 

• All existing community members can access shared content 

• New community members automatically receive the same access 

• A robust and sustainable process 

Within ArcGIS Hub, we’ve streamlined the Gallery card by consolidating it with the Events card. Moving forward, both will now live under a single component: the Gallery card.

Quick Summary:  Your site visitors will experience no visible changes when viewing a Gallery card. Everything should look and function the same — but behind the scenes, we’ve made some meaningful improvements to simplify and extend card management.

What’s New…

Browse and add trusted content from ArcGIS Hub catalogs directly within Map Viewer. Its a smoother, smarter way to map with curated community data.

We are excited to announce that ArcGIS Hub now supports map visualization of 3D scene layers, elevation layer, 3D tiles layers directly within the application. This enhancement brings immersive and seamless 3D content exploration for your visitors with no extra navigation or clicks required.

If you are a data editor or manager in ArcGIS Hub, a new capability allows you to display a layer's customized style so that viewers can more easily understand the data they're exploring.

Valuable time and resources go towards collecting, maintaining, and sharing data. Now you can share your authoritative data in a way that gives you more control over which data are displayed, which features or attributes are highlighted, and whether symbology is accessible to all. Custom styling is particularly relevant to larger or complex datasets, as another tool to fine tune what your data communicates.

Previously, layers in explore view were styled with Hub's default blue. With this enhancement, feature service editors can now choose between the default style or set the style of the layer from the item settings in ArcGIS Online. Learn more…

We are underway with designing enhancements to layout editing. 

We have a quick (and hopefully) fun survey that will help us with naming something.

Take the survey - 

https://arcg.is/0nT8Wq1

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Thank you for helping! If you join the Hub User Lab, you can expect more research and feedback opportunities in the near future around layout editing. ⬇️

https://hubuserlab.esri.com/

Join us on September 25, 10:00am-11:00am (PT), for our What’s New in ArcGIS Hub webinar. Esri product experts will be discussing the latest release of ArcGIS Hub, which introduces workspaces as well as enhanced events and configurable catalogs. 

• Learn about workspaces, the latest default management experience of Hub, which allows for a more approachable, well-organized navigation and management experience. Explore the blog.  

• Explore how enhanced events introduces more user-friendly and streamlined event setup and management. Explore the blog.  

• Discover how configurable catalogs enable users to organize and share content datasets based on themes, areas, groups, and tags, enhancing curation. Explore the blog. 

Register now: https://www.esri.com/en-us/webinars/product/whats-new-in-arcgis-hub-september-2025. 

We can’t wait to see you there.