I was reading the following as a convenience feature:
If you have a small amount of data in a shapefile, you can make it available for others to view through a web browser by adding it as a .zip file containing the .shp, .shx, .dbf, and .prj files to a map you create with Map Viewer. Shapefiles—Portal for ArcGIS | ArcGIS Enterprise
But it looks like the following really doesn't work:
county_properties = {'title':'Active Counties',
'tags':'counties, rigs, portal upload test',
'type':'Shapefile'}
counties_shp = mygis.content.add(county_properties, data='c:/temp/counties.shp')
Error while analyzing Shapefile 'counties.shp' Invalid Shapefile
Then, however, I can do this:
import zipfile
import glob, os
shpDir = 'c:/temp'
nametrunc = 'counties*'
files = glob.glob(os.path.join(shpDir,nametrunc))
with zipfile.ZipFile(os.path.join(shpDir,'counties.zip'), 'w') as myzip:
for file in files:
myzip.write(file)
counties_shp = mygis.content.add(county_properties, data='c:/temp/counties.zip')
I haven't had to upload a bunch of SHP files to Portal but it sure would be easier if you didn't have to zip them up.
