I am seeing something similar where publishing from a SDF like sdf.spatial.to_featurelayer() creates the layer but there are no features.
I have followed the https://developers.arcgis.com/python/sample-notebooks/html-table-to-pandas-data-frame-to-portal-item... example but in my case I only need to produce the SDF from known Lat Long fields so I use the following code basically I have tried all the methods out there and all produce broken services or services with features that only show up in the map view classic? No Idea.
sdf = pd.read_excel("combined gis.xlsx")
#used this as a work around to try instead of the from_xy() same result lat longs are backward in my sheet
sdf['SHAPE'] = sdf.apply(lambda row : arcgis.geometry.Geometry({'x': row['Long'], 'y': row['Lat'], 'spatialReference': {'wkid': 4326}}), axis=1 )
sdf.spatial.set_geometry(sdf['SHAPE'])
#used this but produces a empty service but the sdf plots fine in the map in my browser
# sdf = dataframe1.spatial.from_xy(dataframe1, x_column='Long', y_column='Lat')
print(len(sdf))
#filtered features with 0,0 in case that was causing a problem
sdf = sdf[sdf.Lat != 0]
print(len(sdf))
print(sdf.spatial.sr)
# print(sdf)
#the import just creates an empty service
# fc = gis.content.import_data(sdf)
#this also creates an empty service
lyr = sdf.spatial.to_featurelayer('EMPTY USELESS LAYER', gis)
#sdf plots fine in the jupyter notebook browser
map1 = gis.map()
map1.add_layer(sdf)
map1
This workflow has never worked for me and so I have always just saved things locally to a feature class in FGDB then published from there. If anyone has any ideas I am listening! from_xy is simple enough but there is something happening when I try to import it or publish it - maybe with the projection? Maybe I am missing something simple.
I have looked at all samples and people have had similar issues but this scenario is even more basic than most and it doesn't work.
Thanks!
