Archiving with hosted feature layers

[BenjaminSperry1]

I have a dateset that requires archiving, I would like to publish it as a hosted feature layer but I don't see anyway to maintain or set new archiving options on a hosted feature layer. Is this possible? if so, how? if not, what is the alternative process for hosted feature layers?

For more context. I am collecting data that is audited by government regulators. They require that all instances of a record are retained. For example if I need to correct a data entry error both the original incorrect record and the corrected record have to be retained. Archiving is the best method for this.

To cut short some of the things I have tried:

Enabling editor tracking: This doesn't retain the previous values and if multiple edits have been made on a record only the last editor is retained.

Copy the correct data to a "clean" datasets. This has proven to be excessively technically difficult. My dateset has related tables, so if I crate a corrected copy of the record the relationship is lost.

ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7.1

ArcGIS Pro 2.5

Many thanks,

Ben

P.S.

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[JakeSkinner · Accepted solution]

Hi Benjamin,

You'll need an ArcGIS Server feature service rather than a hosted feature service.  The ArcGIS Server feature service will reference the feature class in your enterprise geodatabase, which you'll want to enable Archiving on. 

[BenjaminSperry1]

Hi Jake,

Thank you very much for the response. Does this mean that archiving in AGOL is not possible?

Thanks

[JakeSkinner]

Yes, that is correct.  Archiving is not available with AGOL hosted feature services.

[BenjaminSperry1]

Thank you , that is very helpful.