Publish an Editable Web Feature Class

[Abdullah_AlFazari]

Hi Team,

I'm trying to publish an editable Web Feature Layer where the users should be able to edit and update some fields. I have this feature class in a FGDB, and whenever I tried to publish the layer to the portal, I got the below error:

and there is no option to correct this error. Any thoughts?

[berniejconnors · Accepted solution]

FGDB does not support editing on a featrue service.  You need to use an Enterprise geodatabase.  Here is a similar question - https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/layer-s-data-source-not-supported-feature-serv...

[Abdullah_AlFazari]

Hi @berniejconnors 

Thank you very much for your response. Much appreciated.

I will try to connect using an Enterprise geodatabase but this will allow users to edit directly before we make our QAQC of the data. That's why I was hoping to use FGDB.

[Scott_Tansley]

Use a copy of the feature class as a staging table or consider using a hosting feature service for staging?  You don’t have to edit the authoritative feature class directly.

with regards to the fgdb approach.  A ms word document on a windows file share will only allow one person to edit it because of windows applying locks to the file. The same is true of a fgdb.  One instance of a map/feature service is the equivalent of a user in this contact.  Multiple instances of a service are like multiple users. Windows is the limiting factor and so you need a multi-user (enterprise) geodatabase. 

[DerekLaw]

Hi @Abdullah_AlFazari, 

As @berniejconnors said, your data source needs to be stored in an enterprise geodatabase to publish a feature service. File geodatabase data are not supported. Learn more in the help topic,

Prepare data to publish a feature service

Hope this helps,

[Abdullah_AlFazari]

Hi @DerekLaw 

Thank you very much for your response and being here. Much appreciated. will try it now.

[Blevins_Mark]

@DerekLaw  i understand you cant publish a feature service from an fgdb...but you can go into the server manager and enable feature service access on the map image layer service to then spin up a feature layer...are there any gotchas or potential pitfalls to going this route? thanks.

[berniejconnors]

I have created an "idea" related to this topic - "Read-only feature service from FGDB".

Bernie.