ArcGIS Hub Blog

Configuring custom domains and SSL certificates is just the beginning. Once your ArcGIS Hub sites are live, you want people to find them. In doesn’t matter if they're internal users searching for resources or members of the public looking for data and initiatives.

With your domain strategy in place, it’s time to put it into action. This begins with custom domain configuration and SSL certificate management. These essential steps ensure your ArcGIS Hub sites are secure, reliable, and authoritative. In Part 2 of our series, we’ll guide you through setup and best practices to build user trust and maintain consistent, secure connections. If you missed Part 1, catch up on it here: Plan a scalable domain strategy for ArcGIS Hub.

Custom domains are often the first interaction your users have with your Hub sites. They help establish brand identity, simplify access, and provide a consistent experience across your organization.

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. When you upgrade, this new catalog functionality gives you more control… keep reading to learn more.

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…