Show Attachments in Web Map Popup
I work with a lot of customers that request the ability to display their feature service attachments in the web map's popup rather than a hyperlink. The attached script will convert the feature services attachments URL to a field. You can then display the attachment directly in the popup after some configuration.
Here is a screen shot on how attachments display within a web map popup by default:
Below are the steps to show the attached image directly in the popup:
1. Add a TEXT/STRING field (i.e. "Picture") to the feature service that can support a large amount of characters (i.e. 1,000).
2. Execute the attached GP tool.
3. Configure the pop-up to Show Images. Ex:
The image will now display directly in the popup. Ex:
Notes:
- the timeout for an ArcGIS Online feature service is set to the max of 15 days.
- the timeout for an ArcGIS Server service is set to the default 'Lifespan of long lived token'. The default is 1 day. This can be changed by going to Server Manager > Security > Settings. After the long lived token is updated, you can update the expiration parameter on line 33.
- Since the token will timeout, you can update the parameters in the script so this can be executed with Windows Task Scheduler. Here is an example of how to configure the parameters:
A video of the workflow can be found below:
flawless, thanks 
Hi Jake -- Thanks for providing this GP Tool. I keep getting an error message when I run it. The message states that the feature service does not contain attachments. The service is hosted in ArcGIS OnLine and it clearly has attachments. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
- Chris
Christine Seidel you don't have editing enabled on the feature service. Once you do, you will set the tool up like below. Don't forget to specify the layer by append /0 to the end of the URL.
Hello all. I am running ArcGIS pro 10.5.1
I am looking for help with the following error:
Malcolm Williamson you will need to enable Update capabilities for this service since this tool updates a field. Also, make sure you specify the /0 in the feature service URL. After enabling update capabilities, you can set up your tool like below:
Lidia Dudina I believe you are correct that there is a proxy issue. I was able to execute the tool successfully:
Unfortunately, I don't have a proxy to test against. I found the following web page that discusses Proxies with the Requests module. You may just need to add the following:
proxies = {
'http': 'http://10.10.1.10:3128',
'https': 'http://10.10.1.10:1080',
}And then update the response line:
response = requests.post(tokenURL, data = params, verify = False, proxies=proxies)For now, the Picture field is updated and you should be able to show attachments in the pop-up for the next 15 days.
I'm getting this error when I'm running the Tool
I guess this is really old, but I just ran the script, it says it's successful, but the field I calculated remains empty...
Hi Jake, I am trying to get your script to run in a toolbox in ArcGIS Pro with a feature service on ArcGIS Online. I am getting a token error. What would be the correct URL to the token generator and also the correct data parameters to the response POST. I would ultimately like to get something based on you example to work in a geoprocessing service in WebApp Builder widget. my service URL is of the form https://services1.arcgis.com/....../arcgis/rest/services/...../0 If I use the code as is I get the following error
SERVER: services1.arcgis.com
tokenURL: http://services1.arcgis.com/arcgis/admin/generateToken
response: <Response [200]>
Error: Line 120 -- "token = response.json()['token']": 'token'
if federatedServer == 'false':
if username and password:
try:
server = baseURL.split("//")[1].split("/")[0]
arcpy.AddMessage("SERVER: {0}".format(server))
tokenURL = 'http://' + server + '/arcgis/admin/generateToken'
#tokenURL = 'https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/generateToken'
arcpy.AddMessage("tokenURL: {0}".format(tokenURL))
params = {'username': username, 'password': password, 'client': 'requestip', 'f': 'pjson', 'expiration': str(1440)}
response = requests.post(tokenURL, data = params, verify = False)
token = response.json()['token']
except:
PrintException()
else:
token = ''
