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Enable subfolders in ArcGIS Online

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05-01-2023 06:47 AM
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JohnNergeBrooklynPark
Frequent Contributor

Saw some older posts on this but decided to start a new one to hopefully get some fresh perspectives.

It would be really usefult to be able to create subfolders within ArcGIS Online's My Content section. I feel like this is a pretty universally standard capability among online hosting tools like OneDrive, DropBox, Google Drive, etc.

With as much as ArcGIS Online has grown over the years, it would be really valuable to be able to use subfolders to organize projects. One example would be if you're, say, building an Instant App that's sharing results from a Survey123 survey via one or more hosted feature layer views. In that situation, it be great to be able to have a folder structure like so:

  • Main project folder
    • Survey subfolder for form and default feature layer and views
    • Instant app subfolder for web map and app
    • Feature layer view subfolder for views used to share the data publicly
    • Subfolder for experimental/not in use stuff like trial instant apps etc.

I'm guessing people have many projects where there are 10+ items in a folder, and it can get really tricky to figure out which thing is which without the ability to better organize all the items.

Is this something Esri is open to implementing/ArcGIS Online users want?

11 Comments
MappyIan

"Make subfolders, for the love of sanity." - I echo this comment from @cloopadoop completely.  We need subfolders.  It's mental that they're still not available in ArcGIS Online.  Organising content with a flat folder structure is a total nightmare once you have more than a handful of items.