On the item page, list where that item is being used

[SarahNoakes1]

Once you have shared your content to the world, it is accessible for anyone to use it.  

For example, other AGOL users (whether from your own organisation or anywhere in the world) may choose to add your feature layers to a web map. Then, if you change or delete this data, you could inadvertently break someone else's content - in fact I have done just that very recently.

It would be extremely useful if on the item page there was a tab "used in" that lists where that item is being consumed, giving the opportunity to contact the content owners and warn them about up-coming changes.

[DuncanHornby]

To add a use case scenario to this idea I would like it to be able to find out out where a hosted feature layer is being used in my own organisation, a sort of recursive search. For example if I had a hosted feature layer called rivers then I would like to know which maps are using it, in which folders, but also which apps are using the map with the river layer in it. This could be filtered by just me or people in my organisation as well as outside the organisation as Sarah suggests.

[JonathanMcD]

So, basically, a bit like when a view is created of a hosted feature layer there's information about the associated source/view in the details panel - think it would be super useful as an audit trail to have any info on maps/apps/dashboards used there too for organisations.

As for how it's used outside of an organisation, that's probably a bit much to ask for. As part of our Open Data site I publish around 160 datasets - my only consideration, at times, is to ensure consistency when updating. Imagine large sites, multiple datasets etc etc.

However, what I do, within the Hub Site, is use Google Analytics to monitor activity - gives me an idea of what's being viewed, if a user is filtering information on-site, or downloading etc.. Our Open Data datasets are also used on other sites too Scotland's SpatialHub, Open Data Scotland, and Data.gov.scot .... tracking those re-uses would be impossible.

[AndreaR]

Agree this would be a really useful feature - I've been hoping for quite a few years that this would be introduced as it seems like such a foundational data management tool.

[AlfredBaldenweck]

Yeah, I had an idea this summer related to this-- if an item's use was being tracked, then if it got deleted or something, you* could automate a message to the owners of the other items (maps, Experience Builder, etc.) saying "Hey this got deleted" or something. 

*By "you" I mean AGOL could do it without either person needing to know who the other is.

Regardless of whether messaging is possible, tracking this stuff would be great. Please add it in.

[QingyueLi]

Love this idea