Support for Attribute rules in ArcGIS Online

[Yann-EricBoyeau]

At pro 2.4 ESRI implemented attributes rules at the file Geodatabase Level which is great.

It means that when you copy or move the file geodatabase, you copy or move the rules.

So if you upload this fgdb to AGOL, the rules are uploaded within the fgbd. 

Attribute rules are « able to travel » to AGOL.

At the moment these rules are not interpreted or implemented at the AGOL level.

The idea here is to have the rules interpreted and implemented in AGOL when publishing feature services from a rules enabled fgdb.

It would be great to have attributes rules fully implemented in ArcGIS Online.

This would allow users to have their own QC and field calculation in hosted feature layers and web apps !

(edited 2020-07-24 to improve this description)

[D_AnneHammond]

YES! Upvoting this, we need attribute rules in AGOL, Portal, and in feature services for field data collection.  The current workarounds (manually setting Arcade) are time consuming and often need to be repeated.

[nlibassi-col]

As a workaround, I recently tried using a Python script to update a field based on values in another field - the script resides in an AGOL Hosted Notebook executed every 15 minutes via a task (available in the notebook). As long as the attribute table does not need to be accessed via ArcGIS Online, it works as expected, but when access is attempted via AGOL, most of the time, we see the spinner indefinitely - the table has to be updated from ArcGIS Pro as it cannot be displayed in ArcGIS Online. The exception to that (the period when it worked as expected) was during initial testing when a single user was attempting to modify values in the attribute table. When we had multiple users attempting to modify attributes via ArcGIS Online, all users reported the inability to view the table in ArcGIS Online. 

[RViruet]

Please implement this.
It's 2026, and managing calculations via a python script is getting unmanageable, I could easily deprecate 10 scripts if I migrate the logic to attribute rules.

[laurentideicesheet]

Why isn't this implemented yet? The post has hundreds of kudos and has been up for 7 years (currently 2026). The people crave attribute rules in agol!!

[TD1]

add me to the list. I need it as well

[Katie_Clark]

This is a sorely needed functionality, and it seems the community has clearly expressed this through kudos and comments on this ArcGIS Idea. What else can be done to help get this more traction? 

It can be a bit discouraging for community engagement when we're still getting directed to this idea by Esri staff in 2026, telling us to upvote the idea, when it's been around since 2019...

[ZacharyHart]

@Katie_Clark But how will Esri continue to monetize AGS if AGO has eGDB level sophistication? 

I think this is the point here.  

[Bud]

Here’s an example of something I would do with AGOL attribute rules:

Upon feature creation, copy to different feature layer

[Bud]

Related ArcGIS Online Idea: Auto-incrementing integer field (at AGOL feature layer level)

[Tiff]

Bumping this post and emphasizing the importance of this. Can we have an update on whether attribute rules can eventually be used and supported in ArcGIS Online and hosted feature layers?