Export feature service with attachments!!!!

[MikeBell]

Our ArcGIS Online credits are dropping fast...and it appears to be a direct result of the photo attachments on one of our feature services (about 2000 photos).

Can you let me know when this functionality will be available?

Has anyone tried to script this?

We want to move the whole lot (feature service and photos) to our own server however doesn't look like it'll be happening for a while!

Mike

[MikeMinami]

I believe there were issues with ArcMap 10.1 in creating a local copy for editing. Attachments were not available. This has been addressed in version 10.2.

Thanks,

Mike

[WoodyBailey1]

I believe there were issues with ArcMap 10.1 in creating a local copy for editing. Attachments were not available. This has been addressed in version 10.2.

Thanks,

Mike

What am I missing? After jumping through all the hoops I managed to get ArcGIS Desktop 10.2 (Standard) installed. I connected to ArcGIS Online and added my data with attachments. The first screen shot shows that the layer is clearly from AGO and the attachments are working. [ATTACH=CONFIG]26652[/ATTACH] As soon as I go through the steps to "create a local copy for editing" the attachments appear to just disappear, the second screen shot shows how the attachments appear to be gone. Also seen in the second screen cap is how I attempted to enable attachments on the resulting local copy created above yet it returned that the were already enabled. [ATTACH=CONFIG]26653[/ATTACH] I also tried all of the above after going into the html popup of the layer properties and checking "Download attachment data" If someone can please tell me what I am missing, it would be very much appreciated, my trial is nearly over and if I can't get this to work, I can't justify to management that we need to sign up for ArcGIS Online. I also tried using the "extract data" tool from under the layer in ArcGIS Online within the data management group. I extracted the area as a .gdb and still no attachments. [ATTACH=CONFIG]26654[/ATTACH]

[BrianFlood]

hi

we're going to start beta testing this Backup service for ArcGIS Online. Scheduled and manual backups of your Feature Services and Attachments directly to DropBox (where they are automatically copied to your desktop etc). It's a great way to keep backup copies of your online services or to always have local access to your attachments from field data collection

http://www.arc2box.com

cheers
brian

[WoodyBailey1]

Bflood... Your service sounds interesting, however since it appears you are extracting the ArcGIS Online data as .shp
I do not see how there is anyway you are maintaining the relationship between the attachment and the feature it was 'related' to.

The problem with this whole ArcGIS and Attachment thing as far as I can see is we can NOT get access to the related table.
When you choose to create 'local copy for editing' for some reason (1000 feature limit issue??) the related tables come down EMPTY.
I worked extensively with ESRI Support and after many trials we were FINALLY able to get the related tables for attachments to come down complete with data. As soon as I presume the issue is resolved I sign up my client, post their data only to be stuck now with the same problem. PLEASE ESRI give me access to the related tables so I can interact with data posted to AGO in the desktop.
I fear the same is true regarding where the data pertaining to who last edited a feature and when... I would really like access to this table as well.

[BrianFlood]

hi woodybwp

agreed, the best option for one-off downloads is definitely a FGDB w/attachments embedded. I believe esri is working on this right now. fwiw, the attachments that are copied to DropBox have the feature Id embedded in the name of the file. also, in the next revision, the geojson backup file also includes the attachment IDs/urls directly in the properties collection.

We got some great feedback and are revamping the Arc2Box service to include some additional features that will help for continuous syncing of feature edits made in ArcGIS Online (via any of it's apps/apis etc). We will still use the AGOL export facilities for shp backup (and the FGDB when that's ready) but the main backup/sync engine now uses another method to continually find changes to the feature service layers (inserts/updates/deletes/attachments). The changes are then exposed as edit feeds that can be monitored by desktop apps (or any app) to keep their local datasources synchronized. Near realtime access to the edit feed also opens up a whole host of other services as well, but more on that coming soon.

cheers
brian

[BrianFlood]

we're looking for AGOL users to beta test Arc2Box.  Backup, Sync and Alerts for your Feature Services

Backup - Daily exports of your feature service data and atatchments to DropBox. Shapefiles for now but we'll support whatever formats ESRI adds in the future

Sync - Near realtime edit detection for your services. Finds insert/updates/deletes and creates an Edit History that can be used for Undo/Redo. Sync WebHooks can be configured to receive notification of all edits, good for integrating with your own workflow or databases

Alerts - Configurable filters that are triggered when edits occur. You can filter by edit type, feature attribute or by spatial proximity to another feature service (ex: "Alert me when a complaint is added within 200 feet of my School Zone layer"). Notifications can be Emails, SMS messages or Zapier subscriptions for easy integration with hundreds of other web services.

cheers
brian