I have been trying to figure out how to improve our ArcGIS Online governance here at The Claremont Colleges Library, which holds the license shared by all seven of the Claremont Colleges.
In order to cut down on credit usage for Feature Storage, I have been trying to find out how best to determine which items in our organization are “out of circulation” (and which could therefore be made private prior to eventual deletion).
I found the “Date Last Viewed” column in the “OrganizationItems" reports from the ArcGIS Organization -> Status -> Reports page, and thought it might be a useful indicator, but I’ve encountered an unexpected problem:
A disproportionate number of items have a “Date Last Viewed” of 11/12/2024 at 6:00 PM (it was 15787 out of 49917 files as of July) and 12/03/2024 at 4:00 PM (8514 items). It seems unusual that over a quarter of our items could have been viewed all at the same time on a specific day.
Does anyone know if it is possible that programmatic access through the Python API changes the “last viewed” date? Also, do you know what actions taken by users in ArcGIS Online, the Python API, or the REST API might register as “views” in terms of how “Date Last Viewed” is calculated?
Finally, do you know if the history of an item’s view dates is preserved anywhere (beyond just "Date Last Viewed"), and if so, could it be retrieved/restored?
Thanks!
