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Have Option to Host Multi-user ArcGIS Pro Parcel Fabric in ArcGIS Online Instead of Portal

JasonMcKeefry

Our organization, like many others I presume, have a limited need for multi-user editing. We have an enterprise geodatabase that meets the needs of our users and we use ArcGIS Online. We do not need another "local ArcGIS Online". We don't want to have more servers and software to manage...the Portal cost/benefit is quickly increasing. We have been using the ArcMap Parcel Fabric for many years, and we like what we've seen of the new ArcGIS Pro Parcel Fabric. Assuming that Portal really is based on ArcGIS Online and packaged for local use, it would be interesting if there was an option to host your ArcGIS Pro Parcel Fabric in ArcGIS Online so that those of us that use ArcGIS Online with no other need for Portal could still utilize a multi-user version of the ArcGIS Pro Parcel Fabric without having to install, manage, and maintain Portal. To my mind having more than 20 years of experience with ESRI products, the requirement of Portal for multi-user parcel fabric editing is a significant blunder, and impedes the adoption of otherwise valuable technology. Perhaps this suggestion is a relatively simple solution to that.

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JasonMcKeefry

Thanks, Amir. Some thoughts, for what it's worth. It looks like this requires the premium feature datastore subscription at $2800 per month, which is a non-starter for us. Assuming that barrier weren't there, the biggest value for us in something like this might be in the synchronization capability. So if this parcel fabric layer gets published to arcgis online and a couple users check out different areas or the whole thing and bring it down into a file geodatabase, does what ends up sitting in your file geodatabase behave the same as the normal file geodatabase parcel fabric with topology etc? So each user would then edit locally in the file geodatabase with its full capability and then sync back to arcgis online? Does what you have now support that kind of a workflow? Thanks again.

AmirBar-Maor

@JasonMcKeefry

With The last ArcGIS Online release, the 2026.R2, the Parcel Fabric can be deployed to ArcGIS Online.

Any organization with a Premium Feature Data Store can make use of it right now.

AmirBar-Maor

To learn more and make an educated decision it is important first to review these resources:

AmirBar-Maor

@JasonMcKeefry

We are delighted to know this is exciting for you as well.

We are planning to release it in 2025.

@DanielStone - FYI

JasonMcKeefry

That is exciting! Thank you, Amir (and team). My hope is that this will ease the conversion from ArcMap parcel fabric. I have been holding off converting to Pro Fabric, in part, to see what happens with this. Any chance this might be available sometime in 2025?

AmirBar-Maor

Implemented but not released yet

jcarlson

@AmirBar-MaorOh! That's really cool to hear!

AmirBar-Maor

@jcarlson this is very sweet of you. But there are many customers that don't have the knowledge, need, and IT support to set up an enterprise environment.

@JasonMcKeefry this is and has always been part of the long-term vision for parcel fabrics.

It aligns well with the global trend of moving IT infrastructure to the cloud.

There are software engineering challenges to solve - but that is ours to figure out 🙂

When people upvote this idea, please drop a note what is your motivation? simplicity? cost? IT support? small organization?

jcarlson

The Parcel Fabric requires the full functionality of an Enterprise Geodatabase.
Publishing to AGOL is akin to publishing a Hosted Feature Service on the Portal side. Publishing a Pro Fabric is not possible by those means either, so AGOL and Portal are equivalent in that respect.

They key sticking point here isn't so much the Fabric as it is Branch Versioning. Branch versioning is only possible via an Enterprise service. Supposing the Pro Fabric supported traditional versioning, then, sure, you could publish to a server and just connect to that service via AGOL, or just use it on-premise with a local DB connection.

I don't know your particular IT situation, but if all you needed it for was the Parcel Fabric, a single-machine install of Portal would not be terribly difficult to set up or manage. You could probably even get it to work on a virtual machine, though I've not tried that.