Support stand-alone XML metadata files in search services

[Will]

Please provide better support for stand-alone XML metadata files in ArcGIS Server search services.  Currently they are treated just as "files" and their descriptive contents (i.e. title, abstract, keywords, bounding box, etc.) are not indexed for searching.  We use stand-alone XML metadata files to document data that may be stored offline, hosted at a particular URL, or representative of a set or series of data, so to not have that content indexed in the stand-alone XML metadata is very dissappointing and limiting.  The old ArcIMS metadata server used to index stand-alone XML metadata files (even the bounding box!), so please make this same functionality possible in the ArcGIS Server search services.  And, please provide support for search services in ArcGIS Pro.  Thanks.

[NaicongLi]

Hello @Will ,

ArcGIS Server search services were deprecated in ArcGIS Server 10.6 and are not available with ArcGIS Enterprise deployments beginning with the 10.6.1 release. This was documented in the ArcGIS Server 10.6 help here: https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/10.6/get-started/windows/what-s-new-in-arcgis-for-server.htm... Search services were replaced by the search capabilities provided with ArcGIS Enterprise portals which are available to search in ArcGIS Pro, in the Catalog view, Catalog pane, and browse dialog boxes, for example:

In these Catalog windows, you can search in different portal places, for example, just in My Content, or My Groups, and so on.

To search stand-alone metadata XML files, you can configure and use the Esri Geoportal Server; please  see  https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/esri-geoportal-server/overview.

Thank you for your feedback.