Publishing WMS in ArcGIS Pro 2.9 adds numbers to the filenames

[PaulDrummond]

Hi.
We are upgrading our Enterprise system from 10.7.1 to 10.9.1 and I am testing a WMS/WFS service for Dial before you dig.

1. The old endpoints have just the file name published from ArcGIS Pro 2.5 to Enterprise 10.7.1.

Note line 3.

</Layer>
<Layer queryable="1">
<Name>VM Road</Name>
<Title>
<![CDATA[ VM Road ]]>
</Title>
<Abstract>
<![CDATA[ ]]>
</Abstract>
<CRS>CRS:84</CRS>
<CRS>EPSG:4326</CRS>
<CRS>EPSG:28355</CRS>
<EX_GeographicBoundingBox>
<westBoundLongitude>145.777710</westBoundLongitude>
<eastBoundLongitude>148.219478</eastBoundLongitude>
<southBoundLatitude>-37.171077</southBoundLatitude>
<northBoundLatitude>-35.895362</northBoundLatitude>
</EX_GeographicBoundingBox>
<BoundingBox CRS="CRS:84" minx="145.777710" miny="-37.171077" maxx="148.219478" maxy="-35.895362"/>
<BoundingBox CRS="EPSG:4326" minx="-37.171077" miny="145.777710" maxx="-35.895362" maxy="148.219478"/>
<BoundingBox CRS="EPSG:28355" minx="391478.294816" miny="5886149.234759" maxx="608271.985668" maxy="6026989.602759"/>
<Style>
<Name>default</Name>
<Title>VM Road</Title>
<LegendURL width="18" height="18">
<Format>image/png</Format>
<OnlineResource xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://[URL].au/server/services/DBYD/DBYD_WMS_WFS/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetLegendGraphic%26version=1.3.0%26format=image/png%26layer=VM Road" xlink:type="simple"/>
</LegendURL>
</Style>
<MaxScaleDenominator>4724.702381</MaxScaleDenominator>
</Layer>

2.   The new endpoint published using 2.9 has a number appended to the layer name...

</Layer>
<Layer queryable="1">
<Name>VM_Road38838</Name>
<Title>
<![CDATA[ VM Road ]]>
</Title>
<Abstract>
<![CDATA[ ]]>
</Abstract>
<CRS>CRS:84</CRS>
<CRS>EPSG:4326</CRS>
<CRS>EPSG:7855</CRS>
<EX_GeographicBoundingBox>
<westBoundLongitude>145.777716</westBoundLongitude>
<eastBoundLongitude>148.219484</eastBoundLongitude>
<southBoundLatitude>-37.171064</southBoundLatitude>
<northBoundLatitude>-35.895349</northBoundLatitude>
</EX_GeographicBoundingBox>
<BoundingBox CRS="CRS:84" minx="145.777716" miny="-37.171064" maxx="148.219484" maxy="-35.895349"/>
<BoundingBox CRS="EPSG:4326" minx="-37.171064" miny="145.777716" maxx="-35.895349" maxy="148.219484"/>
<BoundingBox CRS="EPSG:7855" minx="391478.818900" miny="5886150.695900" maxx="608272.488900" maxy="6026991.031000"/>
<Style>
<Name>default</Name>
<Title>
<![CDATA[ VM Road ]]>
</Title>
<LegendURL width="18" height="18">
<Format>image/png</Format>
<OnlineResource xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://[URL].au/server/services/DBYD/DBYD_WMS_WFS_2/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetLegendGraphic%26version=1.3.0%26format=image/png%26layer=VM_Road38838" xlink:type="simple"/>
</LegendURL>
</Style>
<MaxScaleDenominator>4724.702381</MaxScaleDenominator>
</Layer>

Why are the numbers getting appended to the <name> tag on line 3?

The service is identical in Server Manager and I have just saved the old workspace and published with a new version of ArcGIS Pro (2.9) to Enterprise 10.9.1.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[PaulDrummond · Accepted solution]

As way of an update...

The issue is that the layer names have spaces in them – ArcGIS Pro 2.9.6 automatically replaces the spaces with underscores, and when it does this it appends a number (not sure on what the correlation).

[SrinivasVinnakota]

From https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/publish-services/windows/available-wms-service-proper...

The suffix number is a computed value based on the original string and is not random. As such, it will remain the same as long as the layer name is unmodified. For example, if there are two layers named Layer "1" and Layer [1], both would be converted to Layer__1_. To differentiate between the two, a unique number would be appended as a suffix to the modified string. In this example, the modified layer names would be Layer__1_1234 and Layer__1_1256, respectively.