Is it possible to use vector base maps in Portal for ArcGIS?

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06-20-2019 02:04 PM
ChristopherBates
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I've been testing the functionality  of the ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor described in this ArcGIS Blog Post: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/developers/mapping/design-custom-basemaps-with-the-new-arc...

I'm wondering it is possible to consume the customs basemap in my organization's portal? I have a web map hosted in Portal that could really use a custom basemap.

Anyone have any success with this?

Thanks!

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ChristopherBates
New Contributor III

And I just realized that you said you are on 10.7. Thanks again for all your help. 

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ChelseaRozek
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Oh wow, I haven't seen that before with vector basemaps. Are the ESRI vector basemaps fine without the custom styling?

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ChristopherBates
New Contributor III

Yeah, ESRI vector basemaps load fine with no performance issues as long as there is no custom styling. I'm cautiously optimistic that this has something to do with how the styling (.json) is being applied in my version of portal.

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WillHughes
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Perfect! Thanks

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JeffreyThompson2
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I was able to use @ChelseaRozek solution to import into Enterprise version 10.9.1, but I needed to use the Classic Map Viewer. There doesn't appear to be a way to save a single layer in the New Map Viewer.

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DavidColey
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We too had a difficult time with modified vector tile display in our ArcGIS Online org when it was at the 10.5.x equivalent, so much so that I left it alone for some time. 

We have since moved fully to the Enterprise and are at 10.7.1 and the workflows mentioned here do work and we now have a modified style of the Light Gray Reference layer (although not the new WGS84 style) that I can use as reference layer on top of my own vector tile base layers.  It works well in the portal map viewer and in Web Application Builder's (2.13) basemap gallery widget.

HOWEVER, the modified Light Gray Reference layer (that I am calling our Local Gray Canvas Reference layer) will not load as a layer into ArcGIS Pro at 2.4.2 without error.  Not sure why.  In my portal, the modified vector tile shows as coming from my https://myorg.net/portal/sharing/rest/content/... directory, but the source url of the modified tile layer still shows as coming from the esri source at https://basemaps.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World_Basemap_v2/VectorTileServer 

Don't have a workaround yet.  It kinda feels like a CORS issue.

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DavidColey
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This has since become a non-issue with the vector tile style editor available at 10.8