Data Management Tips in ArcGIS Online
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01-21-2016 10:59 PM
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JosephKerski
Like many of you, I frequently create Esri story maps and ArcGIS Online presentations for events, workshops, webinars, courses, and curricula. Then I often want to modify those story maps and presentations for a different purpose, but yet preserve the original version so people can still access it. The ArcGIS Online Assistant is the perfect tool for this. It can be used for copying web mapping applications such as story maps, ArcGIS Online maps, layers, scenes, and other items from one folder to another, or between organizations, or even to the same folder within an organization. It can also be used to view the underlying JSON for any item in ArcGIS Online or Portal, and to modify the URLs for services in web maps and registered applications.
Another very helpful feature about the ArcGIS Online Assistant is that it quickly lets you scroll through all of your content your organizational account. If you have a lot of content in your organization, saves a great deal of time over the standard method of going through each page of your standard “My Contents” zone in ArcGIS Online.
Note that the copying procedure does not copy all of your data that your web mapping applications may refer to, but just the application or presentation that points to them.
If you need even more functionality, look into the tools created by Geo Jobe. In the free version of their tools, there is a tool labeled "Copy Items" that acts like the AGO Assistant tool. Their tools also allow for a filter that can select multiple items at once. In the Pro/Portal version of their tools, you can "Clone Items", which not only copies the selected item, but also copies and rewires all the data and content that the selected item depends on. As noted above, the AGO Assistant does not do this, but Geo Jobe allows you to truly copy everything, including the source data.
For more information, see the GeoNet discussion on this topic, and for best practices and tools related to ArcGIS Online organizations, see the ArcGIS Organization Administration Wiki on GitHub.
Another very helpful feature about the ArcGIS Online Assistant is that it quickly lets you scroll through all of your content your organizational account. If you have a lot of content in your organization, saves a great deal of time over the standard method of going through each page of your standard “My Contents” zone in ArcGIS Online.
Note that the copying procedure does not copy all of your data that your web mapping applications may refer to, but just the application or presentation that points to them.
If you need even more functionality, look into the tools created by Geo Jobe. In the free version of their tools, there is a tool labeled "Copy Items" that acts like the AGO Assistant tool. Their tools also allow for a filter that can select multiple items at once. In the Pro/Portal version of their tools, you can "Clone Items", which not only copies the selected item, but also copies and rewires all the data and content that the selected item depends on. As noted above, the AGO Assistant does not do this, but Geo Jobe allows you to truly copy everything, including the source data.
For more information, see the GeoNet discussion on this topic, and for best practices and tools related to ArcGIS Online organizations, see the ArcGIS Organization Administration Wiki on GitHub.
After using the ArcGIS Online Assistant, I now have a copy of my original item in ArcGIS Online, which I can now rename and modify.
