Publish Oriented Imagery from referenced folder or a private link

[DominicReed]

Hi there,

I’m trying to publish a large collection of oriented imagery to our Enterprise Portal. My initial plan was to register a local folder with the server as a datastore, then reference the imagery from that folder when publishing — without enabling the option to add images as attachments.

However, when I attempt to publish, I receive an error saying a web-accessible link is required. I don’t want to host the imagery externally—my goal is to keep it in the local folder.

Is there a way to achieve this, or any possible workaround?

[RandallRebello · Accepted solution]

Hi Dominic, 

You can achieve what you want to do by creating a virtual folder in IIS (if that is your web service provider you are using.) I am sure other web adaptors will have a similar function.  

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/networking/create-virtual-directory-fo...

Once you have a virtual folder mapped and it can be accessed with an http address you can then add your data to the Oriented Imagery dataset using that path. 

hope this helps. 

Randall

[MR-QE]

Did the virtual folder work for you? Could you publish your OI from a referenced folder?

[CyrilDynkaMrvaPVK]

Hello, we are facing the same issue. 

We had a IIS Virtual Directory created with both HTTP and HTTPS communication. The widget returns the error: Unable to load https://portal.domain.com/portal/sharing/proxy?https://virtualdirectory.domain.com/gispic/ph.jpg. The URL request in the browser console returns: 500 Internal Server Error over both HTTP and HTTPS. We have ArcGIS Enterprise 11.1 and the OI widget Classic in ExBuilder. The same behavior occurs with the new OI widget in ArcGIS Online.

Image from the URL https://virtualdirectory.domain.com/gispic/ph.jpg is accessible in browser tab and displays as Multimedia inside the Pop-up window in MapViewer successfully.

We have a registered enhancement on support ENH-000159025 Provide more options for storing imagery data that can be utilized in Oriented Imagery other than Cloud Object Stores and Utilizing Attachments in Hosted Feature Layer. The enhancement is In Product plan.

We hope that it will support IIS Virtual Directory or Microsoft SharePoint storage.