Publish a private feature service but leave the map service component public

[tigerwoulds]

I have published point dataset as a Feature Service to ArcGIS Enterprise 1071.

This creates a map service and feature service. In Portal, I can change the security of these individually > Map service shared to Everyone and Feature Service shared to a group. 

But it still appears that the Feature Service is publicly accessible and editable. Am I doing something wrong here?

[John_Spence · Accepted solution]

If I recall correctly, you can't do that.  It is an all or nothing proposition.  I would probably go the route of not publishing as a feature service for what you want public and running a separate service that that has feature service enabled for the private one.  Yes, you'll get 3 services from it, but you'll get what you are looking for.  As a side note, feature services are lighter weight than a map service and would probably do better.  Just turn off what you don't want folks to do on the public side.

[tigerwoulds]

Great tips - thank you!

[SaraDilbert]

Is creating multiple services of the same data still the best solution if you want to be able to share a non-hosted feature layer publicly, but make it editable only by certain users/groups? 

We're trying to accomplish this goal in our organization, but don't want to have the services hosted (we have the data in a registered SQL EGDB), and therefore can't use the hosted feature service views option. I'm trying to verify whether or not creating multiple services of the same data is still the only way to accomplish this. Thanks for any insight!

[John_Spence]

Good afternoon Sara,

For non-hosted feature services, yes...making multiple services would be the best approach as there is no way to guard the front gates for a public service. This allows you to configure the services and their functions differently for viewers vs. editors, etc.

Hope that helps.