Trying to set preferredTimeReference in sddraft file when creating a feature service

JoeHershman

Hi,

I have a script that automates generating feature services. It all works great except I cannot figure out how to set one property. The feature service has a setting for the preferred time zone for display

Which also shows up in the layer definition if it is set

 "preferredTimeReference": {
  "timeZone": "Eastern Standard Time",
  "respectsDaylightSaving": true
 },

I cannot figure out what the name of this setting should be in the sddraft properties. I have tried many variations and it always comes in null. I assume it is setting of another property set along with everything else, but not matter what I try, for example:

<PropertySetProperty xsi:type="typens:PropertySetProperty">
	<Key>preferredTimezoneID</Key>
	<Value xsi:type="xs:string">UTC</Value>
</PropertySetProperty>
<PropertySetProperty xsi:type="typens:PropertySetProperty">
	<Key>preferredTimezoneIDDaylightSavingTime</Key>
	<Value xsi:type="xs:string">true</Value>
</PropertySetProperty>

It comes in null in my feature layer definition.

Does anyone know what the correct setting names are?

We are stuck at Pro 3.3 for now, so I cannot use the new features added in 3.4 that would allow me to set via properties.

As a suggestion, it will be really nice if pro allowed you to save out an sddraft, like you could in ArcMap

Thanks,
-Joe

Clubdebambos

Hi @JoeHershman,

Here is what I extracted from the .sddraft file

<PropertySetProperty xsi:type='typens:PropertySetProperty'>
	<Key>preferredTimeZoneRespectsDayLightSavingTime</Key>
	<Value xsi:type='xs:string'>true</Value>
</PropertySetProperty>
<PropertySetProperty xsi:type='typens:PropertySetProperty'>
	<Key>preferredTimeZoneID</Key>
	<Value xsi:type='xs:string'>GMT Standard Time</Value>
</PropertySetProperty>

Hope that helps.

All the best,

Glen

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JoeHershman

@Clubdebambos thanks for the reply. Unfortunately those are still not working. I am wondering if they changed something past 3.3 when they modified arcpy.

My sddraft looks like this

<PropertySetProperty xsi:type="typens:PropertySetProperty">
	<Key>preferredTimeZoneRespectsDayLightSavingTime</Key>
	<Value xsi:type="xs:string">true</Value>
</PropertySetProperty>
<PropertySetProperty xsi:type="typens:PropertySetProperty">
	<Key>preferredTimeZoneID</Key>
	<Value xsi:type="xs:string">UTC</Value>
</PropertySetProperty>

But still

 "datesInUnknownTimezone": false,
 "dateFieldsTimeReference": {
  "timeZone": "UTC",
  "respectsDaylightSaving": false
 },
 "preferredTimeReference": null,
 "types": [

Just to confirm these properties are part of the property set that goes with the FeatureServer as below

<SVCExtension xsi:type="typens:SVCExtension">
	<Enabled>true</Enabled>
	<Info xsi:type="typens:PropertySet">
		<PropertyArray xsi:type="typens:ArrayOfPropertySetProperty">
			<PropertySetProperty xsi:type="typens:PropertySetProperty">
				<Key>WebEnabled</Key>
				<Value xsi:type="xs:string">true</Value>
			</PropertySetProperty>
			<PropertySetProperty xsi:type="typens:PropertySetProperty">
				<Key>WebCapabilities</Key>
				<Value xsi:type="xs:string">Create,Sync,Query,Update,Delete,Uploads</Value>
			</PropertySetProperty>
		</PropertyArray>
	</Info>
	<Props xsi:type="typens:PropertySet">
		<PropertyArray xsi:type="typens:ArrayOfPropertySetProperty">
			<PropertySetProperty xsi:type="typens:PropertySetProperty">
				<Key>maxRecordCount</Key>
				<Value xsi:type="xs:string">2000</Value>
			</PropertySetProperty>
			<PropertySetProperty xsi:type="typens:PropertySetProperty">
				<Key>enableZDefaults</Key>
				<Value xsi:type="xs:string">true</Value>
			</PropertySetProperty>
			<PropertySetProperty xsi:type="typens:PropertySetProperty">
				<Key>zDefaultValue</Key>
				<Value xsi:type="xs:string">0</Value>
			</PropertySetProperty>
			<PropertySetProperty xsi:type="typens:PropertySetProperty">
				<Key>editorTrackingTimeZoneID</Key>
				<Value xsi:type="xs:string">UTC</Value>
			</PropertySetProperty>
			<PropertySetProperty xsi:type="typens:PropertySetProperty">
				<Key>editorTrackingRespectsDayLightSavingTime</Key>
				<Value xsi:type="xs:string">true</Value>
			</PropertySetProperty>
			<PropertySetProperty xsi:type="typens:PropertySetProperty">
				<Key>editorTrackingTimeInUTC</Key>
				<Value xsi:type="xs:string">true</Value>
			</PropertySetProperty>
			<!-- Properties removed for brevity -->
			<PropertySetProperty xsi:type="typens:PropertySetProperty">
				<Key>preferredTimeZoneRespectsDayLightSavingTime</Key>
				<Value xsi:type="xs:string">true</Value>
			</PropertySetProperty>
			<PropertySetProperty xsi:type="typens:PropertySetProperty">
				<Key>preferredTimeZoneID</Key>
				<Value xsi:type="xs:string">UTC</Value>
			</PropertySetProperty>
		</PropertyArray>
	</Props>
	<TypeName>FeatureServer</TypeName>
</SVCExtension>

I have successfully added and modified other properties, so it makes me feel like I am not getting an exact match on this property name

Thanks,
-Joe

Clubdebambos

Ah that's a shame. Another option is to use the ArcGIS API for Python after the Feature Service is published and update necessary properties.

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JoeHershman

That is a thought, I am already using arcgis to get the item ids of the newly created portal items, might as well throw in some json manipulation to make it worth my while 😀

Thanks,
-Joe

JoeHershman

This seemed easy enough. But from what I can see I cannot modify the feature service json with python when the service is on a federated server. This only seems possible on a hosted service. Really annoying, this seems like it should be a simple thing to do

Thanks,
-Joe