Latest Contributions by MatthewStull1

Hi Dan, You can setup your Web Connection to AGOL within the Writer settings.  I'm not an expert in FME, but that seems to be the best way to do it. I'd be willing to bet that you're having a permissions issue.  So many problems with AGOL and ArcGIS Server have to do with permissions. Matt ... View more

Hi Dan, I don't think I can help you with the Portal connection.  You'll have to contact FME support if you can't get it to work.  We don't use Portal, we just use regular AGOL.  I do agree with you that it's a permissions issue.  I think that once you get that worked out it should work for you.  I have attached a screenshot of what mine looks like (using FME Desktop version 2018). Matt ... View more

Hi Daniel, Connecting to AGOL is easy.  When you create the Writer in FME, you will pick the AGOL Writer.  It should help you create the connection file to AGOL when you put in your AGOL username and password.  Please note that if you are not using at least version 2019.2 that the AGOL connection will timeout after several months and you'll have to reset it. The process I had does it in one workspace/script.  It's really simple, the Reader reads the data and then just pushes it over to the Writer.  You set the truncate setting in the Writer itself.  That's it. Definitely use FME Server, it makes it very easy to manage and schedule jobs and get the email notifications. Matt ... View more

Hi Daniel, Thank you for picking us this thread again.  Here is some more information on what I have found and what I do with FME: I do NOT recommend publishing a standalone table with ArcGIS Server.  First of all, as I said in the first post, you can't publish a table to ArcGIS Server by itself; it has to have a spatial layer (feature class) with it.  That didn't work out for me so I switched over and used the FME software. At my office, we have the desktop and server versions of FME.  We created an FME script/workspace that just pushes our data from a table in SQL Server Geodatabase (SDE) directly to a table in ArcGIS Online.  In this process, FME truncates (it's not deleted) the table in ArcGIS Online and then rewrites the whole table from SQL Server to it.  If you do this, make sure you don't create anything in ArcGIS Online first.  FME Server allows you to run this job at a scheduled time.  FME Server is also set up to send me an email each night to say whether the job ran successfully or not.  I have about a dozen jobs that run on FME Server each night.  If you don't have FME Server, you can still have FME run jobs with the desktop version.  We have someone here at my agency that does this.  I believe they just use Windows Scheduler to do it. So in summary, use FME, it's WAY easier to manage than trying to do it with the ESRI tools. Anyway, if you want to see any samples that I have, just let me know and I will send them over. Matt ... View more

I'll 2nd this idea, it would be very helpful!!  Having to redo symbols, labels, etc.. is a big time drain. ... View more

I'll 2nd this idea, it would be very helpful!!  Having to redo symbols, labels, etc.. is a big time drain. ... View more

Being able to rename items in ArcGIS Online from the main Contents page would be super helpful and time saving.  I was recently dealing with an Emergency Operations Center event and it would have helped us get things done faster with this capability! ... View more

This would be very helpful, especially when a list is needed for single sign-on setups.  For example, we are implementing single sign-on between AGOL and Cityworks.  Having all the AGOL users in a spreadsheet would really help us in getting these users into Cityworks. ... View more

This would be very helpful, especially when a list is needed for single sign-on setups.  For example, we are implementing single sign-on between AGOL and Cityworks.  Having all the AGOL users in a spreadsheet would really help us in getting these users into Cityworks. ... View more

Yes!  This would be very helpful.  Also for feature layers to. ... View more