Latest Contributions by BillSchlatter

My organization has fairly strict standards for metadata, particularly for any data that will be available to the public.  We have some GIS layers stored in one of our initiatives (we have Hub premium, not just the open data portal) that we would like to associate with metadata that meets our organization's standards, which are based on the FGDC CSDGM.  However, whenever we upload these layers to the Hub storage, the metadata is automatically converted to ISO 13139 format and drops a number of fields from the metadata.  Of greatest concern to us is that attribute definitions aren't included, which we consider essential for anything that may be used by people outside our organization.  As a test, I tried uploading metadata in ISO 13139 format, and I got similar results.  The resulting metadata was cleaner than what had been converted from FGDC format (the converted-from-FGDC metadata had some fields, such as tags, included multiple times in the XML), but it still clipped off the attribute definitions.  Whether we upload in FGDC or ISO format, the metadata cannot be edited once in the Hub storage.  Clicking the Metadata button on the Item Description page opens a static page showing the metadata in a browser window instead of opening the metadata editor as expected.  Is there a way to have full control over the metadata associated with items in Hub initiatives, as there is with normal AGO items?  If so, how do I do it?  ... View more

I'm attempting to upload a few small, pretty straightforward layers to ArcGIS Online, with the intent of creating a Feature Layer View of each one.  These views will have some of their attributes hidden, then be added to my organization's Open Data Portal.  The problem is, the Create View Layer process keeps failing with the extremely unhelpful message, "Error: Unable to add feature service definition", as seen in the attachment.  This is a workflow I've used many times before without issue, and indeed, it's only happening for two of the three layers in the current batch.  The third one worked exactly as expected, and is currently in the Open Data Portal.  Further complicating things, my attempts to do an end-run around the issue are also meeting with failure.  I made a copy of the data with the attributes we want to hide removed, uploaded the layers, and the copied layers just simply don't appear in the Open Data Portal regardless of sharing settings.  These aren't complicated datasets - they have several hundred features at most, with 6-12 attributes, mainly short text fields.   Has anyone run into problems like these before?  Did you find any solutions?   ... View more

For context, my organization has Hub Premium, and we also have an Open Data Portal dating back to before Premium existed. Whenever someone who is currently logged into ArcGIS Online through a public account tries to view either our Open Data Portal or our Premium initiative, they get either a 404 error or a plain white screen.  The console shows errors reading "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'indexOf' of undefined".  I haven't been able to test whether the same issue happens for people logged in with accounts from another organization.  If they log out of ArcGIS Online, they can access our Hub sites without issue.   Has anyone else experienced this kind of issue? Have you found a workaround?  We're trying to promote our Open Data Portal, and it's not an insignificant problem if people who already use ArcGIS Online get blocked out of accessing the open data.   For reference, here is our Open Data Portal: SEMCOG (Southeast Michigan Council of Governments) Open Data  ... View more