How to add "Supported operations" to my ArcGIS Feature/Map Services

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03-28-2013 12:30 PM
JoshuaPowell
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We have been using the Javascript API for some time now and have made lots of progress. We are stuck on two things ... implementing the "Clip and Ship" functionality and the "Find" functionality. We want to accomplish what is displayed in those two AGOL samples. We have the code implemented and when using Esri's example services/layers everything works fine. However, when we load our layers in we noticed that they do not have the appropriate "Supported operations" and therefore do not seem to work with the code provided in the above stated examples.

So at this point it seems as if it's a matter of setting up our Layers appropriately within ArcGIS Desktop, then simply publishing them to AGOL ... but we don't know how to ... and cannot find documentation on doing this beyond what I've shared above.

For example this Map Service has both "Supported Operations" present (see the bottom of the page)

http://sampleserver4.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/HomelandSecurity/Incident_Data_Extraction...

How do we add the "Export Map" and the "Find" supported operations to our Map/Feature Services? Are we missing the documentation somewhere? Do we have to have an ArcGIS Server instance for these? Can this be accomplished with only AGOL?

UPDATE:

We noticed that in this post it said that "Find Task" is not a supported operation of AGOL feature services ... this is why we asked if this functionality was Server only.

http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/75119-Using-FindTask-with-ArcGIS-Online-Feature-Service
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RahulMetangale1
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Joshua,

Unfortunately you can publish only tiled map services and feature services over ArcGIS Online and feature services do not support find and export map operations.

Rahul
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JoshuaPowell
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Thanks for the clarification Rahul.

So now that we know we cannot do it with AGOL, then how do we get those on our layers and get the published out to the world. We desperately want to take advantage of those features.

- Do we need to server or something else?
- If we do need server, then are those operations added at the Desktop or the Server level?
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RahulMetangale1
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Joshua,

There are two options:
1. Use ArcGIS Server on cloud. ESRI provides ArcGIS Server on Amazon cloud
2. Host ArcGIS Server Standard or above in house.(Using Basic version you can not publish map services)

I hope this helps.

Rahul
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