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What are network folder Data Stores used for?

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08-23-2024 02:55 PM
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StefanCoe1
Emerging Contributor

I am struggling to understand how Folder Data Stores for Portal/Server are useful. As far as I an tell, In Pro, I cannot publish a Feature Layer that references data that resides in the folder (e.g. from a Geodatabase or Shapefile), it must be published as a hosted layer and stored on the ArcGIS Data Store. 

From Portal, I think there is a way to import all data at once from the folder as hosted services, but this seems little more than a small convenience. I think you can reference Geoprocessing scripts when publishing GP tools, which if fine.

What am I missing? 

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BlakeTerhune
MVP Regular Contributor

We store our raster images on a network file storage drive. The folder data store allows us to serve the imagery directly from a mosaic dataset in a file geodatabase on the network drive.

StefanCoe1
Emerging Contributor

Thanks- good to know! 

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