Hi, I feel like I must be missing something. I am using a lot of public layers (USGS, HIFLD, etc), many of which the URL will periodically go out of date and change. I need a way to update the URL. There seems to be some tools created that are supposed to help with this, but I can't get them to work. Here are my steps:
1) the layers have been added as layers in "My Organization" and therefore have an organization URL (https://mycompany.maps.arcgis.com/)
I have tried:
2) click on the service and directly update the URL in the settings.
Outcome: this updates the URL, but when I look at the maps that are using the layer they all still have an error that says the layer cant be loaded.
And:
3) I tried to delete the organizational URL and re-created it.
4) with either 2 or 3 above, I then tried to open one of the maps where the layers were unavailable and went to "Settings" to attempt to use the “Update References” tool. In both cases, I hit the button and the dropdown doesn’t show anything. It finds no problem layers?
Am I using the tool incorrectly? Is there some sort of setting that I need to set somewhere for this to work?
My preference would be to change it in one place and have it change for the whole site (as in #2). My users have created hundreds of webmaps using these layers. I cannot go in and click on every single webmap and fix them. How do I do this? Does the GeoJobe application work for this? Is there a way to do it with REST or Python? Should I be setting the layers up in a different way?
Thank you for your help!
Lisa
