ArcGISOnlineConnector

Accesses the Esri ArcGIS Online content stored by a user as a file storage service to upload, update, download, delete, or list information about items from a user's Esri ArcGIS Online content. It can also be used to change the sharing settings of an item or publish items as hosted feature layers.

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Typical Uses

  • Manage datasets and supplementary files on ArcGIS Online by uploading, downloading, and deleting files and folders
  • Transfer a file's contents into or out of an attribute in FME
  • Read downloaded ArcGIS Online data using the FeatureReader, or upload data written by the FeatureWriter to ArcGIS Online
  • Retrieve a user's file and folder names, paths, links and other information from ArcGIS Online to use elsewhere in a workspace.
  • Delete items or folders from a user's ArcGIS Online content
  • Download files or folders from either a user's own ArcGIS Online content or the content of a group they have access to
  • List information about items and folders in either a user's own ArcGIS Online content or the content of a group they have access to
  • Publish feature layers from valid items in a user's ArcGIS Online content
  • Share items in a user's ArcGIS Online content to additional groups or change an item's sharing level
  • Update the data files stored for existing items in a user's ArcGIS Online content
  • Upload a file to ArcGIS Online and add it to a user's content

How does it work?

The ArcGISOnlineConnector uses your ArcGIS Online account credentials (either via a previously defined FME web connection, or by setting up a new FME web connection right from the transformer) to access the file storage service.

Depending on your choice of actions, it will upload or download files, folders, and attributes; list information from the service; share items which already exist in the user’s ArcGIS Online content; publish items as feature layers; or delete items from the service. On Uploads, link attributes are added to the output features. On List actions, links and file/folder information are added as attributes.

Examples

Usage Notes

  • This transformer cannot be used to directly move or copy files between different ArcGIS Online user content folders or locations. However, multiple ArcGISOnlineConnectors can be used to accomplish these tasks.
  • Uploading data to ArcGIS Online is performed via synchronous multipart upload. Each file chunk is 20MB. The connector will upload these chunks consecutively and if a chunk upload fails, the connector will retry each upload up to five times.
  • Early termination of translations when performing publish/update/upload actions may result in malformed ArcGIS Online item entries. (When publishing, a feature service may be created but any title/tags specified for it may not be honored). (When updating/uploading, it is possible for the metadata to be uploaded before the file content has been uploaded).
  • The FeatureReader can access ArcGIS Online directly (without using the ArcGISOnlineConnector), however, a local copy of the dataset will not be created.

Configuration

Input Ports

Output Ports

Parameters

The remaining parameters available depend on the value of the Request > Action parameter. Parameters for each Action are detailed below.

Editing Transformer Parameters

Using a set of menu options, transformer parameters can be assigned by referencing other elements in the workspace. More advanced functions, such as an advanced editor and an arithmetic editor, are also available in some transformers. To access a menu of these options, click beside the applicable parameter. For more information, see Transformer Parameter Menu Options.

Defining Values

There are several ways to define a value for use in a Transformer. The simplest is to simply type in a value or string, which can include functions of various types such as attribute references, math and string functions, and workspace parameters. There are a number of tools and shortcuts that can assist in constructing values, generally available from the drop-down context menu adjacent to the value field.

Dialog Options - Tables

Transformers with table-style parameters have additional tools for populating and manipulating values.

Reference

Processing Behavior

Feature-Based

Feature Holding

No

Dependencies Esri Access
FME Licensing Level FME Base Edition and above
Aliases AGOLConnector
History Released FME 2020.1

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