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ArcGISOnlineConnector

Connects to Esri ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS to manage ArcGIS items.

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Typical Uses

  • Managing datasets and supplementary files on ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS by uploading, downloading, publishing, sharing, and deleting files and folders
  • Transferring file contents into or out of an attribute in FME
  • Retrieving file and folder names, paths, links and other information from ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS for use elsewhere in a workspace
  • Retrieving or updating metadata

How does it work?

The ArcGISOnlineConnector uses either your ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS account credentials to perform various management tasks on Esri ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS:

Action Task

Delete

Delete an item from a user’s own ArcGIS Online content.

Download

Download a file or folder to an attribute, file, or folder from a user’s ArcGIS content or group they have access to.

Get Details

Get details for an item, including its metadata.xml file.

List

List the item details for the contents of a group, a user’s folder, a user’s root folder, or all of a user’s content.

Publish

Publish an existing ArcGIS item as a feature service. See Publishing below.

Set Details

Update the details for an item or overwrite its metadata.xml file.

Share

Change the sharing level of a user’s ArcGIS Online content item or share it to additional groups.

Update

Update the contents of an existing ArcGIS item and optionally specify a new title or tags.

Upload

Upload a file or attribute to a location in a user’s ArcGIS Content.

Once valid account credentials have been provided, you may browse to available content for the selected Action.

Publishing

The following ArcGIS item types are supported for publishing with this transformer:

  • Shapefile
  • CSV
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Feature Collection
  • GeoJSON
  • File Geodatabase
  • Scene Package
  • SQLite Geodatabase
  • Image Collection
  • Service Definition
  • Tile Package
  • Compact Tile Package
  • Vector Tile Package

CSV and Excel files will be analyzed and have some publishing parameters auto-generated for them, which are logged at the info level.

For CSV files, ArcGIS will attempt to classify the file as containing either coordinate data, address data, lookup data, or no location data.

If a CSV file is classified as having location data but ArcGIS cannot determine which fields contain this data, the ArcGISOnlineConnector will log a warning and publish the CSV file as though it does not contain any location data. The resulting feature service will be a table.

Usage Notes

  • This transformer cannot move or copy files between different locations. Consider using multiple connectors for these tasks, by downloading files/folders and re-uploading them to a new location.

  • Uploading data to ArcGIS is performed via synchronous multipart upload. Each file chunk is 20MB. The connector will upload these chunks consecutively. If a chunk upload fails, the connector will retry each upload up to five times.
  • Early termination of translations during Publish, Update, or Upload actions may result in malformed ArcGIS item entries. When publishing, a feature service may be created but any title or tags specified for it may not be honored. When updating or uploading, it is possible for the metadata to be uploaded before the file content has been uploaded.
  • The FeatureReader can access online ArcGIS content directly but does not download a local copy of the dataset.

Configuration

Input Ports

Output Ports

Parameters

Editing Transformer Parameters

Transformer parameters can be set by directly entering values, using expressions, or referencing other elements in the workspace such as attribute values or user parameters. Various editors and context menus are available to assist. To see what is available, click beside the applicable parameter.

For more information, see Transformer Parameter Menu Options.

Reference

Processing Behavior

Feature-Based

Feature Holding

No

Dependencies Esri Access
Aliases AGOLConnector ArcGISPortalConnector
History Released FME 2020.1

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