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Problem with ArcGISFeatureServcie Writer and globalids

  • October 6, 2025
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mgg_beca
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Hi there,

I tried to write some data to a ArcGIS Portal feature service using the new writer.  It skipped my feature as globalid was NULL, missing or empty:

So i fell back to the old writer and this writes features fine. It sees that globalids are read-only and ignores them, along with the other ArcGIS server managed fields:

I imported the same layer from the feature service using the writer - import layer approach, and fed the same data into both of them in the same workspace.  One works, one doesn’t.

Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Marc

Best answer by mgg_beca

Thanks to ​@rjlockie for reminding me about the globlid related settings in the advanced writer parameters. changing these to yes fixed the issue:

Hope this helps someone else in the future.

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mgg_beca
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  • October 6, 2025

Thanks to ​@rjlockie for reminding me about the globlid related settings in the advanced writer parameters. changing these to yes fixed the issue:

Hope this helps someone else in the future.


mgrupp
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  • October 15, 2025

I have the same issue. When turning these advanced globalID settings on, fme gives the following error: 

|ERROR |ArcGISFeatureServiceWriter: Writer configured to use Global IDs, but this is not supported by the Feature Service

 

I have checked the feature layer and Supports ApplyEdits With Global Ids is set to true. What am I missing??