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Hey,

I am mega confused with something that I thought would be relatively simple. I have a Survey123 feature layer in ArcGIS Online that automatically places survey points at 0 lat 0 long (west coast of Africa). What I would like to do is read the Survey layer into FME, geocode the data via an address attribute, and then write back the geometry updates to the layer without altering the attribute table at all. I can do all of that fine except for the final Write/update operation.

I have confirmed that the layer in AGOL is editable and allows for Updates (attributes and geometry). I have the correct AGOL permissions to do these edits. In the parameters for my AGOL Writer, I have the Layer settings as: Update, Use Existing, Update Spatial Column = Yes. The operation completes successfully, but then when I check AGOL it appears that the layer’s geometry has disappeared. The table attributes are there, but no geometry is present.

I can also see that AGOL recognizes some change to the data since my credentials show up in the Editor/EditDate attributes on AGOL.

What am I missing here? Is there a setting on AGOL or FME that I need to enable/disable?

ESRI AGOL Writer Settings

 

Hi ​@smithgk 

I think you have that part set up correctly. An example that I can give is I read in the layer (in your case the survey 123 layer)….I make an update to three fields (watershed, municipality) and then I only pass those updated fields to the writer (just me being paranoid of overwriting other fields lol).
Key thing here is the Feature Operation is set to “Update”, Type Handling to “Use Existing” and I have Update Spatial Columns to “No”. In your case set that to “Yes” b/c you are updating geometry. In my case it is just an attribute update. 
Hope that helps!
 

 

Hi ​@smithgk 

I think you have that part set up correctly. An example that I can give is I read in the layer (in your case the survey 123 layer)….I make an update to three fields (watershed, municipality) and then I only pass those updated fields to the writer (just me being paranoid of overwriting other fields lol).
Key thing here is the Feature Operation is set to “Update”, Type Handling to “Use Existing” and I have Update Spatial Columns to “No”. In your case set that to “Yes” b/c you are updating geometry. In my case it is just an attribute update. 
Hope that helps!
 

 

Thanks for the response! That is exactly what I have configured:

Everything seems to work just fine, except the changes don’t show up in AGOL. The geometry just seems to disappear in AGOL even though everything works fine in FME

🤔This is point data? The geometry type is set to “arcgisonline_point”? Have you tried to write out the data to a test layer in another format, filegdb or geojson?

🤔This is point data? The geometry type is set to “arcgisonline_point”? Have you tried to write out the data to a test layer in another format, filegdb or geojson?

Indeed, the geometry is set to arcgisonline_point (tried changing to _multipoint and it gave me an error) and I have successfully written the data to a local FGDB.

Hi ​@smithgk Well then...running out of tricks….

 

Have you tried Overwriting the existing service and uploading as geodatabase? With this option all records have to be uploaded each time. or you will loose stuff but shouldn’t loose the feature IDs which will otherwise break your Survey 123.
 

 

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