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jaredcarse
Participant

The 2017.1 Beta has the ability to read attachments from an ArcGIS online feature service, but it does not have the ability to write attachments. It would be nice to have that functionality.

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  • October 19, 2017

Is this available as yet? My trial has expired so I can't check.


laurawatsafe
Safer
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Hi @peterx, This hasn't been done yet. We'll make sure to update this Idea when this does make it into a beta.

 


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  • October 20, 2017
Thanks Laura - it's certainly something that we're looking to do and would prefer a native FME approach vs Python SDK vs generic REST.

 

 


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  • December 21, 2017

Is this available as yet? My trial has expired so I can't check.


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  • December 21, 2017

This is a test - my comment isn't being written.


fmelizard
Safer
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  • Safer
  • April 26, 2018

Hi @jaredcarse & @peterx, thank you both for expressing interesting in writing attachments to ArcGIS Online Feature Service!

 

I was wondering if you'd be able to share your use cases for this functionality and the functionality that you would be looking for (insert, update, delete)? Additionally, what is the minimum required features that you would like to be able to upload and use as an attachment?

  • May 29, 2018

This would be really handy since we have hundreds of generated pdf-drawings which we would like to write as attachments to Agol features.


jochgem
Contributor
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  • Contributor
  • June 28, 2018
Hi there!

 

 

I am in search for this functionality too! For migrating data from one application to ArcGIS Online I would need to disclose the images.

 

 

Does anyone have an idea how to do this? Perhaps using the PythonCaller? Any suggestions or scripts are welcome!

 

 


jochgem
Contributor
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  • Contributor
  • June 28, 2018
Hi @TiaAtSafe.

 

 

I have a use case for you. I am working on an assignment to migrate data from one application to the ArcGIS Online Feature Service. I am mostly in search for a way to migrate the images as well.

 

 

Would be great if we could work together on this topic or if you could help us out.

 

 

Best, Jochgem

 


surbhi
Contributor
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  • Contributor
  • June 28, 2018
I am interested in this functionality as well. Would be really useful.

 

 


thaverkort
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  • Contributor
  • December 13, 2018

My use case is that I'm reading data from AGOL with attachments, manipulating it to derive new attributes, then write back to new datasets (again, with attachments) in AGOL.


mgg_beca
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  • Contributor
  • February 28, 2019

My use case is that I'm reading data from ArcGIS Enterprise with attachments, manipulating it to derive new attributes, then write back to new datasets (again, with attachments) in ArcGIS Enterprise .

Additionally would be interested in potentially automating the backup and restore of data using FME - must be able to preserve attachments.

Would be awesome to have attachments handled using blob attributes - and if there are multiple they are just a list - and in the writer you define the attachment attribute - then the writer handles setting up the required relationships etc.


kasiaf
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  • Contributor
  • April 15, 2019

Is that functionality available in 2019 release?


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  • May 9, 2019

Is Safe still working on uploading Attachments to AGOL?


runneals
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  • Contributor
  • May 15, 2019

Take a look here for a script that appends a file geodatabase to ArcGIS Online. I believe it should also work with attachments. Requires ArcGIS Pro 2.3 to run in its current state.


mark2atsafe
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No, I'm afraid it's not been implemented yet. I've updated the product managers so that they know the vote count here is quite high and that users are asking about this. Hopefully we'll get it implemented very shortly.

mark2atsafe
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fyi: when querying this with Safe the reference number is FMEENGINE-40499


trentatsafe
Safer
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Hello!

 

 

A template workspace can be found on FME Hub here https://hub.safe.com/publishers/safe-lab/templates/attachmentwriter

 

 

It is designed to give a starting workspace that has the Python scripts set up to allow you to Insert or Delete Attachments from a Feature Service hosted on ArcGIS Online or Portal. As noted by @runneals this requires the ArcGIS API for Python, which can be used via ArcGIS Pro or downloaded externally here: https://developers.arcgis.com/python/guide/install-and-set-up/

  • November 10, 2020

This is critical for me. I have a lot of inspection data with attached photos. Whenever I migrate data between platforms dev to prod, old prod to new prod, prod to agol. It would be great to run this in fme.


cjd111
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  • Contributor
  • February 25, 2021

Also had a need to add attachments, so created this custom transformer;

https://hub.safe.com/publishers/cjd111/transformers/agolattachmentadder


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Also Portal please. Is this ever going to work with FME Cloud given inability to install ArcGIS Pro?


  • November 18, 2021

Would be really important to write .pdf and nice to write .zip as well. Both for AGOL and Portal.


trevorb
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  • Contributor
  • June 27, 2022

Any update on whether this is being considered and/or where its at in the pipeline of being implemented? This would be very helpful for my organization.


rmurphy
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  • Contributor
  • March 29, 2023

Thanks for this transformer. I'm getting the following error message. Any thoughts? Thanks!

HTTP: The URL '[my_feature_service_id]/2/3/addAttachment?token=[my_token]..&f=json' could not be parsed


rmurphy
Contributor
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  • Contributor
  • March 29, 2023

Has the ability to write attachments to an AGOL feature service been implemented yet (i.e. FMEENGINE-40499)?


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