Publishing data in ArcGIS Enterprise

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I have a copy of this at CC

A checklist

  • Make an MXD.
    • Put the description and the disclaimer in Map Properties
    • Set the data frame projection to Web Mercator.
    • For Feature Services, create a label layer and a shape layer.
    • Symbolize your feature layers.
    • Label, but NOT WITH MAPLEX. MAPLEX will sort of work and then fail you when you least expect it, and then you'll have to start with a clean MXD. You can't switch.
      • Turn off fields that should not be exposed.
    • For Map Services, create a group for each zoom level supported, normally 10-19. (Use an existing map as a template.)
    • Don't put anything else in the MXD.
  • Publish to ArcGIS Server, using the service running on port 6443, for me that's https://ccgis.co.clatsop.or.us:6443/arcgis/ do I need admin/ at the end??
  • If you have already published this service, select the "overwrite" option. Then pick the name from the ensuing list.
    • Unless it fails in which case go into Portal and delete the services
    • and go into ArcGIS Service Manager and delete it there
    • and restart ArcMap and start over.
  • About this time I need to decide what services I am publishing. Jury still out. "Mapping" is not optional. "WFS" and "WMS" are. I never need "KML" so far. Turn it off.
  • For "Feature Access" normally I turn off all operations except Extract and Query.
  • For Map Services I normally build a cache and set the range to match the published service.
  • When you do the "Analyze" step you should ignore the warning about projection being different.
  • For Feature Service, ignore the warning about data drawing at all scales.
  • Otherwise, FIX YOUR ERRORS NOW. :-)

Map Image Service (cached tiles)

Pro's

  • Symbolization designed in ArcMap is preserved so not much to do in the client.
  • You will need to set up a separate group for each zoom level. This is incompatible with Feature Services so you need two MXD's to publish both Map and Feature Services.

Con's

  • Don't use Maplex. Since the tiles are built on the server it will do a terrible job at labels. You might want to use annotation instead of labels. (ick)
  • If you get the projection wrong, tiles will be unusable in a web map.
  • Bulky, lots of raster data.
  • When you zoom in you'll see the rasterization.


The service should be in Web Mercator (EPSG:3857) so that it's most compatible with other public map services (OSM, ESRI, Google, ...).

Sometimes this just happened but I don't know why. These days I put the source data into the ArcMap document, and then set the Data Frame to Web Mercator. I use the "WGS_1984_(ITRF00)_To_NAD_1983_HARN" transformation; this shows as the 3rd or 4th choice but the one I want (WGS #5) is not in the list. Instead it offers transformations for the Aleutian Islands etc. This one seems to be the best.

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