Editor settings for hosted feature services
When you publish a hosted feature service to your portal, you can choose whether the features can be edited, what types of edits are allowed, and who can update and delete features.
Accessing editor settings
To access the editor settings for hosted feature services, follow these steps:
- Sign in to your portal website as either the service owner or a portal administrator.
- Open the item details for the feature service.
- Click the Edit button.
- Scroll down to view and modify the editor settings, which are in the Properties section of the page.
Enabling editing on the service
To enable editing, follow the steps above and check Enable editing and allow editors to:. Then choose one of the allowed editing levels.
- Add, update, and delete features gives editors the most privileges of the three choices. Consequently, this setting requires the most trust of your editors to respect each others' edits.
- Update feature attributes only is useful when you want editors to enter attribute information without changing any feature geometry. For example, you might have a set of observation towers whose locations should not be allowed to change, but whose attributes may be updated regularly.
- Add features only is useful if you want users to be able to report something to you but not delete or update existing features.
If you want to also enable sync on your feature service, you must prepare the data before checking Enable Sync. For instructions, see Enabling a hosted feature service for offline mapping.
Tracking edits and restricting control to those who created a feature
For information on configuring a hosted feature service to track edits and restrict access to the service, see Enabling editor tracking on a hosted feature service and Enabling ownership-based access control on a hosted feature service.