About data packaging

Data packaging, a tool provided by Mobile Project Center, allows you to create mobile caches from mobile services and/or hosted feature services, so that the caches can be included into your project before provisioning into field devices.

Data packaging is mandatory of projects containing hosted feature services, and is recommended for projects with mobile services for the following reasons:

NoteNote:

Data packaging in Mobile Project Center is different from using the Create Mobile Cache tool provided by ArcGIS for Desktop:

  • Data packaging is a feature in Mobile Project Center that allows you to get data from mobile services and/or feature services, and include the data in your project. You need an ArcGIS Server to host mobile services and ArcGIS Online for organizations or Portal for ArcGIS to host feature services (see the Server workflow for details).
  • The Create Mobile Cache tool allows you to build a mobile cache directly from an ArcMap document, where you can then add a copy of the mobile cache to your mobile project in Mobile Project Center as an offline data source. In this case, real-time synchronization with the back-end database is not supported (see the Desktop workflow for details).
6/4/2013