You can add content to a project from the active portal. You can browse, search, filter, and sort portal content, and add it to maps and scenes as you do with content stored locally or in other locations. You can also browse and search your portal for groups that share content related to themes of interest. If you have access to ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World through the active portal, you can work with curated, authoritative content from that collection.
Portal content includes items owned by you and items owned by others that are made available to you through sharing. These items may have been created in ArcGIS AllSource and shared to the web. Alternatively, they may have been created online with tools in ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise.
The following content collections are available through the active portal connection in ArcGIS AllSource:
- My Content
- My Favorites
- My Groups
- My Organization
- ArcGIS Online
or ArcGIS Enterprise - Living Atlas
You can access these collections from the following in ArcGIS AllSource:
- The Portal tab in the Catalog pane
- The Contents pane when the catalog view is active
- The browse dialog box when you add data to a map or scene
Learn more about searching the active portal for content and groups
My Content
When you are signed in, you can access maps, layers, tools, and other items stored in My Content in your ArcGIS organization or ArcGIS public account. Items in My Content are owned by you. By default, they are accessible only to you and administrators of your organization.
When My Content is selected, items in this collection appear in the contents list. These items can be browsed, searched, filtered, and sorted. The Show/Hide Folders button 
allows you to show or hide your My Content folder structure.
If you are using ArcGIS AllSource and are not signed in to a portal, the My Content button is not available.
My Favorites
When you are signed in, you can access portal items that you have marked as favorites in the active portal. These may be either items that you own or other portal items accessible to you.
When My Favorites is selected, items in this collection appear. These items can be browsed, searched, filtered, and sorted.
You add portal items to and remove them from your favorites in your portal. Changes you make to portal favorites are reflected immediately in ArcGIS AllSource.
If you are not signed in, the My Favorites button is not available. If you marked an item owned by someone else as a portal favorite and the owner deletes the item or unshares it, the item no longer appears in your favorites list.
Note:
Portal favorites are a separate collection from your ArcGIS AllSource project favorites.
My Groups
When you are signed in, you can access groups to which you belong, as well as content shared with those groups. Groups are not necessarily confined within an ArcGIS organization. A group may include members from different ArcGIS organizations and users of ArcGIS public accounts. Groups may also be open to public view and public membership. The visibility and membership properties of a group are set by its owner.
When My Groups is selected, the groups to which you belong appear when you click the Groups button. These groups can be browsed and searched. When you click the Content button, the content shared with these groups appears. Content items can be browsed, searched, filtered, and sorted.
When the Content button is selected, all group content appears in a single list—it is not organized by group. To see the items shared to a particular group, click the Groups button and double-click the group.
Tip:
After browsing to a group's items, click the Back button 
to display the groups.
You join or leave groups from your portal. Changes to your group memberships are reflected immediately in ArcGIS AllSource.
If you are not signed in, the My Groups button is not available.
My Organization
When you are signed in, you can access items shared with your ArcGIS organization. You can browse and search for groups that are visible to your organization. You can access the content of these groups if you belong to them.
When My Organization is selected, and the Content button is selected, the items below appear. These items can be browsed, searched, filtered, and sorted.
- Items in My Content
- Items owned by other members of your ArcGIS organization that are shared with the organization or shared with everyone
When My Organization is selected, and the Groups button is selected, the groups below appear. These groups can be browsed and searched.
- Groups that you own in the organization
- Groups owned by other members of your organization that the owner has made visible to people in the organization or to everyone
When the Groups button is selected, you can double-click a group to display its items. If you are a member of the group, all the items shared with the group are listed. If you are not a member, only those items that are also shared with the organization or with everyone are listed.
Tip:
After browsing to a group's items, click the Back button to display the groups.
If you are not signed in, or if you are signed in with an ArcGIS public account, the My Organization button is not available.
ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise
When you are signed in, you can access items available from the active portal: either an ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise portal. You can browse and search for groups that are available to you from the active portal. You can access the content of these groups if you belong to them or if the group and its content are public.
Content and groups in other portal collections (such as My Content and My Organization) are also accessible from the ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise collection. However, unlike those collections, no items or groups appear until you perform a search.
Your access to portal content depends on whether the active portal is ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise.
Note:
In general, only items that can be used in ArcGIS AllSource are available from the active portal. However, some items may appear with the generic online item icon 
, which indicates that the portal item isn't recognized by AllSource and can't be used at this time.
ArcGIS Online
If you are signed in to ArcGIS AllSource using the credentials of an ArcGIS Online organization, the active portal is ArcGIS Online. This is also the active portal if you sign in with an ArcGIS public account. (This is possible when ArcGIS AllSource is authorized with a Single Use or Concurrent Use license type.)
When ArcGIS Online is selected, and the Content button is selected, the following items can be returned by a search. These items can be browsed, filtered, and sorted.
- Items from My Content
- Items from My Groups
- Items from My Organization
- Items owned by members of other ArcGIS Online organizations, or by users of ArcGIS public accounts, that are shared with everyone
- Items from ArcGIS Living Atlas
When ArcGIS Online is selected, and the Groups button is selected, the following groups can be returned by a search:
- Groups that appear in My Groups
- Groups that appear in My Organization
- Groups owned by members of other ArcGIS Online organizations, or by users of ArcGIS public accounts, that the group owner has made visible to everyone
When the Groups button is selected, you can double-click a group to display its items. If you are a member of the group, all the items shared with the group are listed. If you are not a member, only those items that are also shared with everyone are listed.
Tip:
After browsing to a group's items, click the Back button to display the groups.
If you are not signed in, the ArcGIS Online and Living Atlas collections are enabled, but no other portal collections are available. In this situation, only items that are shared with everyone, or groups that are visible to everyone, are accessible in the ArcGIS Online collection.
ArcGIS Enterprise
If you are signed in to ArcGIS AllSource using the credentials of an ArcGIS Enterprise organization, the active portal is ArcGIS Enterprise.
When ArcGIS Enterprise is selected, and the Content button is selected, the following items can be returned by a search. These items can be browsed, filtered, and sorted.
- Items from My Content
- Items from My Groups
- Items from My Organization
- Items associated with ArcGIS Online utility services if your organization is configured to use them
- Items from ArcGIS Living Atlas if your organization is configured to use it
When ArcGIS Enterprise is selected, and the Groups button is selected, the following groups can be returned by a search:
- Groups that appear in My Groups
- Groups that appear in My Organization
When the Groups button is selected, you can double-click a group to display its items. If you are a member of the group, all the items shared with the group are listed. If you are not a member, only those items that are also shared with everyone are listed.
Tip:
After browsing to a group's items, click the Back button to display the groups.
If you are not signed in, the ArcGIS Enterprise collection is enabled, but no other collections are available. In this situation, content searches return only items owned by members of your organization that are shared with everyone. Group searches return only groups owned by members of your organization that the group owner has made visible to everyone.
ArcGIS Living Atlas
When you are signed in, you can access items stored in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. This content is available when the active portal is ArcGIS Online. A curated selection of this content is available when the active portal is ArcGIS Enterprise unless your portal administrator has made it unavailable.
When Living Atlas is selected, items in this collection appear. These items can be browsed, searched, filtered, and sorted.
If you are not signed in and the active portal is ArcGIS Online, the Living Atlas collection is available and all public ArcGIS Living Atlas content is accessible. If you are not signed in and the active portal is ArcGIS Enterprise, the collection is not available.
Note:
ArcGIS Living Atlas includes public content, subscriber content, and premium content. In an ArcGIS Online organization, public and subscriber content is available to all members; access to premium content is controlled by the organization administrator.
If you are signed in to ArcGIS Online with an ArcGIS public account, all public content is accessible.
In an ArcGIS Enterprise organization, access to a curated selection of public, subscriber, and premium content is controlled by the organization administrator. If your organization administrator has made ArcGIS Living Atlas content unavailable, the Living Atlas button is also unavailable.