Manage portal connections

In ArcGIS AllSource, a portal is an ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise site that allows you to share your work and access content shared by others. To share or access portal content, you must add a connection in ArcGIS AllSource by providing a URL to the portal.

Connections can be added, set to active, removed, and edited on the Portals page in ArcGIS AllSource. Additionally, you can switch the active portal using the Sign In menu in the upper right corner of ArcGIS AllSource.

Note:

If you do not have a portal connection, the Sign In menu is not available. In this case, click the Project tab on the ribbon and click the Portals page to add connections and sign in to the portal directly or using a web browser.

Add a portal connection

To add a portal connection, complete the following steps:

1. Click the Project tab and click Portals.

   You can also access the Portals tab from the Manage Portals link on the sign in menu.

2. Click Add Portal.
3. Provide the URL for the portal on the Add Portal dialog box and click OK.
   • ArcGIS Enterprise—https://webadaptorhost.domain.com/webadaptorname
   • ArcGIS Online—https://www.arcgis.com
   • ArcGIS Online organization—https://yourorg.maps.arcgis.com

4. Optionally, sign in to the portal.
   1. Click the Options button or right-click the portal and click Sign in.
   2. Provide your username and password.

   You can also sign in to a portal using a web browser.

5. Right-click the URL and click Set As Active Portal to make the new connection the active portal.

Note:

If you connect to your ArcGIS Online organization's URL (for example, https://yourorg.maps.arcgis.com) and the administrator of your organization changes the organization's short name (in the same example, yourorg), you must edit the portal connection to match the new short name to share content and consume portal items.

Switch active portals

You can add and sign in to multiple portals, but you can only set one portal as active at a time in each instance of ArcGIS AllSource. An active portal is an ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise site you designate as your current organizational workspace in ArcGIS AllSource. For example, when you share a GIS resource such as a web layer or web map, it is shared to the active portal. Additionally, content from the active portal appears on the Portals tab of the Catalog pane.

By default, ArcGIS Online is the active portal. You can share to or access content from different portals by changing which portal is active.

To switch between active portals, do one of the following:

• Click the Project tab on the ribbon and click the Portals page. A green check mark indicates the active portal. Click the Options button or right-click another portal and click Set As Active Portal.
• Click the Sign In menu , click Switch Active Portal, and click the URL from the portal connection list.

Refresh portal connections

Except for the active portal, which displays its current connection status, each portal listed on the Portals page displays its last known connection status. Click the Options button or right-click a portal and click Test Availability to check the portal's current connection status. Alternatively, click Refresh to update the status of all the portal connections.

Remove and edit portal connections

To remove a portal connection, click the Options button or right-click the portal and click Remove Portal Connection. If you licensed ArcGIS AllSource as a named user, you cannot remove the connection to your licensing portal. A key indicates your licensing portal.

Note:

If the URL you are removing is the active portal, you will be automatically signed out and disconnected.

To edit a portal connection, click the Options button or right-click the portal and click Edit Portal Connection. When you finish editing the portal connection information, click OK to save the changes.

Note:

The options to remove and edit portal connections are not available for the licensing portal.