Hosted feature layers and tables provide users with access to the majority of the data in your organization. As such, there are a large number of settings available to help you control how these layers are used.
You can alter certain settings on a hosted feature layer or hosted table, while others are set on individual layers in the hosted feature layer. Some are inherited by hosted feature layer views, and some can be set independently.
See the following pages for information and instructions to manage the settings for hosted tables, hosted feature layers, and the layers they contain:
- Manage editing—Settings on the hosted feature layer, hosted feature layer view, or hosted table affect who can edit the data and the edits they can make, as does how you share the layer and the privileges granted to the users who have access to the layer.
- Allow data exports—Control whether the people who access the hosted feature layer or hosted table on the ArcGIS Online website can export data from it.
- Configure and manage attachments—You can allow editors to attach images and other files to individual features or rows in a sublayer in a hosted feature layer or hosted table. These attachments can be hidden or made available in hosted feature layer views.
- Overwrite the layer—You can replace all the data in a hosted feature layer or hosted table with the contents of a supported file type.
- Add and update features—Use an updated file to add features to or update features in an existing hosted feature layer.
- Add and manage indexes—Indexes can decrease the amount of time it takes to query the data. They are most useful if the data that you index is not edited often or at all.
- Optimize drawing of complex lines and polygons—If the hosted feature layer includes line or polygon layers that contain a large number of vertices that are often viewed at small or medium scales, you can optimize these layers to improve drawing times in web clients.
- Rename a layer—Change the display name of hosted feature layer, hosted feature layer view, and hosted table items and the layers and tables inside them.
- Configure time settings—For any sublayer in a hosted feature layer that records different information for the same location based on a date and time, you can enable time settings. This allows those who use the layer in a map to configure map time settings and visualize patterns and trends that emerge as the data changes over time.
- Change the default z-value—You can alter the default z-value for each sublayer in a hosted feature layer from the sublayer's item page.
Note:
When you share the item with a shared update group, group members can manage many of the settings described in the pages listed above.
Changing any of the settings or details described above alters the hosted layer's schema. The Schema updated date property that is present on the Overview and Data tabs of the hosted feature layer or hosted table item page updates when the schema changes. Adding data to the feature layer doesn't alter the layer's schema, but it does edit the layer's contents, which updates the Data updated date property.