Your ArcGIS Hub public content can be more visible if it is available on the ArcGIS Hub home page (hub.arcgis.com). You can sign in to your hub site from the Hub home page, which also showcases all open data for others to use.
The Hub home page also provides members of your groups or organization with the ability to search for internal and external content all in one place. Public content appears on the Hub home page if it's shared to at least one public group on a public hub site. The group must be set as an Open data group.
Learn how the ArcGIS Hub home page differs from a site search bar
Hub sites have a catalog that can be configured to include collections and groups, such as groups containing content to share on the site. Visitors can search for content that has been added to the catalog. Every item has sharing controls, allowing you to choose who can view and edit the content. Ensure that site content, including all apps and datasets, has a public sharing level if you want to share it with the public on a public site. Learn more about access and sharing.
Searches on hub.arcgis.com return all public (open data) content shared by you, groups across your organization, and content belonging to other hub sites around the world. Additionally, the hub.arcgis.com/search includes more filters than regular hub sites.
If you share a large amount of content as part of a site, add a search bar in a prominent location on your site home page to increase discovery of content. You can also enable global navigation to add a compact bar that includes a search bar at the top of the site. Visitors who search using either of these search bars will see only search results for content belonging to the site's catalog.
Enable open data for your organization and groups
The ArcGIS Online subscription that your organization uses to access Hub must first be enabled for open data. You can then designate groups as open data. Groups that are made public with public content must also be set as open data groups to share that content on the Hub home page.
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To enable groups for open data, you must have the Make groups available to Open data privilege assigned to your user role. For more information, refer to Configure roles and privileges and Privileges granted to roles.
To enable open data for your organization and groups, complete the following steps:
- Sign in to your organization's ArcGIS Online home page.
- If needed, follow the steps provided to Enable open data for your organization.
- On your organization's ArcGIS Online home page, select the Groups tab and select the group of interest.
- On the Settings tab, enable the Open data setting. Content added to this group will be shared to hub.arcgis.com.
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If you want to add groups to a hub site and those groups are outside of the organization, the group must be designated as an Open data group.
For ideas and ways to get started, browse the Hub Gallery selection of open data sites.