Make public content more discoverable

To increase the visibility of your public content, consider making it available on the ArcGIS Hub homepage. This site is one way for users to sign in to their hub site, and also showcases all "open data" for others to use. Public content appears on the ArcGIS 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 (see section below). The Hub homepage also provides members of your team or organization with the ability to search for internal and external content all in one place.

Share content as part of hub.arcgis.com

To make your content more discoverable, the ArcGIS Online subscription that your organization uses to access ArcGIS Hub must be enabled for Open data. Groups can then be designated as Open data. Groups that are made public with public content must also be set as Open data groups to share that content to hub.arcigs.com.

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To enable groups for open data, you must have the make groups available to Open Data assigned to your user role. For more information, see Configure roles and privileges for ArcGIS Hub.

For ideas and ways to get started, browse the Hub Gallery selection of open data sites or take a look at the open data template.

  1. In ArcGIS Online, go to Groups and select the group of interest.
  2. On the Settings tab, turn on 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.

Learn how hub.arcgis.com differs from adding a search bar

ArcGIS Hub sites have a catalog that is defined by groups shared to the site, such as the content group and groups added via the Groups manager. However, searches on hub.arcgis.com, will return all public (open data) content shared by you, teams across your organization, and content belonging to other hub sites around the world. The hub.arcgis.com/search includes more filters than regular hub sites. For instance, Region and Sector are metadata fields set at the organization level.

If you're sharing a lot of content as part of a site or initiative, it's highly recommended that you add a search bar in a prominent location on your site homepage. You can also enable global navigation which adds a compact bar that includes a search bar to the top of a site. Visitors who search using either of these search bars will only see search results for content belonging to that site's catalog.