Configure site settings

Every site and initiative site has its own settings and capabilities that administrators and core team members can use to customize how a site or initiative site works.

To get started, initiative or site team members can Sign in to ArcGIS Hub and click Sites on the Overview page to view a list of sites. If your organization has a license to ArcGIS Hub premium, initiative sites are listed under Initiatives.

Tip:

You can also edit a site when viewing it in a browser. Be sure you're signed in to ArcGIS Hub and look for the edit button to the left of your site.

Provide site name and summary

Your site's or initiative site's name and summary are visible in search results. If your site is shared publicly, the name and summary are also visible through searches queried using other search engines.

1. Click Settings for your site on the side panel.
2. In the About section, enter a name for your site in the Name field or change an existing name to something new.

   Note:

   The Name appears in the site's second drop-down menu on the edit navigation bar. It's also the name used to identify your site or initiative site in the list accessed on the Overview page. The option to show the site name in the header can be configured by following steps provided in Brand a site with header and theme options.

3. Provide some background information about your site in the Summary field.
4. Click Save.

   The name and summary that you provide correspond to the name and summary of the Site Application item in ArcGIS Online.

Configure site URL

A site's URL is the web address people use to access your site. When you create a new site, a default URL is generated for you based on the name you provided in the Name field. You can, however, change your URL manually by following these steps.

Note:

The name you provide appears at the beginning of your organization's standard site URL. For example, mysitename-hub.arcgis.com. There is a maximum 64-character limit.

1. Click Settings for your site in the side panel.
2. Click Domain.
3. In the Subdomin field, leave hub.arcgis.com. The opendata.arcgis.com subdomin is for users who created open data sites using ArcGIS Online prior to the release of ArcGIS Hub.
4. In the Site URL field, enter the name of your site.
The URL Preview shows you what your new URL will look like.
5. Click the About Settings for your site in the side panel.
6. Provide an optional favicon (the small image, such as a logo, that will appear in the URL) by pasting an image URL in the Custom Favicon field.
7. Click Save.

Configure site URL with a custom domain

While you can configure the default URL of a site by modifying its subdomain, the domain for your site remains hub.arcgis.com. To modify this domain using your organization's custom domain, follow these steps precisely to ensure that your custom domain is configured correctly.

1. Before you get started, ensure that your site is saved by clicking Save in the edit navigation bar.
2. Open site settings for custom domains.
3. Type your domain in the field provided in step two.
4. Click Apply if your CNAME was validated.
5. To provide an optional favicon, click the About drop-down menu and click to toggle on Custom Favicon.
6. Provide an image URL in the field.
7. Click Save.

Note:

The entries for configuring your domain name system (DNS) vary depending on where your domain name is registered. Check with your registrar for details. Changes to domain registrations can take up to a day to function, so be aware of the potential delay. In the meantime, you can use your configured hub.arcgis.com site URL.

For a custom URL with a subdomain

For a custom URL with a subdomain, such as data.example.org, you need to create a CNAME record. The CNAME should point to hub.arcgis.com.

For a custom URL without a subdomain

For a custom URL using a root domain, such as example.org, a CNAME cannot be used directly. You must first create a domain with a subdomain (www.example.com) with a CNAME as above. Then configure your registrar to provide a redirect to the root domain (example.org). Many, but not all, registrars can provide this type of redirection, so check with your registrar for details.

1. Create a site with a custom domain of www.example.org.
2. Set up www.example.org as a CNAME to hub.arcgis.com.
3. Configure your DNS provider to redirect example.com to www.example.com.

Use a custom basemap

You can configure your site to use a custom basemap. A site's basemap is displayed on a site's content preview page. This means that any item shared to your site that has a preview page (datasets and feature layers) includes the basemap you choose so that people can view and explore spatial data.By default, your Map Viewer gallery contains a set of basemaps from Esri. Your organization can also configure maps in Map Viewer.

Note:

All custom basemaps must have HTTPS connections enabled on the service.

1. In edit mode, open the site's side panel and click Settings.
2. Click Set Map under the About section.
3. Use the drop-down menu to select the basemap you want to use. If you don't see the basemap you want, make sure that the basemap you want to use belongs to your organization’s Basemap Gallery. You may need the help of an administrator if you don't have the correct privileges.

   Tip:

   For more information on site mapping capabilities, see 3D web scenes, vector tile basemaps, and more coming to ArcGIS Hub

Add Google Analytics

You can add Google Analytics to your site by typing your Tracking ID. This automatically pushes analytics to your Google Analytics account.

1. Find your Google Analytics Tracking ID in your Google Analytics account.
2. Open a site in edit mode.
3. Click Settings on the side panel.
4. Under the Domain section, click to toggle on Google Analytics.
5. Paste your Google Analytics Tracking ID into the Google Analytics field.
6. Click Save.

Find events in Google Analytics

The Google Analytics interface provides several ways to discover how users are interacting with your site:

• Most popular pages—On the Google Analytics sidebar under Behavior, click Site Content and click All Pages.

• Most popular datasets—On the All Pages page, click advanced next to the icons on the side of the page. Type /datasets/ in the text box, making the whole filter Include Page Containing /datasets/. Click apply. The results include the dataset IDs. To find the titles, copy the URL and open it in your browser.

• Most popular downloads—On the sidebar under Behavior, click Events and click Top Events. In the resulting table, click dataset. From here, you can explore the most popular downloads by type. The results include the dataset IDs. To find the titles, append the ID to your site URL with the following format: [yoursite].com/datasets/[append-ID].

• Search queries—On the sidebar under Behavior, click Site Search and click Search Terms.

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At this time, Google Analytics does not return metrics when users access data via APIs.

HTTPS support

HTTPS ensures that your organization's data is encrypted during communication over the internet. By default, all sites direct to HTTP. All sites also support access over HTTPS if configured manually. The ArcGIS Online setting of allowing access to the organization through HTTPS only is not linked to ArcGIS Hub at this time.

Enforce HTTPS

Setting your site to enforce HTTPS automatically redirects any requests over HTTP to HTTPS. Enable HTTPS enforcement to ensure that your organization's data is encrypted during communication over the internet.

1. In edit mode, open the site's side panel and click Settings.
2. Under the Domain section, click the Enforce HTTPS toggle to turn on or off HTTPS enforcement.
3. Click Save. HTTPS enforcement for the site may take up to an hour to take effect.

Set interactions

Choose capabilities to help people use your site.

1. In edit mode for a site, open the side panel.
2. Click Settings on the side panel.
3. Click Interactions.
4. Click the toggle button to enable or disable the following interactions: Global Navigation, App Page, Document iFrames.
5. Click Save.

Set capabilities for the dataset preview page

Choose to enable or disable local projects and an API Explorer.

1. In edit mode for a site, open the side panel.
2. Click Settings.
3. Click Data.
4. Click the toggle button to enable or disable the following capabilities: Local Projections and API Explorer.
5. Click Save.

Enable beta features

Turn on the following beta capabilities to see how upcoming features will on your sites.

1. In edit mode for a site, open the side panel.
2. Click Settings on the side panel.
3. Click Beta.
4. Click the toggle button to enable or disable Private Item Views.
5. Click Save.