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Adding items

Select the appropriate section for information on adding your content to ArcGIS Online:

Uploading maps, layers, and tools

Referencing services

Best practices for tagging your items

Modifying items you’ve added

Uploading maps, layers, and tools

To upload maps, layers, and tools:

1. Make sure you are signed in to your ArcGIS Online account.
2. Open your My Content workspace, and click Add Item .
3. The Add Item pop-up window displays.

   

4. Select The item is: an item on my computer.
5. Click Browse, and navigate to the location of the map, layer, or tool file on your computer.
6. By default, ArcGIS Online uses the file name of the item. Enter a new title if you want.
7. Enter tags, separated by commas.
8. Alternatively, click the Choose from your tags link to open the list of tags you’ve used previously, and select the tags you want to use for this item.

   

9. Click Add Item.

Once your item is uploaded, it appears in your content workspace and you can edit the properties and share it.

Referencing services

1. Make sure you are signed in to your ArcGIS Online account.
2. Open your My Content workspace, and click Add Item .
3. The Add Item pop-up window displays.

   

4. Select The item is: an ArcGIS Server Web service.
5. Enter the REST URL of the service, for example, http://myServer/ArcGIS/rest/services/manang/MapServer. NOTE: To find the REST URL of a service you want to share in ArcGIS Online, open the Services Directory page for your ArcGIS Server, http://<server name>/<ArcGIS Server instance name>/rest/services, (for example, http://myServer/ArcGIS/rest/services), and browse to the service you want to share. You can then copy the URL from the browser’s address bar.
6. By default, ArcGIS Online uses the service name. Enter a new title if you want.
7. Enter tags, separated by commas.
8. Alternatively, click the Choose from your tags link to open list of tags you’ve used previously and select the tags you want to use for this item.

   

9. Click Add Item.

Once your service is referenced in ArcGIS Online, it appears in your content workspace and you can edit the properties and share it.

Best practices for tagging your items

Tags are words or short phrases that describe your item. The most useful tags are keywords that users might enter in a search string when looking for your item and are not already contained in the title (titles are queried by search engines, including ArcGIS Online, so it is not necessary to repeat title terms in your tags). For example, it you have a map documented with the title “Denver hydrology”, you might want to tag it with the following terms: water, stormwater, wastewater, Colorado. Remember to separate terms with commas. Federal lands is considered one tag while Federal, land is considered two tags.

Modifying items you’ve added

After you’ve added an item to ArcGIS Online, you can make the following modifications: edit the property fields, change the sharing properties (the setting is private by default), delete it from the system, move it to a different folder on your workspace, and, if it is a file, update the version.

You make these changes through the item properties page. From your content workspace, click the title of the item whose properties you want to modify.

Editing an item

Click the edit button to open the edit mode for the item properties page.

You can edit the text for the following fields: title (1), tags (2), credits (3), summary (4), description (5), and access and use constraints (6). To change the extent, click the Set Extent button (7) and either enter numerical values or use the map navigation tools to redraw the extent. TIP: Draw extent uses the extent of the box you draw on the Extent screen, not the extent of the map. When you have finished making edits, click the Save button (8).

Updating a file

Click the Update button to update a map, layer, or tool file with a new version from your computer.

Browse to the updated file on your computer (1), choose whether you want to preserve the item fields you have on ArcGIS Online (which you might have edited) or upload the fields from the item file (2), then click the Update Item button (3).

Adding or updating a thumbnail

You can add a thumbnail to your item properties or you can update an existing thumbnail. To add or update a thumbnail:

1. In My Content, select the item with the thumbnail you want to add or modify.
2. Click Edit.
3. Click ‘Click thumbnail to change image’.
4. Browse to find an image on your desktop.
5. Click OK.
6. Click Save to see your new thumbnail.

TIPS:

• The recommended image size is 200 pixels wide by 133 pixels high. ArcGIS Online will resize your image to fit these dimensions. For best resolution, add an image of size 200x133.
• Acceptable image formats are: PNG, GIF, and JPEG.
• The maximum file size for an image is 1 MB.