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Creating URLs

Content items, search results, and groups can be accessed directly by a URL. For example, the URL http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/item.html?id=10189d5ffbce4ef48f5bcc0661cfaff9 opens to the World Imagery Map Service published by ESRI. Anybody can open the URL to a public item or group, including people who are not signed in to ArcGIS Online. Only group members can open the URL to a private group or to an item that's shared with that group, and only owners can open URLs to private items.

Item URL

To see the URL of an item:

  1. Open its properties page.
  2. The URL appears in the Web browser address bar.
  3. You can copy and paste the URL and distribute it, for example, in an email or a blog.

Search result URL

To create a URL of search results:

  1. Start with the ArcGIS Online site: http://www.arcgisonline.com
  2. Add a reference to the pathname of the file: /home/search.html?
  3. Add your query and query type as q=<search string>&t=<content or group>, for example: q=streets&t=content

In this example, your complete URL is http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/search.html?q=streets&t=content

Group URL

You can create a URL of a group page, a group Content tab, or a group Members tab.

Group page

To create a URL of a group page:

  1. Start with the ArcGIS Online site, http://www.arcgisonline.com
  2. Add a reference to the pathname of the file, /home/group.html?
  3. Add the owner and group name as owner=<owner name>&title=<group name>, for example: owner=esri&title=ESRI%20Maps%20and%20Data

In this example, your complete group page URL is http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/group.html?owner=esri&title=ESRI%20Maps%20and%20Data

Group Content tab

To open a group to the Content tab instead of the default description:

  1. Append &tab=content to your group URL.

In this example, your complete group Content tab URL is http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/group.html?owner=esri&title=ESRI%20Maps%20and%20Data&tab=content

Group Members tab

To open a group to the Members tab:

  1. Append &tab=members to your group page URL.

In this example, your complete group Members tab URL is http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/group.html?owner=esri&title=ESRI%20Maps%20and%20Data&tab=members