Greetings,
I have two questions:
1. Is there a way to register an on-premises map service with AGOL in a way that each feature layer is individually added, so that they may be given individual tags?
2. How are organizations controlling which datasets are assigned to thematic categories within their site?
Background:
I've been tasked with setting up my agency's ArcGIS Open Data site. I'd like to know how other organizations organize their Open Data content so that it is "discoverable" and not too time-consuming to manage. I've published an Open Data service on our on-premises ArcGIS Server, registered the service with AGOL and added it as an item to our Open Data group, and in turn added that group to the Open Data site.
1. Now the datasets are showing up on the Open Data site (still Private while in development), but since the AGOL item is a "map image layer," each layer has the same tags - the ones provided for the service:
As you can see the feature layer description came through but the tags are service-level tags. I'd like to give each layer tags specific to that layer (we maintain these in a SQL Server database). I've experimented with registering individual feature layers from the open data service in AGOL but I'm worried that if the index of the layer changes when I republish the service that the connection may break, and then with 75+ layers to add this will be very time consuming. So, is there a way to register a service with AGOL in a way that each feature layer is individually added, so that they may be given individual tags?
2. I've created ten text widgets in the Open Data site, each with a link leading to a formatted url that queries the category name:
(Boundary is http://data.pdx.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets?q=boundary&sort_by=relevance)
So, how do I structure the tags, metadata, etc for the particular layers so that only the desired layers show up under a search of "boundary?"
Thanks,
Micah