Portal for ArcGIS 10.5.1 and 10.5 include changes and improved functionality in the portal website. For a list of issues fixed at 10.5.1, see the 10.5.1 Issues Addressed List. For a list of issues fixed at 10.5, see the 10.5 Issues Addressed List.
Review the deprecation notice to determine if your hardware and software components are still compatible with version 10.5 or 10.5.1 and to see a list of functionality that has been deprecated. To review which earlier ArcGIS product versions are compatible with Portal for ArcGIS 10.5 or 10.5.1, see Portal compatibility with earlier versions of ArcGIS.
Distributed collaboration
With distributed collaboration, you can connect and distribute your GIS across a network of portals. ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5.1 supports distributed collaborations with ArcGIS Online. For additional details, see about distributed collaboration.
Improvements for hosted layers
- When publishing CSV files as hosted feature layers, you can now specify the time zone of your date and time data. The specified time zone is used to mitigate the offset introduced when converting your date and time data to Universal Time Coordinated (UTC).
- You can add a CSV file to your portal and publish it as a table layer. This is useful if you want to share nonspatial attributes. You can also add or drag the CSV file into the map viewer. If the file does not contain x, y coordinates or addresses, a table layer will be added to the map.
- You can view and edit related records in the map viewer for feature layers that have related records.
- You can add and view attached files or photos to hosted table layers or the attribute tables of feature layers.
- When deleting files from My Content that are the source for a hosted layer, the files cannot be deleted until the dependent hosted layer is deleted. For example, if you upload a zipped shapefile and publish a hosted feature layer from it, you cannot delete the zipped shapefile from My Content until you delete the hosted feature layer. However, if you do not need the source file anymore (for example, you don't intend to ever overwrite the hosted feature layer published from the zipped shapefile), you can delete the source file from the Settings tab on the file's item page. When deleting here, you receive a message listing all dependent hosted layers, but you can proceed with deleting the file.
- Editable hosted feature layers have a new option to allow users to add features but not view them or any other features in the layer. This is useful when you want the public to contribute information but not view publicly sourced information until you've had a chance to review it.
- You can create a custom expression written in the Arcade scripting language when you change styles on feature layers in the map viewer.
- When you publish a hosted feature layer from a feature collection, you can provide a unique name for the hosted feature layer that is different from the source feature collection's name.
New in the scene viewer
You can now add point cloud scene layers and vector tile layers to the scene viewer.
New 3D symbology options are available in the scene viewer for point scene layers.
New analysis tools
The following standard feature analysis tools have been added to the map viewer:
- Join Features—Allows you to transfer attributes from one layer or table to another based on spatial and attribute relationships.
- Find Outliers—Determines if there are any statistically significant outliers in the spatial pattern of your data.
- Geocode Locations from Table—Provide a table or file containing addresses to this tool, and it geocodes the locations and produces a comma-separated values file, an Excel spreadsheet, or a hosted feature layer containing those locations. You can use these outputs in analysis in your portal, or download and use them in analysis in other products.
Improved directions and routing
As an alternative to generating routes using the current time, you now have the option of specifying a start time for the route. Directions also include the arrival and departure time at stops as well as the typical travel time.
You can draw a line across a route to specify barriers that represent temporary restrictions. When you generate directions, the resulting routes will not use streets that intersect the line barriers. This is useful when you want to ensure that certain streets are not considered when finding routes. For example, you may want to avoid road closures or crowds resulting from events such as marathons, protests, or concerts at a nearby stadium.
Changes in Living Atlas of the World content
If your portal is configured to access Living Atlas content, you will have access to additional content with ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5.1, including vector tile layers and web maps. Vector tile layers generally draw more rapidly than raster-based tile layers, so you can improve drawing performance in your maps by using vector tile layers as basemaps.
The following new layers and maps are available in 10.5.1:
| Content type | Item type | Item names |
|---|---|---|
Default | Web maps | Dark Gray Canvas, Imagery Hybrid, Light Gray Canvas, Navigation, Terrain with Labels, Topographic, Streets, Streets (Night), Streets (with Relief), USA Congressional Districts |
Vector tile layers | Dark Gray Canvas, Dark Gray Canvas Base, Dark Gray Canvas Reference, Hybrid Reference Layer, Light Gray Canvas, Light Gray Canvas Base, Light Gray Canvas Reference, World Navigation Map, World Street Map, World Street Map (with Relief), World Street Map (Night), World Terrain with Labels, World Topographic Map | |
Feature layers | USA 115th Congressional Districts, USA Bureau of Land Management Lands, USA Critical Habitat, USA Federal Lands, USA Fish and Wildlife Service Lands, USA Forest Service Lands, USA Historic Sites, USA National Park Service Lands, USA Native Lands, USA Protected Areas | |
Subscriber | Imagery layers | USA Protected Areas - GAP Status 1-4, USA Protected Areas - GAP Status 1, USA Protected Areas - GAP Status 2, USA Protected Areas - GAP Status 3, USA Protected Areas - GAP Status 4, USA Protected From Land Cover Conversion |
Be aware that the life cycle of Living Atlas content is independent of ArcGIS Enterprise. Therefore, Living Atlas content can be placed in mature support status or, on rare occasions, retired regardless of what ArcGIS Enterprise release you have deployed. When content is in mature support, you can still access it; however, you should begin using alternate content, as content in mature support will not be updated and could be retired at some point.
At the time of the ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5.1 release, the content listed in the following table has entered mature support. You can use the ID provided to find the replacement item. Use the search in the portal website, and type id:<ID>, where <ID> is the ID of the item you want to find in the portal.
| Content type | Item type | Item now in mature support and ID | Replacement item and ID |
|---|---|---|---|
Default | Web maps | World Hydro Reference Overlay f7c73101a09c44058f8f029eefd37bd6 | Esri Hydro Reference Overlay 9f86716d941c4410b0b406d911754b2c |
Subscriber | Map image layers, feature layers | USA All Federal Lands 5e9b864a22804a279a46e21f95cc16c7 | USA Federal Lands ab96297df6814fbf961f486342fd3aaf |
USA BLM Lands 3f0115428de74d76b9286edd980e5a31 | USA Bureau of Land Management Lands 369b864ec5184359bea0b173a1a1e0af | ||
USA Critical Habitat 1e06849e4c024ed5b58deabf92e325f8 | USA Critical Habitat 2fca597731bb4fe0b15c86b5c2fba879 | ||
USA Critical Habitat 2014 6c454427f00b4511ba751fb4ff45d5dc | USA Critical Habitat Final bad5c810721c4d0c94cfb93a18119c47 | ||
USA Native American Lands de4bc92eba964f80bf575cdd4984c840 | USA Native Lands 2e246890764a4737a3dcec4f94f9e774 | ||
USA NPS Lands 41f4461cf66d4dd2a3d0c6c4a24230a0 | USA National Park Service Lands f949e75b24f546b4b9fb732518d55f56 | ||
USA USFS Lands 2e2b3034118c4ae08a507f4e9f622600 | USA Forest Service Lands 24bdeb50481e4d65b7c33168608b8be6 | ||
USA USFWS Lands 55c1f615560b4ff59e71be4ca4e8d97e | USA Fish and Wildlife Service Lands 128bd2d5912349e6b1cc169ab385bc9c | ||
Imagery layers | USA All Federal Lands f720ceb965074b158df5963c5f2f59fb | USA Federal Lands 986e0b86c8e447549aaecbed728538f0 | |
USA BLM Lands d11ad6f79ae34769b77083ab10e9eda6 | USA Bureau of Land Management Lands dc3d8c3cc3b64af484723edc0a1f0343 | ||
USA Critical Habitat b347554a974443ae9a02446eb23e3eb9 | USA Critical Habitat Final bad5c810721c4d0c94cfb93a18119c47 | ||
USA Critical Habitat Final 2014 a652da5313894a8e941da9e1d8012e35 | USA Critical Habitat Final bad5c810721c4d0c94cfb93a18119c47 | ||
USA Critical Habitat Proposed 2014 8f53acec5cab4b3785787fbe8a14dfe7 | USA Critical Habitat Proposed 6c97249021544bbabd37cf9f10da35a5 | ||
USA Critical Habitat American Crocodile 058023e1f0b84fe3bddea8f18b35126c | USA Critical Habitat American Crocodile 3aab34b2125c40289a34e95ce7579fa5 | ||
USA Critical Habitat Atlantic Salmon 19440323a072409fa5483f390e8b1316 | USA Critical Habitat Atlantic Salmon c1c11b18bb984e32909212a4f2ba6b84 | ||
USA Critical Habitat Bull Trout 3e520ae1b4d5426880c9362952dd54e1 | USA Critical Habitat Bull Trout 5c2b8e01623f42bcb14ed4c5416aab0a | ||
USA Critical Habitat California Condor 84addae967b84d83bfb936b685c87933 | USA Critical Habitat California Condor 10c647dde1dc4a5489f085883edb737d | ||
USA Critical Habitat Chinook Salmon e210827e16124607afc8e5066b13e912 | USA Critical Habitat Chinook Salmon 57eb024e0def4661a892fad9d9f15826 | ||
USA Critical Habitat Chum Salmon fee2b157e4a74fff930ed98c4c0be28a | USA Critical Habitat Chum Salmon d507a20f574b4ef5a73a51988f0a9501 | ||
USA Critical Habitat Coho Salmon 356527f5ba75437bad56bb2497f32382 | USA Critical Habitat Coho Salmon b30be1819f27461c990d92b3f5564a3a | ||
USA Critical Habitat Delta Smelt e829c0227bc34e2ca94a8872760bab0f | USA Critical Habitat Delta Smelt aa684fb0de27450b9fdc101619555835 | ||
USA Critical Habitat Desert Tortoise 143aa9c6d8314d78889f8cf15fc4bf95 | USA Critical Habitat Desert Tortoise 22611d8f80cc4ef2b5df586fc229c9e2 | ||
USA Critical Habitat Marbled Murrelet c20bf39d808548138fabdec54ba4abb0 | USA Critical Habitat Marbled Murrelet c8d339aa8e474487b37e5ce8670f7861 | ||
USA Critical Habitat Mexican Spotted Owl c5e30b8e7a6846ecb773b57dc1ba91cf | USA Critical Habitat Mexican Spotted Owl 92dacca7ff124f9b90d8332d011b3066 | ||
USA Critical Habitat Northern Spotted Owl 4bdee3f06bc245eba3cee77b9970035c | USA Critical Habitat Northern Spotted Owl 4a253427744548c492cf41a0165adc30 | ||
USA Critical Habitat Peninsular Bighorn Sheep 83ab36461b264371a9c6afc51befaf2f | USA Critical Habitat Peninsular Bighorn Sheep 88752eb9c6c34522800b633bee1197eb | ||
USA Critical Habitat Sockeye Salmon 3798343628814a3a88de08c6354ce221 | USA Critical Habitat Sockeye Salmon 8315db7099164ae4936851cec2a92594 | ||
USA Critical Habitat West Indian Manatee, 3b47038fc63f4ddb8f8fc0dac8aefd29 | USA Critical Habitat West Indian Manatee, 6e8111040d4149fd8d85c249dc2b835a | ||
USA Historic Sites 923feaa3202942a3b9471047980e3b2c | USA Historic Sites 900afae6414e47808be5c88cf885b44e | ||
USA Native American Lands 2a428664cc254ff7bc313e45006da522 | USA Native Lands 0a422d345f3644b298f084cd381e8519 | ||
USA NPS Lands 0e5611694ca44a6f8869c1609310037d | USA National Park Service Lands d6980f980e3f48b0acf5bcca2716fdae | ||
USA Protected Areas 0e5611694ca44a6f8869c1609310037d | USA Protected Areas 13b8c063bb0d4b30a89737605b81b9e2 | ||
USA Unprotected Areas 062cb8e5f4bd4573998426b4bcb1f689 | USA Unprotected Areas 55c4ba03344446f495d2b974a5f6c510 | ||
USA USFS Lands 89fcf9daf16e48ca9777cbf88cf2b93b | USA Forest Service Lands dc08afd31d724323a67ec4194ea3cde1 | ||
USA USFWS Lands 57d68fbd9ba947d48700102145e4ae1d | USA Fish and Wildlife Service Lands bacf1761961047b5ae56300efa7891c3 |
The following content has been retired at the time of the ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5.1 release.
| Retired item and ID | Replacement item and ID | Type of content |
|---|---|---|
National Water Model (10 Day Forecast), 725bdde85e084708949ccb749991cbc8 | National Water Model (10 Day Forecast), f43c154ef3b9421bbda14bc17f9e98d2 | map image layer (default content) |
See Living Atlas content life cycles and updates for instructions on how to replace a mature support or retired item in your existing app or web map.
Changes in app templates
The Story Map Cascade configurable app is available in Portal for ArcGIS 10.5.1.
By default, a My Stories item is available in Portal for ArcGIS 10.5.1 that you can use to access the My Stories app.
Two new configuration options are available to customize web app templates you create: basemaps, which lets template users add a drop-down list of Esri basemaps to their app, and conditional, which allows template users to hide or display options based on template conditions.
The Finder and Find, Edit, Filter configurable app templates have been retired.
New functionality in Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS
You now can add custom widgets to your portal and use them in the builder environment when you create an app.
In addition, the following widgets have been added or improved in 10.5.1. For more information, see Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS help.
- A new Extent Navigate widget is available for navigating the map to its previous or next extent.
- A new Legend (3D) widget is available for viewing legend information in 3D apps.
- The Add Data widget now supports adding layers from groups and local files including shapefiles, CSV, GPX, and GeoJSON.
- The Directions widget now supports predefined start and end stops and displays the default travel modes when the travel mode URL is not specifically configured.
- The Smart Editor widget now hides the cache layer from the app so it no longer shows on the Layer List and Legend widgets.
- The Near Me and District Lookup widgets have new options for advanced search and using a pushpin button to set location.
- The symbol picker in the Draw widget now supports custom images as point symbols.
- Two new tools are available in the Analysis widget: Join Features and Join Outliers.
- Plan Routes, Connect Origins To Destinations, and Find Nearest tools in the Analysis widget now have a configurable option to include Route Layer as a result layer.
- The Layer List widget now supports showing or hiding labels for a layer.
- You can now configure the labels for the Tasks and Results tabs in the Query widget.
- Layer List (3D) now supports displaying layer hierarchy and terrain layers.
- The Basemap Gallery widget allows you to import basemaps from a group and also has a new option to always synchronize with the basemap gallery setting of the organization.
- Unsupported basemaps with different tiling schemas from the current basemap are now excluded from the Basemap Gallery widget.
- When running a query against a related table, all the related features are now highlighted on the map and listed in the Query panel. Further, you can change the symbol to highlight the query result differently on the map and allow users to export query results.
- You can now add markers to the features and locations you are interested in or remove markers from them.
- In a pop-up, related records now use the pop-up title defined in the map viewer as the default display name instead of the display name defined in the service. Optionally, you can change the title to a different field name.
- Label configurations in a layer are now honored in the app.
- Feature sets—for example a query result, a GP result, or a selection set—can now be saved to My Content.
Changes in language support
The Portal for ArcGIS 10.5.1 website has been localized to the following new languages:
- Bosnian (BS)
- Hindi (HI)
- Indonesian (ID)
Beginning with 10.5.1, the Portal for ArcGIS help and administrator guides will not be translated into Portuguese (Portugal).
What's new in 10.5
Portal for ArcGIS 10.5 includes stability enhancements and improved functionality.
Use Living Atlas of the World content
At 10.5, Living Atlas of the World content published by Esri is available to all portal members.
If your portal administrator has configured the portal to access Living Atlas content, you can add layers from Living Atlas to your maps or scenes and create apps containing Living Atlas content when you are signed in to the portal. You can also access Living Atlas content from the Esri Featured Content tab of the Gallery and in analysis tools in the map viewer and Insights for ArcGIS.
Perform big data analysis with ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server
Beginning at ArcGIS 10.5, you can perform feature analysis using distributed computing with the tools provided by ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server. These tools can analyze patterns and aggregate data in the context of both space and time as well as help you answer questions such as the following:
- Using millions of emergency calls accumulated over decades, which areas had the highest rates of emergency calls?
- What are the most popular locations for taxi pickups in New York City, and how is this trend changing weekly?
- What is the flight path of recorded GPS tracks, and how many of those paths occurred within 100 km of a no-fly zone in 2015?
To learn more about using these tools in the map viewer, see Perform big data analysis with GeoAnalytics Server . You can also use the tools in ArcGIS Pro; see the ArcGIS Pro Help for details.
Perform large raster data analysis with ArcGIS Image Server
At 10.5, you can perform large raster data analysis using distributed computing with the tools provided by ArcGIS Image Server. These tools use the existing raster function analysis capability to allow you to build your own custom raster processing or analysis workflow using ArcGIS Pro as a client, and generate the analysis result at full resolution.
A subset of the raster analysis tools is also available in the map viewer.
See the ArcGIS Pro help for details on using the raster analysis tools through ArcGIS Pro. To learn more about using these tools in the map viewer, see Perform raster analysis.
Share content with multiple portals using portal-to-portal collaboration
Beginning with Portal for ArcGIS 10.5, you can share content with other on-premises portals. This is done using portal-to-portal collaboration. Your administrator will set up a group that's linked to the other portals in the collaboration. Content shared with that group will be copied to the other portals according to a schedule that the collaboration administrator determines. See About portal-to-portal collaboration for more information.
ArcGIS Python API
ArcGIS Python API is a powerful, modern, and easy to use Python SDK for Web GIS. It empowers publishers, administrators, and developers to automate their workflows and perform repetitive tasks using scripts in ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS. By integrating with the Jupyter Notebook and the SciPy stack, it also enables academics, data scientists, and GIS analysts to share geo-enriched literate programs and reproducible research with others. To learn more about what you can do with this API, see ArcGIS Python API.
Explore your data with Insights for ArcGIS
Insights for ArcGIS allows you to create dynamic collections of data in workbooks where you visualize and interact with your data to gain spatial understanding. An Insights workbook is a new item type in Portal for ArcGIS that provides an exploratory spatial analysis experience.
See What is Insights? for details.
Access apps through the Apps button
If you have been assigned a license for ArcGIS Business Analyst web app, GeoPlanner for ArcGIS, or Insights for ArcGIS, the Apps button 
will appear in the header of the portal website when you sign in, allowing you to open these apps from the portal.
Improved item pages
Item pages have been redesigned with improved workflows, performance, and layout. They also include new functionality that helps you explore and work with content. For content consumers, the pages provide more ways to explore items in-depth. For content creators and administrators, the new design makes it easier to modify item properties and configure settings.
Design improvements include the following:
- A new tabbed layout that makes it easy to find, add, and edit information about an item.
- More in-depth information is provided for each item, with the most important information presented first.
- Convenient, in-place editing of item descriptions and other information.
- More intuitive workflow for configuring editing options for feature layers.
New functionality includes the following:
- An interactive attribute table that integrates related records and attachments, making it easy to navigate and edit hosted feature layer data and view all aspects of a field together, including field values, summary statistics, and settings.
- A focused experience for content creators and consumers to configure feature layer styles, pop-ups, and other layer properties without having to leave the item page to go to the map viewer.
- The ability to create configurable apps from maps and scenes directly from the item pages.
- You can now reply to a comment on an item when viewing an item page.
- Item owners are notified by email when a new comment is published. Email notifications are also sent to all comment thread participants when a new comment is added to a thread.
Manage story maps with My Stories
The My Stories app helps you create and manage story maps in your portal. Open My Stories when configuring a story map or from a URL. You can use the app to organize and validate existing story maps or to create story maps.
Default Viewer role
In addition to the default User, Publisher, and Administrator roles, a default Viewer role is available for members with a limited set of privileges.
New item types
The following new item types are supported in Portal for ArcGIS 10.5:
- Big data file share—A big data file share item is created for each big data file share you register with your portal's federated servers. The big data file share item in your portal allows you to browse for your registered data so that you can run GeoAnalytics Server tools on your datasets. A big data file share is only available for use if you have enabled the ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server.
- Relational database connection—A relational database connection item allows client applications to browse the tables and views within a database for the purpose of analyzing its contents. An item of this type can be created when getting data from a database within the Insights for ArcGIS app by selecting New connection. When a relational database connection item is shared, the owner of the item is giving others the ability to browse the database's content and is not sharing any user name or password information. Before Insights for ArcGIS can create relational database connection items, an administrator must enable database connections on your portal's hosting server.
- Insights workbook—An Insights workbook collects or associates all data and analytical activity for a project in a single place, capturing and maintaining relationships such as data locations and storing results layers, models, pages, and cards.
- Insights model—An Insights model records your analysis steps on a workbook page, including adding and joining datasets, spatial analysis (such as spatial filtering), data analytics (such as attribute aggregation), and styling. You can edit, use, and share an Insights model to automate common analytical tasks.
- Insights page—An Insights workbook enables you to divide your work among different pages. Each page is where you add data and analyze related content and themes. Additionally, individual pages can be shared more widely so that the interactive visualizations can be explored by others in the Insights viewer.
- WFS layer—If you require OGC compliant feature layers, you can publish hosted WFS layers from an existing hosted feature layer or add a WFS service from an ArcGIS Server site as an item in your portal.
- Scene layer package—Scene layer packages are portable files that contain a single web scene layer. ArcGIS Pro 1.3 generated scene packages (.spk). Beginning with ArcGIS Pro 1.4, you will create scene layer packages (.slpk) instead. Portal for ArcGIS 10.5 can work with both types of packages.
- Image collection— An image collection is a .zip file that contains one or more image files. You can upload the .zip file to your portal and publish a hosted imagery layer.
- When you share a geoprocessing service from ArcGIS Pro 1.4 to one of your portal's federated servers, the corresponding item created in your portal will be called a Tool. This equates to a geoprocessing service running on the federated server.
Publishing
You can publish hosted WFS layers from an existing hosted feature layer. Hosted WFS layers are OGC compliant, read-only views of the hosted feature layer data from which they are published.
Beginning at ArcGIS Pro 1.4, when publishing to one of your portal's federated servers, you can choose to cache your map image or imagery layers. You can also publish a Tool or Locator to a federated server. See Share with ArcGIS Pro in the ArcGIS Pro help for details.
Hosted tile layers published to Portal for ArcGIS 10.5 are enabled for WMTS. This allows WMTS client apps to consume hosted tile layers from Portal for ArcGIS. Once your portal and hosting server are upgraded to 10.5, existing hosted tile layers can also be used in WMTS client apps.
New analysis tool
The new Choose Best Facilities analysis tool finds the set of facilities that best serve demand from surrounding areas. Facilities might be public institutions that offer a service, such as fire stations, schools, or libraries, or they might be commercial ones, such as drug stores or distribution centers for a parcel delivery service. Demand represents the need for a service that the facilities can meet. Demand is associated with point locations, with each location representing a given amount of demand.
Improvements in the map viewer
- You can now search for layers in ArcGIS Online from your portal's map viewer. This option is enabled by default in the map viewer but can be disabled for disconnected deployments or otherwise by setting the advanced portal option for the searchArcGISOnlineEnabled property to false.
- You can now create a basemap containing multiple layers from your map. This is useful when you have two or more layers that you want to use together as a background, or context, for your map—for example, if you have a base imagery layer and want to add a map image layer that includes reference labels on top of it, or if you want to combine multiple base layers, such as a hillshade imagery layer with a topographic map image layer. Layer types that are currently supported as basemap layers—such as tiles and WMS—can be added to a multilayer basemap in the Contents pane.
- When using the map viewer to get driving directions, you can now make changes to the route. Drag the route on the map to dynamically alter the route and the turn-by-turn directions.
- It's easier to share pre-calculated, optimized routes with others to use in field apps such as Navigator for ArcGIS and in web and desktop apps. Create your route in the map viewer, save the route layer as an item, and share it through the item page.
- You can now filter your data by date to view events that happened within a certain time period—for example, in the last week, over the last two months, or in a specific year.
- Use the new Predominant Category and Predominant Category & Size styles to compare multiple related attributes in a layer and show which attribute is predominant. For example, in a layer that shows crop production by county, it is useful to know which crop has the highest value and the degree of its predominance compared to other crops.
- The option to search layers on the web is no longer supported in the map viewer.
Improvements in the scene viewer
The following enhancements have been made in the scene viewer:
- Global scenes now support tile layers and base maps in WGS84 coordinate system.
- Integrated meshes—a new layer type for UAV- or airplane-based photogrammetric 3D scans of surfaces (published by Drone2Map for ArcGIS and third-party vendors)—are now supported.
- A new sun control option introduces daylight and shadow animation over a day or a whole year.
- The user experience for adding ground elevation layers to a scene has been improved.
Create apps based on scenes
You can use a configurable app or Web AppBuilder to create and publish an app based on a scene in My Content.
Enhancements for open standards
You can now add and use the following OGC service layers in Portal for ArcGIS
- Add OGC Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) services as items.
- Add OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) layers to maps and as items, or publish a hosted WFS layer from a hosted feature layer in your portal.
- Enable pop-ups in OGC Web Map Service (WMS) layers.
- Hosted tile layers are now enabled as WMTS items, allowing you to use them in WMTS clients.
Additional language support
The Portal for ArcGIS 10.5 website has been localized to the following new languages:
- Croatian (Hr)
- Serbian (Sr)
Changes in configurable app templates
The following configurable app templates are new at Portal for ArcGIS 10.5:
- 3D Data Visualization—From My Content, use this configurable app with a global or local scene to visualize numeric data.
- Basic Viewer (10.5 version)—The configuration experience for this new version of the Basic Viewer is easier to access and use. This is part of an ongoing goal by Esri to design and implement GIS products and technologies that everyone can access and use and that align with the objectives of Section 508.
- Compare Scenes—Explore different scenarios or locations with a side-by-side comparison of two local or global scenes.
- Simple Scene Viewer—Present a global or local scene with a custom color theme and more context, such as a title and subtitle, than the scene viewer provides.
- Time Aware (10.5 version)—This new version of the Time Aware app template includes improved date and time formatting and a new option for displaying data for the last 24 hours.
The Crowdsource Manager app now contains options for enabling attribute and time filters that have been set on the map, displaying noneditable layers in addition to editable layers, viewing and editing, and batch updating feature attributes.
The following app templates have been retired. Use the suggested replacement app templates instead.
| Retired app template | Replacement app template |
|---|---|
Basic Viewer | Basic Viewer (10.5 version) |
Time Aware (10.4 version) | Time Aware (10.5 version) |
Tip:
Esri does not maintain the code on retired templates, and retired templates are not available from the map viewer. However, you can download the source code and API for retired templates and host them on your own web server. Instructions are included in readme files included with the download file.
New functionality in Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS
The following functionality has been added to Web AppBuilder. For more information, see Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS help.
- An improved building experience allows you to modify the map from within Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS; you no longer need to leave the app.
- You can now build 3D apps with scenes.
- The Attribute tab has a new app state option. This option allows you to choose if you want to keep the map extent and layers visible when you leave the app.
- Use the new District Lookup widget to find point features related to a selected polygon, view more detailed information about the related point features, and get directions to a selected point feature.
- The Edit widget includes a display field in the setting page so you can choose attributes for display only when performing editing.
- Use the new Plateau theme to create a modern and minimalist-styled app with flat toolbars and widget containers.
- Use the new Near Me widget to find features near a specified location, view more detailed information about those features, and get directions to a selected feature.
- The Add Color Picker theme allows you to choose your own color or match your agency's approved color palette.
- The Select widget enables other widgets to take an action on the selected features.
- Use the Share widget to enable a social sharing experience of apps.
- The Add Data widget enables you to search for layers in the organization, the web, ArcGIS Online, and a GIS Server and add them to the map at runtime.
- The enhanced Query widget adds spatial relationships such as intersect, overlap, and contain so you can perform the query against features in another layer. The result can be exported as a CSV file, GeoJSON, or feature collection.
- Use the Filter widget to filter features. Other widgets, if applicable, will use the filter accordingly.
- The Smart Editor widget extends the core editing widget.
- The Oblique Viewer widget displays images in their native coordinate system using the image's coordinate system. This allows you to pan in the oblique mode, in a single viewing angle, or switch angles to view an area of interest from different angles.