Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

Overwriting the feature layer

The Excel spreadsheet of our stations is updated daily, so the feature service needs to be as well.

First, import our usual libraries, but this time we will also import the FeatureLayerCollection class from the arcgis.features module. This class will allow us to update our existing feature layer:

    import pandas as pd 
    from arcgis.gis import GIS 
    from arcgis.features import FeatureLayerCollection 

Connect to our Portal as follows:

    gis = GIS("https://www.masteringageadmin.com/portal", 
              "portaladmin", "password")

We know the item ID of our feature service and it doesn't change, so let's use that to search for the item. We then take that item and pass it into FeatureLayerCollection.fromitem() to create a feature layer ...