1. Add content

You can share relevant, authoritative, and compelling content such as maps, layers, scenes, and apps inside and outside your organization. The first step to sharing your content is to add it to your organization. If you have privileges to create content, you can add items from your local machine or the web. Many types of items can be added. You can also create and save items—such as maps, scenes, and apps—directly in the portal.

2. Refine item details

Every item in the ArcGIS Enterprise portal has an item page that contains a variety of information, actions, options, and settings. The details you provide for the items in your organization help other people find your content, as well as understand its purpose, the data it contains, and whether there are restrictions on its use. To make your content stand out as compelling and authoritative, credit the source of the data and include an interesting summary, an in-depth description, and carefully considered tags. Also consider adding a custom thumbnail to make your item stand out in galleries and search results.

3. Choose your audience

Before sharing your items, identify your audience. Do you need to share your items with the public, with your organization, or with specific individuals in your organization or another organization? Until you share your items, they can only be accessed by you and by organization members with the required administrative privileges.

4. Share content

After you add content as items, refine the item details, and choose your audience, the final step is to share your items.

You can share a wide variety of item types. For example, you can share a map or scene through an app or embed a map in a web site. You can share files, maps, scenes, and app with groups you belong to, your organization, the public (everyone), or with a combination of these. Using groups is a way to share your content privately with others, facilitate team collaboration, and highlight and organize items by theme or project.

Next steps

Use these resources to learn more about sharing:

• Share items
• Get started with groups