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Hi Neil, I think your best bet is to host them on AGOL or with your own web hosting. I'm not familiar with any restrictions on the number of files in a folder in AGOL but I can ask around the office tomorrow. However, I think your idea for private web hosting might be the fastest/easiest. You can spin up a VM somewhere like DigitalOcean <http://www.digitalocean.com> or pretty much any Amazon instance. I'm quite happy with DigitalOcean. It costs me $7/mo and you can get $25 credit for recommendations (both people get the credit). I had web hosting up and running in ~5 minutes. This includes configuring SFTP transfer with FileZilla. You could give them consistent names, SFTP them into a directory, and field calculate the link column really quickly. I think this solution might take about an hour to stand up, beginning to end. Otherwise, I think Google Drive would work fine. I've done it before but I think you'd spend more time configuring it than other options. Hope that helps, Chris Martin On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Neil Curri <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm investigating where I could host thousands of PDFs, each of which will > be associated with a specific feature in a hosted feature layer on ArcGIS > Online. The URL will be an attribute in the feature layer, and made > available as a simple link in the pop-up for each feature to the file. > > I initially looked at Dropbox, but scrapped it because there doesn't seem > to be a way to get direct links to all the files in the public folder en > masse to populate into an attribute column -- it appears that it must be > done individually through the GUI. > > Next, I've been looking into Google Drive. You can get a direct link to > all your files via the folderID, which appears to be static (https :// > googledrive.com/host/<folderID>/<filename>). I tested this out with a > handful of PDF files, and it worked. So, that's possible. But I'm concerned > that the folderID isn't a really a static thing (as in permanent), or that > there's a quota to the number of files that can be linked to this folderID > (something I think Esri does on ArcGIS Online if you store your linked > files there). I'm not sure if that's really a concern, so if anyone's aware > I'd appreciate it. > > Searching around for alternatives, I came across another solution, also > using Google Drive. You use a link to the root folder (the webViewLink) to > publish the shared folder's contents, then apparently you can use a > simplified URL to link to the files in the folder. It's described in the > Google apps developer blog here > <http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.ca/2012/11/announcing-google-drive-site-publishing.html>, > though I haven't yet tried it nor do I know where exactly to start, but I > did get as far as being able to retrieve the webViewLink from the shared > folder. Would anyone recommend this method over the previous, simpler > method? > > Another option would be to store the linked files on a private web hosting > site for the chum change it costs nowadays for a basic account. Although > there are a lot of files to store, it's not a lot of data. I don't even > need DNS. > > If you've found success with any of these or other options or would > recommend one over another, I'd be interested to know. > > Neil Curri > GIS Analyst, PVE Sheffler > Vassar College Academic Computing Consultant > [log in to unmask] | 845-437-7708 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This list (NEARC-L) is an unmoderated discussion list for all NEARC Users. > > If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from this list, you can remove > yourself by going to http://s.uconn.edu/nearcsubscribe. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list (NEARC-L) is an unmoderated discussion list for all NEARC Users. If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from this list, you can remove yourself by going to http://s.uconn.edu/nearcsubscribe.