ArcMap

Sign In To Portal

Summary

Allows you to sign in to portals. If you are publishing to an ArcGIS Online portal you need to be signed in to ArcGIS Online in order to publish. For those organizations that would like to use ArcGIS Online behind the firewall or in their own private cloud, there is a version that you can install and use on your own computer networks. It is called Portal for ArcGIS.

Learn more about managing your portal connections

Usage

  • To sign into an ArcGIS Online portal, your esri global account needs to be registered as a member of ArcGIS Online. To create an esri global account and register it, go to arcgis.com/home/signup.html.

  • Use the Sign Out From Portal tool to sign-out from the ArcGIS Online portal.

Syntax

SignInToPortal(username, password, portal_url)
ParameterExplanationData Type
username

Portal for ArcGIS username. This parameter is optional for portals with Integrated Windows Authentication.

String
password

Portal for ArcGIS password. This parameter is optional for portals with Integrated Windows Authentication.

Encrypted String
portal_url

The Sign In To Portal tool reads the URL set in Desktop Administrator. Any user entered value is ignored. The default value is URL for the ArcGIS portal currently chosen by the user in Desktop Administrator.

String

Code sample

Sign in to ArcGIS Online (Python window)

Signs in to ArcGIS Online with a specified user name and password.

import arcpy
arcpy.SignInToPortal_server("username","password", "")
Publish to ArcGIS Online (stand-alone script)

The following script demonstrates a publishing workflow to ArcGIS Online using Sign In To Portal, Stage Service, Upload Service Definition, and Sign Out From Portal.

# Name: SignInToPortal_Example1.py
# Description: Use SignInToPortal to sign-in to Portal for ArcGIS and use a
# service definition draft to create a service definition and then upload and
# publish that service definition.

# Import system modules
import arcpy
from arcpy import env

# Sign-in to ArcGIS Online
arcpy.SignInToPortal_server("username","password", "")

# Set environment settings
env.workspace = "C:/data"

# Set local variables
in_service_definition_draft = "MyMapService.sddraft"
out_service_definition = "MyMapService.sd"

# Execute StageService
arcpy.StageService_server(in_service_definition_draft, out_service_definition)

# Set local variables
in_sd_file = "MyMapService.sd"
in_server = "My Hosted Services"

# Execute UploadServiceDefinition
arcpy.UploadServiceDefinition_server(in_sd_file, in_server)

# Sign out from ArcGIS Online
arcpy.SignOutFromPortal_server()

Environments

This tool does not use any geoprocessing environments.

Licensing information

  • Basic: Yes
  • Standard: Yes
  • Advanced: Yes

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