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Bug

The 'Optimize layer drawing' setting is turned off when adding and updating features for an ArcGIS Online hosted feature layer.

ArcGIS Online
Bug ID Number BUG-000178661
SubmittedAugust 12, 2025
Last ModifiedOctober 6, 2025
Applies toArcGIS Online
Version foundJune 2025
Operating SystemWindows OS
Operating System Version11.0 64 bit
StatusAs Designed

Additional Information

This is by design. When exporting a hosted feature layer with the 'Optimize layer drawing' enabled to a file geodatabase, the setting itself is not stored as a flag or property in the geodatabase. Here is why: 1. The 'Optimize layer drawing' in ArcGIS Online is a service-level performance feature, not an attribute of the dataset. 2. When exporting to a file geodatabase, the raw feature data (points, lines, polygons, attributes) are exported, those cached generalized geometries and the multiScaleGeometryInfo metadata are not written into the file geodatabase tables or schema. 3. In the file geodatabase, only the feature classes and possibly related tables, attachments, domains, subtypes are gotten; no reference to the 'Optimize layer drawing' setting survives the export. Therefore after exporting: There is no multiScaleGeometryInfo in the FGDB. The setting is effectively gone. To publish the file geodatabase again as a hosted layer or to update a hosted layer with this file geodatabase, re-enable 'Optimize layer drawing' in the service settings. Currently, the server automatically enables 'Optimize layer drawing' during publishing if the vertices of any feature exceed 400,000, even though the 'Optimize layer drawing' is disabled. In the example, none of the features has more than 400,000 vertices, so the server would not enable 'Optimize layer drawing'.

Steps to Reproduce

Bug ID: BUG-000178661

Software:

  • ArcGIS Online

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