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Change the ownership of a Portal for ArcGIS item through the ArcGIS Portal Directory

Last Published: May 30, 2023

Summary

In Portal for ArcGIS, the default administrator or custom role with administrative privileges can reassign the ownership of specific items in the organization to another member.

The instructions provided describe how to change the ownership of a Portal for ArcGIS item through the ArcGIS Portal Directory.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the ArcGIS Portal Directory using the following URL and log in as an administrator.
https://<webAdaptorHost>.<domain>.com/<webAdaptorName>/sharing/rest
  1. Click the administrator username at the top right corner of the ArcGIS Portal Directory page, and click the Org ID hyperlink under User (<username>).
The ArcGIS Portal Directory administrator User page
  1. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Users under Child Resources.
The Child Resources on the ArcGIS Portal Directory Portal page
  1. On the Organization Users () page, click the member with the target item.
  2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click User Content under Related Resources.
  3. Click the item under Items.
The Items table on the ArcGIS Portal Directory User Content page
  1. On the User Item page, scroll down and click Reassign Item.
  2. Type the new owner's member's username in the Target Username textbox, and click Reassign Item.
The ArcGIS Portal Directory Reassign Item page
  1. Reindex Portal for ArcGIS. Refer to How To: Manually rebuild the index in Portal for ArcGIS for instructions.

Article ID: 000030354

Software:
  • Portal for ArcGIS
  • ArcGIS Server
  • ArcGIS Enterprise 10 x
  • ArcGIS Enterprise 11 0
  • ArcGIS Enterprise 11 1

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