With ArcGIS Pro, you can save updates to web link charts in an ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4 or later portal. ArcGIS Pro provides advanced authoring capabilities for symbolizing and visualizing geospatial data that you can use to modify existing web link charts. Saving a web link chart preserves the web link chart item ID.
The following conditions must be met when saving a web link chart:
- The active link chart must be linked to a web link chart. When you add a web link chart to a project, it is converted to an ArcGIS Pro link chart and linked to the web link chart. Adding a web link chart to a project is similar to adding a web map or scene. For more information, see Add a web map or web scene.
- The active portal must be the portal where the web link chart resides.
- You must be signed in as the owner of the web link chart item, an administrator, or a member of the shared update group to which the web link chart is shared.
- Your account must have privileges to create content. Additional privileges are required if data layers are to be published as web layers.
Saving a web link chart in ArcGIS Pro updates the linked web link chart but does not update existing web layers or table items in the portal. For example, saving a link chart containing changes to a layer's symbology stores those changes in the web link chart only. The appearance or properties of the web layer in other web link charts are not affected because the changes are only applied to the updated web link chart. Web layer items in the portal remain unchanged even if they are removed from the link chart in ArcGIS Pro. If you add data layers to the link chart, saving the link chart publishes the new layers to the portal and adds them to the web link chart.
Save a web link chart in a portal
Before saving a web link chart, there are considerations to be aware of. The following workflow saves updates to a web link chart in a portal:
- Add a web link chart to a project.
- Add data layers or make changes to the symbology, pop-ups, or labels of existing web layers in the link chart.
- On the ribbon, on the Share tab, in the Manage group, click Save Web Link Chart
.If ArcGIS Pro was not the application used to last modify the web link chart, the Save web link chart dialog box appears. Do one of the following:Note:
The Save Web Link Chart button
is unavailable if the active link chart is not linked to a web link chart.- Click Save web link chart to update the existing web link chart.
- Click Share as new web link chart to open the Share As Web Link Chart pane. You can share a new web link chart to examine the features that may be altered or lost before committing the save to the original web link chart. See Share a web link chart for more information.
The Save Web Link Chart pane appears.
- Optionally, edit the Summary and Tags fields.
You can enter a maximum of 128 tags.
- Optionally, if your link chart contains data layers that will be published, choose their configuration for your web link chart.
See Share a web link chart using a selected configuration for a list of available configurations.
- Optionally, under Sharing Level, change the settings:
- Owner—Only the owner (and organization members with privileges to view content owned by other members) can access the item. This is the default option.
- Organization—Share your content with all authenticated users in your organization. This option is available when you are signed in with an organizational account.
- Everyone (public)—Share your content with the public. Anyone can access and see it.
- Optionally, under Groups, select groups to which you belong to share your content with their members.
Note:
You must be an administrator or the owner of the web link chart to change the sharing settings.
- Optionally, click the Configuration tab at the top of the pane to see the web layers that will be created when you save the link chart or to change the web layers' properties.
See Configure a web link chart for more information.
If you enabled the Allow assignment of unique numeric IDs for sharing web layers option on the Link Chart Properties dialog box, assigned IDs appear for each sublayer. To change an ID, click the number next to the layer or table. On the Layer Properties or Standalone Table Properties dialog box, on the General tab, provide a custom integer ID in the Layer ID or Table ID text box. For more information, see Assign layer IDs.
- Under Finish Saving, click Analyze
to review for potential problems. Errors and warnings are listed on the Messages tab. Right-click a message to open its help topic or take corrective action in the software. You must resolve errors
before you can save the web link chart. Resolving warnings 
is recommended but not required. - After you have resolved errors, and optionally resolved warnings, click Save
to update the web link chart in the portal.If the sharing settings have changed, the Update Sharing dialog box may appear, where you can confirm that the layers are visible to your intended viewers.
- On the Update Sharing dialog box, click Update to adjust the layer sharing settings to make the layers visible in the web link chart.
A message appears if one or more editable web feature layers cannot be shared with everyone. You must approve public data collection from the layer's item page on the portal. For more information, see Allow or prevent editing on public layers.
The updates are saved to the existing web link chart.
- On the Update Sharing dialog box, click Update to adjust the layer sharing settings to make the layers visible in the web link chart.
- Click the Manage web link chart link at the bottom of the pane to manage the web link chart in the portal.
If the web link chart is composed of new web layers cached automatically on the server, the layers may not be viewable while cache generation is in progress. Click Jobs
to view the cache status in the Job Status pane.
The Archive the last updated web link chart option creates a copy of the previous version of the web link chart. The copied web link chart is created as an item with its own ID in the portal. This setting is enabled by default.
The default archive web link chart name is <web link chart>_<timestamp>. If you are the owner of the original web link chart, the archived item is stored in the same folder as the web link chart. Otherwise, it is stored in the root folder.
Considerations when saving web link charts
Saving web link charts in ArcGIS Pro can improve your link chart management workflows. However, limitations exist due to differences in support for some web link chart properties across applications. If you make changes to the web link chart using another application and open it in ArcGIS Pro, some properties may appear altered, while others may be removed. Any properties that were removed when the web link chart was converted to an ArcGIS Pro link chart will be lost if the web link chart is saved.
Limitations
The following are some known limitations to consider before saving a web link chart with ArcGIS Pro:
- Pop-ups on web tile layers or cached map image layers that are configured to use attribute data from a feature layer will be lost when the web link chart is opened in ArcGIS Pro. See Configure pop-ups for more information.
- WMS service layers that support multiple styles do not preserve nondefault styles applied in ArcGIS Pro. The web link chart will only render the default style of the WMS service layer. See Change the style of a WMS service sublayer for more information.
Best practices
The following are best practices to consider before saving a web link chart in ArcGIS Pro:
- When you open a web link chart in ArcGIS Pro, review it for discrepancies, especially pop-ups, labels, and other properties that were authored in another application.
- If there are multiple users in your ArcGIS organization who can update the web link chart, determine whether the web link chart was modified since you opened it in ArcGIS Pro to avoid overwriting changes other users may have made. To work with the latest version of a web link chart, refresh the link chart in your project. See Update a web map or web scene for more information.
- Share the updated link chart as a new web link chart first and review it for discrepancies. Save it when you are confident in your decision to update the original web link chart.