Tools shared on your portal are available from the Portal section of the Catalog pane. You can also make a direct connection to a stand-alone or federated ArcGIS Server and use the geoprocessing services in a similar way.
Find and use web tools in ArcGIS Enterprise
When connected to your ArcGIS Enterprise portal, you can search and use web tools. Finding and using web tools depends on the sharing permissions set in your portal and your account permissions. If searching or browsing for a web tool does not produce any results, contact your portal administrator about changing your account permissions.
To search for a web tool, complete the following steps:
- In the Catalog pane, select Portal.
By default, only your items are listed under My Content. You can search for items in a group or in the entire portal.
- Double-click the toolbox for a web tool to see the tools it contains, or right-click and add the toolbox to the project.
Connect to ArcGIS Server and use the geoprocessing service
When connecting to ArcGIS Server, a URL is required, and possibly a username and password. The URL is typically provided by the ArcGIS Server administrator and is the following format: https://organization.example.com/<context>/services. This URL is usually not viewable in a web browser because it serves SOAP requests only. Do not provide the REST URL, or if /rest/ is in the URL. Once you have the URL of your ArcGIS Server, make a connection by completing the following steps:
- On the Insert tab, choose Connections.
- Choose New ArcGIS Server.
- Provide the server URL.
- Optionally, provide a username and password if your server is secure.
- In the Catalog pane, expand the Servers folder.
- Double-click the new ArcGIS Server connection to enable it.
- Expand the service and double-click the tool.
The tool opens in the Geoprocessing pane.
- If the tool accepts parameters, you can provide them and click Run.
Depending on the tool, the output result may be added automatically to an active map or scene. Other tools may not provide geographic output, such as text, numbers, or files. In this case, review the tool results in the geoprocessing history.
Tip:
A service that returns feature or raster data automatically makes a copy and places it in the project's default geodatabase after the tool successfully runs. The feature or raster data is transferred from the service, and the ArcGIS Pro session updates the local file name by an increment of one to ensure that data is not overwritten.
Interactive feature input
A web tool can also support interactive feature input. The interaction with interactive feature input is slightly different from that in ArcGIS Pro. For more information, see Web tools and geoprocessing services.