Directory

• URL:https://<directories-url>/<directory>
  
• Operations:Edit Directory
• Required Capability:Default administrator role | Security and infrastructure privilege
• Version Introduced:10.2.1

Description

This resource returns the properties of an individual directory. A directory is a file system-based folder that contains a specific type of content for the portal. The physicalPath property of a directory locates the actual path of the folder on the file system. Beginning at 10.2.1, Portal for ArcGIS supports local directories and network shares as valid locations.

During the Portal for ArcGIS installation, the setup program asks you for the root portal directory (that will contain all the portal's sub directories). However, you can change each registered directory through this API.

Request parameters

Parameter	Details
f	The response format. The default response format is html. Values: html | json | pjson

Example usage

Below is a sample request URL for an individual directory resource:

https://machine.domain.com/webadaptor/portaladmin/system/directories/testDirectory?f=json

JSON Response syntax

{
  "name": "<name>",
  "physicalPath": "<path>",
  "directoryType": "<type>",
  "description": "<description>"
}

JSON Response example

{
  "name": "content",
  "physicalPath": "D:\\arcgisportal\\content",
  "directoryType": "CONTENT",
  "description": "the default content directory"
}