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URL:
https://<root>/system/content/configuration/update
Methods:
POST
Version Introduced:
10.6

Access requirements

Required privileges

The Portal Administrator API requires privilege-based access. An administrator must be assigned a specific user privilege, or role, to access any given endpoint. Listed below are the user privileges or roles an administrator can be assigned that provides access to this endpoint. If multiple privileges are listed, only one needs to be assigned to gain access.


Tokens

This API requires token-based authentication. A token is automatically generated for administrators who sign in to the Portal Administrator API directory's HTML interface. Tokens generated in this way are stored for the entirety of the session.

Those accessing the API directory outside of the HTML interface will need to acquire a session token from the generateToken operation in the Portal Directory API. For security reasons, all POST requests made to the Portal Administrator API must include a token in the request body.


Learn how to generate a token

Description

The update operation allows an administrator to enable or disable external content discovery from the portal website.

Because some Esri-provided content requires external access to the internet, an administrator may choose to disable the content to prevent requests to ArcGIS Online resources. When disabling the content, a select group of items will be disabled:

  • All basemaps owned by "esri_[lang]"
  • All content owned by "esri_nav"
  • All content owned by "esri"

For steps on how to disable ArcGIS Online utility services or ArcGIS Living Atlas content, see the Configure utility services and Configure Living Atlas resources in the Portal Administration guide.

When external content is disabled, System Languages are also disabled.

Request parameters

ParameterDetails

externalContentEnabled

Determines whether a set of Esri-provided content that requires external access to the internet is enabled. The default is true.

Values: true | false

f

The response format. The default format is html.

Values: html | json | pjson

Example usage

The following is a sample POST request for the update operation:

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POST /<context>/portaladmin/system/content/configuration HTTP/1.1
Host: organization.example.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: []

externalContentEnabled=true&f=json

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