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About the ArcGIS Portal Directory

The ArcGIS Portal Directory is an interactive view of the ArcGIS REST API's resources for working with the portal. There are two web applications with different URLs that you'll use to browse the capabilities of the portal and execute operations.

The available tasks vary between URLs, as described below.

/portaladmin

Accessing the ArcGIS Portal Directory over the URL https://webadaptor.domain.com/arcgis/portaladmin allows you to perform certain administrative functions not available in the portal website. You'll primarily use this URL to do the following:

/sharing/rest

Accessing the ArcGIS Portal Directory over the URL https://webadaptor.domain.com/arcgis/sharing/rest allows you to perform the following:

  • Add and remove users from groups.
  • Upload and publish items.
  • Search items.
  • Federate one or more ArcGIS Server sites with your portal.
  • Designate a federated server as the portal's hosting server.