Move items

Portal in ArcGIS provides tools to move items between different locations in your organization. You can move items between folders, groups, and even between different portal accounts. This allows you to organize your content and share it with the appropriate users or groups.

Why move items?

Moving items enables users to better organize, share, and manage their content.

You can move items in portal to:

• Organize content into folders to help users keep related items together making them easier to find and manage.
• Change ownership of an item by moving an item to a different folder.
• Transfer an item to another account or share it with different groups.
• Consolidate items for specific projects or workflows.
• Migrate content between different organizations or between ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise.

How to move items

The general steps of moving items:

1. Access your content

Sign in to your portal and ensure that you have administrative privileges to manage content within your organization.

• ArcGIS portal (ArcGIS Location Platform or ArcGIS Online)
• ArcGIS Enterprise portal (ArcGIS Enterprise)

Go to the Content tab, where you can view all the content available within your organization.

2. Select items

To find and select an item, you can follow one of these methods:

• Use the search bar at the top of the page to enter keywords related to the item you are looking for.
• Browse through your content by clicking on the Content tab on the top navigation bar.
• Filter your content by type, owner, or other criteria to locate the specific item more efficiently.

Once you find the item, click on it to open its details page, where you can view its properties and perform various actions.

3. Move items

Follow these steps to move items in your organization:

1. Click Move. Depending on the permissions you have, you may need to share the item with the desired group or organization.
2. Select the destination folder. You may need appropriate permissions to move items to certain groups or organizations.

Code examples

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item_id = "item_id_here"
source_folder = "source_folder_name_here"
destination_folder = "destination_folder_name_here"

try:
    # Get the item
    item = gis.content.get(item_id)

    # Move the item to the destination folder
    item.move(destination_folder)

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item_id = "itemid_to_move"
source_group_id = "source_group_id"
destination_group_id = "destination_group_id"

# Get the item
item = gis.content.get(item_id)

# Get source and destination groups
source_group = gis.groups.get(source_group_id)
destination_group = gis.groups.get(destination_group_id)

# Reassign the item to the destination group
item.reassign_to(destination_group)

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item_id_to_move = "item_id"

# Destination folder (optional)
destination_folder = "Destination Folder"

# Authenticate to both source and target GIS
source_gis = GIS(source_url, source_username, source_password)
target_gis = GIS(target_url, target_username, target_password)

# Move the item
try:
    # Get the item from the source GIS
    item = source_gis.content.get(item_id)

    # Create a copy of the item in the target GIS
    copied_item = item.copy(target_gis)

    # Move the copied item to the specified folder in the target GIS
    if destination_folder:
        copied_item.move(destination_folder)

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