{"id":187381,"date":"2014-10-19T20:46:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T03:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=187381"},"modified":"2018-12-18T09:54:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T17:54:49","slug":"updating-hosted-feature-services-in-arcgis-online","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-online\/sharing-collaboration\/updating-hosted-feature-services-in-arcgis-online","title":{"rendered":"Updating Hosted Feature Services in ArcGIS Online"},"author":3651,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23851,37511],"tags":[24521],"industry":[],"product":[36591,36641,36551],"class_list":["post-187381","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-management","category-sharing-collaboration","tag-hosted-feature-services","product-apps","product-collector","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"Using web maps powered by Hosted Feature Services you can rapidly deploy field collection schemas to the field for use with Collector for ArcGIS.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/files\/2014\/10\/FieldSchema.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-43005 noIMGBackground\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/files\/2014\/10\/FieldSchema.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"103\" \/><\/a>Using web maps powered by Hosted Feature Services you can rapidly deploy field collection schemas to the field for use with Collector for ArcGIS. 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