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I have a feature service in ArcGIS Online that has attachments enabled. We upload photos of sidewalk trip hazards that have been painted by the city.

I have several queries setup with the Query widget to search for the date sidewalks were painted and other filters, but I want to be able to search for features that have photos attached.

Is there a way to query for and quickly locate features that have attachments without having to click through them until I see one with an attachment link?

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    You could do something like this linked Show Attachments as fields where you could detect if the field had a value or no value at all community.esri.com/docs/…
    – Russ Roberts
    Oct 10, 2017 at 15:13
  • That link provides an option to view the attachments per feature selected individually rather that locating all features that have attachments.
    – whyzar
    Oct 10, 2017 at 15:16
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    I would do what Russ said, check to see if the field has a value or not.do not show NULL values.
    – NULL.Dude
    Oct 10, 2017 at 15:16
  • Did you want to query in ArcGIS online or what you be okay with export in viewing outside of the Online environment?
    – whyzar
    Oct 10, 2017 at 15:18
  • I can already view which records have attachments by relating the ATTACH table in ArcMap, but I want to be able to see them in ArcGIS Online specifically.
    – cbunn
    Oct 10, 2017 at 15:37

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The question is old and probably no longer needed. However, given how easy this is in 2019 with a little bit of puzzle solving, I will list one way of doing this:

Get Feature Attachments

  1. Get the service URL of the feature/layer. This is through the ArcGIS online service.

  2. Craft new URL as the combination of the following strings: HTTP:// [service URL]/[Feature Object ID]/attachments?f=json&token=

  3. Visit URL and this will give you a text string of the feature with a list of attachments.

  4. Run this for all of the features you are querying.

Scan multiple URLs and retrieve its results:

Use a combination of Excel (2013 and later) and its WEBSERVICE function. Excel has filtering abilities.

  1. Filter out features with no attachments.
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I finally revisited this and was able to create a solution using a definition query on my layer that is related to the ATTACH table. I simply had to apply this definition query to the layer:

GlobalID in (Select REL_GLOBALID FROM featureclass__ATTACH where ATTACHMENTID > 0)

This creates a layer that only shows features that have a related attachment, in this case pictures. The layer updates as new attachments are added and the database is compressed. See this thread for more information.

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