ArcGIS Docs Lookup

Answer every ArcGIS question from the first-party source that owns it — never a stale mirror, a wrong-product page, or an unverified forum post.

Route to the owning source

• developers.arcgis.com — ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript, ArcGIS API for Python, the REST API, and Arcade references.
• developers.arcgis.com/enterprise-sdk — the ArcGIS Enterprise SDK, including Custom Data Feeds (CDF) provider development. A distinct product area from the developer references above — route CDF and Enterprise SDK questions here.
• pro.arcgis.com — ArcGIS Pro, including ArcPy and geoprocessing.
• enterprise.arcgis.com — ArcGIS Enterprise, Portal, and Notebook Server administration and runtime docs.

Never cite ArcMap, ArcCatalog, or ArcGIS Desktop documentation. It describes a retired product whose APIs have diverged from Pro and Enterprise. If a search returns an ArcMap or ArcGIS Desktop page, discard it and find the Pro or Enterprise equivalent.

Pin the version

Enterprise docs are version-scoped by URL path (e.g. .../enterprise/11.2/...). Pin every Enterprise URL to the target version you are working against — the release the caller named, or the one the user is on. An unversioned or mismatched Enterprise URL is not an acceptable citation.

Treat Community as a hypothesis, not a source