Gallery card Hub lacks item-support (after changes 23th april 2019)

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Hi,

I have a question concerning the recent changes in Arcgis Hub (23th april 2019). One of the changes concerns the gallery card, which now opens app under the hub-header:

* Gallery card now links maps underneath the site's header

Although this change is not what I prefer, it changes the whole purpose of having designed a storymap including colour scheme and layout, when you simply put a completely different header on top of it without a clear boundary between the hubpage and the app, I can probably live with it.

The one thing that I really think should be solved is that only apps which are shown correctly are straight forward apps and dashboards. In my organisation's hub I use "items" to create diverse options for sharing with my users, in a way that f.e. everybody can see the apps we create but in case access is limited one needs to login when the apps is actually opened.

The item I add in my arcgis online content will be an application, which refers to the app (or in some cases a different viewer) I want to show. The item is shared globally, the app it refers to with the only the neccesary group. The item was then added to the gallery card in Hub. That worked perfectly before, but now I get some sort of metadata-page after opening my item, without any acces to my url (like the page below).

This is very troublesome for us, because we are kind of fond of the items-option. Could you please fix this a.s.a.p?

Please check our hub for more detail: https://geo-point.provincie-utrecht.nl/ . If you open this page: https://geo-point.provincie-utrecht.nl/pages/bestuurlijke-zaken you'll find a Webkaart-button in the gallery which will show the problem. It occurs all over our site but I have find a workaround for the main pages, so people can again work with it.

thanks,

Christa

ChristaKemperman1 · Answer

thanks Brian. I'll keep an eye on the updates.

regards,

Christa

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BrianRollison · Answer

An update here, we have returned how the Gallery Card opens content to its behavior previous to 4/23.  This means for the time being it will not use the App Page capability to open supported apps in the context of the site's header.

We plan to reenable that functionality in the near future but discovered a few odd behaviors investigating the original question posted above.  You can continue to configure your Gallery Card to open content in the same tab or a new tab -- keep in mind it is a best practice to open content in the same tab for non-sighted visitors and mobile visitors.

Stay tuned for updates on this in the next few weeks!

BrianRollison · Answer

Anytime Christa Kemperman‌ 🙂

So the simple answer here is dashboards don't behave the way apps do on the platform which makes the open behavior slightly different.  Long story short:

* Applications have URLs associated with them which we use to reference the app and display under the header

* Other item types don't automatically have a URL associated with them, so we have to construct them

You'll find dashboards aren't the only type of content that falls into the second bucket.  We understand it is rather unclear which types of content are apps and which aren't -- they all look like apps at the end of the day.  We are working to streamline this experience going forward.

As an aside, you can now set your Gallery Cards to open content in the same tab or a new tab.  If you have the "App Page" capability turned on and a single Gallery Card showcases both apps and dashboards, then both should open in either the same tab or a new tab depending on your card's configuration.  The difference will be whether the content is displayed in the context of the site's header.

Brian