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Is the new ArcGIS StoryMap self-hostable?

Kara_Shindle

I'm thinking the answer to this question is no, but I wanted a solid answer. I just want to know if you can self-host the new ArcGIS StoryMap (with the Classics, you downloaded the source code and inserted your app ID, so you could give it a custom URL, among other things.)

So far, I have not found a blog, article, question, or source code that gives me this option.

I tried asking ESRI chat, and they keep giving me links to the self-hosting the classics blogs from 2017, BEFORE ArcGIS StoryMap existed.

Is this an option yet?

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oevans_storymaps

Hi Kara -- Not yet, but we are looking at options for that in the future. We don't have an estimate for when that might be available at this time.

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oevans_storymaps

Hi Kara -- Not yet, but we are looking at options for that in the future. We don't have an estimate for when that might be available at this time.

Kara_Shindle

Great, thanks, that's what I thought. Thank you for confirming!

VanessaPocock

Hi Owen,

I would just like to add that this is also a feature my organization is looking for within the new StoryMap application. It was very useful in the old version.

Vanessa

oevans_storymaps

Vanessa Pocock‌ and Kara Shindle‌ and anyone else who is interested in this thread...

Could you share the reasons you would like to be able to self-host your stories? This will be helpful as we decide on a timeline and strategy for this capability.

Kara_Shindle

For my organization, we are a mid-size county and we host the older version of story maps so that we can give them a custom URL, insert Google Analytics, and do any custom coding to tweak colors / themes / styling etc. on the story maps. Because of the nature of our website provider, they cannot do URL re-directs, so we need to be able to assign our own URLs, which is a big reason.

LindsayWithers1

We are in the same boat as Kara; we like the ability to customize the URL of our story maps (but I saw in another post that that functionality might be coming to the new StoryMaps) as well as have a custom favicon.

Kara_Shindle

I just saw ArcGIS Experience builder and through some (very) minimal research, thought I saw that it could be possible with Experience if you go the developer / desktop route, but I don't think it has as much feature-wise as StoryMaps, and it seemed complicated for someone who doesn't have much experience customizing / developing applications.

Kara_Shindle

I didn't find that this was an idea so I created one here https://community.esri.com/ideas/18536

Please vote this or let me know if you find a duplicate and I'll remove it. Thanks!

oevans_storymaps

All -- Thanks all for the feedback.

For those of you who want to customize the URL of a story, is it just the domain you are looking to customize (so https://myorg.com/stories/abcdefg123456), or is it the entire link (so, the domain and the rest of the URL like https://myorg.com/my-story-map)?

Also, I just wanted to mention that the new ArcGIS StoryMaps has the ability for you to add your Google Analytics key to track info about your stories. For more info, see Measure the traffic your story maps receive with Google Analytics.

Kara_Shindle

For my county, it is the entire link first and foremost, but I would probably use both options if they were available, so that I could have easily found applications and not so easily found applications

VanessaPocock

My preference would be to customize the entire link. Both options seem ok, but ideally if we have a customize URL that we want people to use, always having to set-up a redirect seems a waste. So self-hosting an entire link, would make the most sense.

ChrisJones3

Hi Owen, it might worth taking a look at how unbounce.com host a 'subdomain' of your organisations site to host landing pages. E.g. If I create a landing page with unbounce.com, I can host it on my site by adding the suffix pages. to my domain. e.g. www.pages.domain.org.

You just add a CNAME tag (I think) to the domain, and then the landing pages become customisable, and look like they're being hosted on the organisations sit.

For us, it's so easy to add a redirect to our, that it's only the domain that is the main issue (although both would be nice).

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