Latest Contributions by PeterKnoop

(I cannot kudo this Idea with its current status of Needs Clarification, but I would like to.) In particular we would be interested in custom icon support so that we use icons designed as part of a projects overall design theme. Often that theme encompasses more than just a StoryMap too, and we would like the ability to carry the theme throughout any ArcGIS components that are used, including StoryMaps.

Check out the new Outline panel for ArcGIS StoryMaps introduced in the May 2026 release.

A group's name can change over the group's lifespan. Relying on the group's ID would be more robust. Using the group ID probably wouldn't fit into your workflow as well, however, unless there is a point at which you can use Python or Arcade to convert the ID to the current name.

@OwenGeo, yes, it would be great if the replacement item workflow was adapted to become a uniform solution for this kind of reidirect capability for any item type, whether it is an item type being officially retired by Esri, an item a user or organization is retiring/replacing, etc. I am keeping my eye on these ArcGIS Online Ideas: Option to Redirect Applications that have been 'Retired' (2016-06-16) Replacement Items (2026-03-10) Redirect Any Item to a Replacement Item (2026-03-18)

@OwenGeo to clarify, this use case is about ArcGIS StoryMaps item types. As far as I can tell the replacement item workflow is only accessible when you have a retired item type, such as a Classic Esri StoryMap, and is not available for an ArcGIS StoryMap item type?

Currently you can specify a story URL that a user should be directed to when viewing a StoryMap item. This is in a StoryMaps' Item detail view, under Settings, StoryMap story, URL. It enables you to redirect users who are opening a URL you have previously published to a different StoryMap, at a different URL. This setting is honored when you goto the story’s view URL by opening it in your browser, when you click on the View story button on the story’s Item details Overview page, and when you select View story from the item's More actions menu in the Content view. This setting is not honored, however, when you are on the ArcGIS StoryMaps Content page, click on a story’s More actions menu, and select View. In that case, it still takes you to original StoryMap. I would like to see the latter case changed, and it to would take you to the StoryMap that is configured as the one to be viewed. If I want to get to the original story for some reason, I would select Edit instead.

Please add support for saving a dark themed StoryMap to a PDF with its intended dark theme appearance preserved. Currently when you use the StoryMaps' Print Preview feature it converts dark themed stories to a light theme. Presumably this is done to save toner or ink when sending the story to a printer. If the goal is to save the story to a PDF, and use it electronically, rather than sending it a printer, then one may want to have the PDF produced using the story's intended dark theme. In many browsers, using the built-in Print Preview functionality supports this with an option like "Background graphics" (Google Chrome). If enabled, then a dark background is carried through to the PDF, while when disabled, a dark background is replaced with transparent/white. ArcGIS StoryMaps, however, force the change from dark to white backgrounds before the browser's Print Preview is invoked, so one currently cannot use options like Background graphics to preserve the dark theme appearance of a StoryMap in a PDF. Perhaps as part of the StoryMaps' Print Preview step, an option could be offered to enable preserving a story's theme?

As of the March 2022 ArcGIS Online Update you DO NOT need to grant the administrative privilege for "View all" (Allow member to view all content within your organization) for the Reassign content/Receive content privileges to work. See Transferring ArcGIS Online content between members in an organization.

‎04-24-2026

If you can, I would recommend using GLB (or gITF) instead of OBJ for better performance. I believe 3DF Zephyr will output GLB. For reference, I have worked with GLB files approaching 200MB in size, geologic outcrops spanning meters, with sub-cm detail in the textures, and still had decent performance in Pro on a mid-range GIS workstation. Once georeferenced, I often convert the 3D Objects to SLPKs for more efficient rendering, and to share via ArcGIS Online.

‎04-23-2026

Currently the Description field for an ArcGIS StoryMaps Collection loads collapsed. We would like the option to have it expanded on initial load. This would be helpful where there is some short introductory text (perhaps upto 1024 characters), which the authors want to ensure is displayed to the user; short, but longer than would fit in the summary or byline fields.

‎04-23-2026

@PeterGebhardt during your photogrammetry step, are you able to output your desired content as a textured 3D object (e.g., a .glb, .gltf, .fbx, .obj), or other file format supported by ArcGIS? If so, you could place it as a 3D object in a Local scene in Pro, alongside your other GIS data. You can then use the regular feature editing tools (i.e., move, scale, rotate) to position it correctly in the real-world, relative to your other data, such as your control points, essentially 3D georeferencing it.

‎04-21-2026

The role based privilege for AI assistants is a General privilege. You will not see the setting for it, however, unless you have already allowed the use of AI Assistants in your org (Organization --> Settings --> AI assistants): Once you have enabled the above, then you should see the Use AI assistants privilege right at the top of the General Privileges when you are defining privileges for a custom member role:

‎04-21-2026

@OwenGeo we have a case and bug open as well, BUG-000184405. After following your steps closely, I can conform that I am able to trigger the notification by having both users attempt to make changes. So the admin privilege observation maybe a red herring. For reference, these are the admin privileges that we grant to the custom role given to all of our typical users: portal:admin:createUpdateCapableGroup -- Groups > Create with update capabilities portal:admin:manageEnterpriseGroups -- Groups > Link to organization-specific group portal:admin:reassignGroups -- Groups > Reassign ownership Was it always the case that both users had to make an edit? Around here our recollection -- maybe flawed -- is that the notification used to appear without both users having to attempt to make changes?

‎04-20-2026

@OwenGeo The issue is happening for us as well with "regular" accounts. Our "regular" accounts, however, do have the "admin" privilege, through a custom Role, which enables them to create Shared Update groups on their own. Is the presence of that privilege perhaps triggering this issue?

‎04-16-2026

I can also confirm it is still working as expected in StoryMaps on one of our ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 instances, so the issue seems to be limited to ArcGIS Online.

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Latest Contributions by PeterKnoop

Re: Possibility to upload your own icon in an Infographic in Storymaps

Re: ArcGIS StoryMaps- Ability to Group or Move StoryMap Elements In Bulk

Re: Organisation Reports - Items : Include Group Names

Re: Honor StoryMap URL redirect whenever going to view story

Re: Honor StoryMap URL redirect whenever going to view story

Honor StoryMap URL redirect whenever going to view story

Support saving dark themed StoryMap as PDF with dark theme preserved

Re: Allow Users to Change Content Ownership without the View All Content Privilege Enabled

Re: Georeference an image in 3D (VCS)

Ability for Collection Description to start out expanded

Re: Georeference an image in 3D (VCS)

Re: AI assistants settings for custom roles in AGOL

Re: Add a lock and alert messages to StoryMap projects when they are being accessed

Re: Add a lock and alert messages to StoryMap projects when they are being accessed

Re: Add a lock and alert messages to StoryMap projects when they are being accessed

Honor StoryMap URL redirect whenever going to view...

Support saving dark themed StoryMap as PDF with da...

Re: Georeference an image in 3D (VCS)

Re: Georeference an image in 3D (VCS)

Ability for Collection Description to start out ex...

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