Latest Contributions by PeterKnoop

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.

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.

@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.

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:

@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?

@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?

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.

@SaraJL I can confirm that is NOT currently working for us in ArcGIS Online. It has worked previously, however, so seems to be a new bug. From an early 2025 presentation I did, below is what the pop-up notification looked like at the time:

@AaronKoelker it was introduced back in August 2020, so if it isn't working now, I would suspect a bug was introduced, perhaps in the most recent (Feb 2026) release.

ArcGIS StoryMaps is supposed to provide a notification when someone else is already editing a story. "If you are editing an ArcGIS StoryMaps item at the same time as someone else, a notification will appear and display their name and how long ago their last change was made." (source) If you're not seeing such a notification, then perhaps you've uncovered a bug?

‎04-07-2026

I don't think the issue is with your code. Rather, I think you may have run into a bug with the ArcGIS API for Python, and you've correctly tracked down the Web Map as the culprit. The Web Map you are attempting to clone references a custom basemap, and I suspect there is a bug in the API that is getting triggered when it attempts to clone the Vector tile layers used in the custom basemap, which ends up hanging the process. Based on running into this elsewhere very recently, a quick workaround should be to set use_org_basemap = True for clone_items(). It will replace references to the custom basemap with your orgs default basemap. (If you really need the custom basemap, then should be able to recreate it on your destination org first, and then use item_mapping during the cloning of the StoryMap.

‎04-06-2026

ArcGIS Online provides a few ways of directly communicating important information to users: Notifications Information Banner Access Notice Currently a user is blocked from receiving messages via these channels, if they are inside the StoryMaps web space. If they are interacting solely with https://storymaps.arcgis.com, then there is no notification icon in the top-right, nor are users presented with the Information Banner or Access Notice when they visit or login to their organization. These are key messaging channels for alerting users to critical information. For example, in Higher-Education, it is an Esri recommended "best practice" to use use the Information Banner to alert students that should remember to proactively manage their content prior to graduation and losing access. The usefulness of these communication channels is also one of the rationales cited in the Idea, Consolidate Story Maps into ArcGIS Online. In the absence of incorporating the functionality of the StoryMaps landing page into ArcGIS Online, perhaps the ArcGIS Online communication channels could be integrated into the StoryMaps web space? This would enable administrators to still be able to reach users with important messages, even if the users are spending their time isolated in the StoryMaps web space. (The same problem exists with other products using siloed web spaces, such as https://experience.arcgis.com/ and https://survey123.arcgis.com/, however, it is much less likely that people using those tools are not also visiting pages in their ArcGIS Online organization, and seeing the messaging there.)

‎04-02-2026

There are workarounds, however, it would be nice if Item export() supported this directly.

‎03-24-2026

I would also add the use case of needing to redirect users when content is moved between ArcGIS Online organizations and/or Enterprise portals. If the initial URL was widely circulated and used, it would be helpful if a redirect could be provided for folks visiting that URL, which would take them to the new version of the item at its new location.

‎03-20-2026

@JackDrost it is a zip file. If you manually open it in something like 7-Zip, then it will figure it out. Otherwise, you can always replace the suffix ".contentexport" with ".zip", and use your favorite method for zip files.

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Latest Contributions by PeterKnoop

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

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

Re: cloning a public story map with the 2.4.2 Python API, issues

Support ArcGIS Online system communication channels (e.g., Information Banner) for StoryMaps

Re: Exclude attachments when exporting to geodatabase

Re: Redirect Any Item to a Replacement Item

Re: Content Migration item types, and comparison of .epk (Rest API) vs API for Python

Re: Georeference an image in 3D (VCS)

Re: Georeference an image in 3D (VCS)

Ability for Collection Description to start out ex...

Re: How does keep track of changes to the data wor...

Re: Updated list of user types from gis.users.lice...

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