Latest Contributions by OwenGeo

@BenjaminMittler - Thanks for the suggestion. We will look into this. Just a caveat, configuring an image with a link would eliminate the ability for the image to be expanded, similar to how things work in a story. As workaround, you can add a caption to an image in briefings (in the image options), and the caption can be formatted with a link. So that might work as an alternate treatment to associate a link with an image in a compact way. ... View more

Great suggestions @SaraJL and @JonathanMcD! We are considering bringing over to map tour the same toggle that already exists for other maps that allows you to disable all navigation. If this happens, I agree with @NicoleJohnson that this should not be thought of as a "security feature" to obfuscate exact locations; it would be more for authors to tailor the experience for readers. ... View more

@JonathanMcD - Thanks for posting your questions about the behavior you are seeing when adding ArcGIS apps to StoryMaps. At this time, only apps shared with everyone are shown in the item browser you are referring to. The reason for this is because the ArcGIS StoryMaps builders do not yet have sharing checks for apps and their content. However, with the recent addition of tracking of these types of item dependencies and relationships in ArcGIS (see Discover How Your Layers, Scenes, Maps, and Apps Connect), we are actively working on bringing these types of checks to ArcGIS StoryMaps and plan to include publicly-shared items here in an update coming later this year. For now, if you want to embed an app that is not shared with everyone, you can use the Embed block and paste in the app's URL (as it seems you and your colleagues have already been doing). Of course, the reader must have an ArcGIS account that has access to the app if it is not shared with everyone even if it is added to a StoryMap that is shared with everyone. They will be prompted to sign in to see the app. I also want to mention that there is no difference between adding an app via the ArcGIS app or Embed option, both behave exactly the same way once they are added. The ArcGIS app pathway just provides a way to browse your content and pick an item as opposed to having to find its link/URL. > As can be seen in the below screenshot, even when filtering by a specific group and type, the listing pulls back way more items than it should, but also completely omits certain dashboards, not all, and other elements. Regarding this part, I'm not able to validate whether you are seeing more/fewer items than you should based on the screenshot because I don't have access to the group you used to filter. I did some testing on my end and I am seeing the items filtered correctly in my groups. Is the group you are using public? If so, can you share a link to the group page here so we can take a look? > All they want to do is replace their embedded dashboards in their monitoring storymaps (they really dislike the disconnected prompt to always sign in). Could you share a little more about this? Do you have a screenshot of the prompt you are referring to and could you provide how your colleague would like this to work? ... View more

@ColinBergmann_ct - Oh, I almost forgot! We found a workaround you can use to get the behavior you are looking for if you don't want to wait until November. If you add a URL parameter to your Web Experience links you can "trick" the embedded app into thinking something has changed so it refreshes between consecutive slides. Parameters must be added before hashes (#) in a properly constructed URL. In the examples below I'm just adding a parameter of slide=1 to the first url and slide=2 to the second. You'll also need a ? before the parameter... https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/38215638af2049929e22afabc512fa98?slide=1#data_s=id%3AdataSource_2-19f37ff5488-layer-15%3A293192&widget_8=layer_visibility:%7B%22widget_8-dataSource_2%22%3A%7B%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37ff5488-layer-15%22%3Atrue%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f24476d4c-layer-10%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37ab1d43-layer-11%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37abbe7a-layer-12%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37ac3550-layer-13%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37ad3f4d-layer-14%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-194d1b0b3f2-layer-7%22%3Afalse%7D%7D&zoom_to_selection=true https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/38215638af2049929e22afabc512fa98?slide=2#data_s=id%3AdataSource_2-19f24476d4c-layer-10%3A293192&widget_8=layer_visibility:%7B%22widget_8-dataSource_2%22%3A%7B%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37ff5488-layer-15%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f24476d4c-layer-10%22%3Atrue%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37ab1d43-layer-11%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37abbe7a-layer-12%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37ac3550-layer-13%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37ad3f4d-layer-14%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-194d1b0b3f2-layer-7%22%3Afalse%7D%7D&zoom_to_selection=true https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/38215638af2049929e22afabc512fa98?a=1#data_s=id%3AdataSource_2-19f37ff5488-layer-15%3A293192&widget_8=layer_visibility:%7B%22widget_8-dataSource_2%22%3A%7B%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37ff5488-layer-15%22%3Atrue%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f24476d4c-layer-10%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37ab1d43-layer-11%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37abbe7a-layer-12%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37ac3550-layer-13%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37ad3f4d-layer-14%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-194d1b0b3f2-layer-7%22%3Afalse%7D%7D&zoom_to_selection=true https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/38215638af2049929e22afabc512fa98?a=2#data_s=id%3AdataSource_2-19f24476d4c-layer-10%3A293192&widget_8=layer_visibility:%7B%22widget_8-dataSource_2%22%3A%7B%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37ff5488-layer-15%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f24476d4c-layer-10%22%3Atrue%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37ab1d43-layer-11%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37abbe7a-layer-12%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37ac3550-layer-13%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-19f37ad3f4d-layer-14%22%3Afalse%2C%22widget_8-dataSource_2-194d1b0b3f2-layer-7%22%3Afalse%7D%7D&zoom_to_selection=true   You can use anything for the parameter (like slide=1, slide=2, etc. or s=1, s=2, etc.). You can even use different parameters. As long as something is different about the parameter and/or its value it will force the app to refresh. It would be best to make sure what you are using is NOT one of the supported URL parameters to ensure you're not creating any unwanted effects. ... View more

@ColinBergmann_ct - We talked to the Experience Builder team and they have identified a bug on their end that is causing this. They've indicated they will address the issue in their next release in November 2026. An internal issue has been logged, but if you would like to formally track this, you can submit an incident with Esri Support. ... View more

@IrenaKřečková - Adding images to the tour place description isn't available at this time. We will continue to monitor this idea for votes to see if adding multiple images via URL fields in a feature layer is something more people want as we evaluate future enhancements to map tour. For now, you can add multiple images to each point of a feature layer as attachments to show multiple images for a map tour location. ... View more

@ColinBergmann_ct - Thank you for the helpful story that shows and explains the issue. We will look into this and post back here when we have more information. ... View more

Yep, @JonM32 is correct. The attribution bubbles only persist if you click the (i) icon. If you do that, you can then click any links that are inside them. ... View more

@Sarah_Willett -- I'm sorry your colleague is experiencing this issue. I would have them contact Esri Support for the best and most effective troubleshooting for an issue like this. If you are at the conference this week, there is a technical support island in the Expo where you can get help. ... View more

Thank you for the feedback about marking this idea as implemented. We do understand everyone's needs have not yet been met and want to reassure you that closing this idea was not an attempt to say we are done working in this area. Our intent in closing it is 1) to educate people on this thread that much progress has been made in the area of taking StoryMaps content offline, and 2) to ensure that moving forward we collect the latest and best information about what the community is still looking for in ArcGIS StoryMaps. This thread was started in 2017, which was several years before ArcGIS StoryMaps was even released (the original request was for classic Esri Story Maps such as journal, cascade, etc.). Most of the comments posted after ArcGIS StoryMaps became available were posted before briefings or other types of StoryMaps (beyond "stories") were available. Many things have changed over the nine years this thread has been active. Additionally, many of the comments in this thread are asking for very different things, so for us to know what to focus on it's critical to understand the community's current needs and to be able to isolate the support for different use cases. The use cases mentioned in this thread that I anticipate are at least partially addressed with the current functionality include: The museum that wants to provide tablets to visitors with info about historic sites The land conservation trust and the nature preserve taking maps and information into the field Several emergency management use cases (many emergency management, disaster response, public safety, and law enforcement organizations had been asking for a way to create slide-based content and this was one of the main drivers behind why briefings were developed) Providing content on airplanes for VIPs (executives typically prefer slide-based content to scrolling article formats) Most of the early messages on this thread focus on these field operations or low-connectivity situations, and those are the the use cases that are addressed with the current offline briefings feature. However, many of the more recent comments have transitioned to more of an "archiving" use case in academia, which is a completely different workflow that would be addressed by a different set of features. I don't mean to make extra work for others, so I'm happy to create a few new ideas for people to vote for and link back to messages on this thread. Closing this idea as implemented does not mean the thoughts and messages that are already here will be lost or ignored. It just means we are redirecting where future votes and comments should go. Here are the additional ideas I think I am seeing: Provide an offline capability for StoryMap stories (similar to the existing capability for StoryMap briefings). This is also a field operations or low-connectivity use case. Provide a way to "package" a StoryMap in a file-based format for archival purposes such that it can be viewed without any connection to the web. This could be for any type of StoryMap—including a story, briefing, frame, or collection—but it would be good to know which is/are the most important. Please let me know if these capture the aspects of the other requests on this thread, and I can create these ideas so others can comment on them and upvote them. This will help us accurately track the support for each so we can better plan and prioritize the work required to implement these features. ... View more

In the last few years, ArcGIS StoryMaps has added offline capabilities... Using ArcGIS StoryMaps, you can now create slide-based presentations called briefings. Readers can view briefings with the ArcGIS StoryMaps Briefings app. If the author configures a briefing for offline use, readers can view it with the app even while disconnected. The briefings app is available for iOS/iPadOS, Android, and Windows. For more information about this capability, see the resources at the link below: Get started with briefings in ArcGIS StoryMaps We are going to close this idea as implemented given the availability of the current offline capabilities as they meet many of the needs mentioned here. However, there were lots of different ideas and requests in this thread, and we realize the current capabilities do not address all of them. If there are additional capabilities or use cases that you would still like to see related to offline capabilities in ArcGIS StoryMaps, please submit those as additional ideas so they can be evaluated for future consideration. ... View more