Latest Contributions by OwenGeo

The word count and other summary information about a story is available in the Story insights panel. To show this panel, click Insights in the story builder header. For more information, see Using the ArcGIS StoryMaps AI assistant to your benefit.     ... View more

@Sarahjoy94 - I'm sorry you are having an issue with the buttons in your story. There are no restrictions on student accounts that would cause this to happen, and this sounds like a different issue than the one reported above.  The behavior you describe is what happens when there is no URL saved for the button. If you hover over the button and the "Open in a new tab" tool is disabled that means there is no URL saved (see screenshot). After you click the Edit/pencil icon and paste in the URL, make sure you press ENTER to save the pasted URL. Let us know if that works for you.   ... View more

@SaraJL - The update to the style of the button mentioned above was deployed in yesterday's release. We are also testing some additional changes to try to further minimize the chances of lost work: 1) We are looking to add more friction and prevent accidentally clicking the wrong button. The overwrite option will not be clickable unless you first check the acknowledgement box. 2) We are also working on detecting "stale" builder sessions. This is a browser tab where someone has the builder open that they leave and come back to after a period of time. In those cases we'll require the author to exit the builder if changes have been made by others (so they won't even see an option to overwrite changes). They can then reopen the story in builder to load the latest draft so they can continue editing from there. Please let us know your thoughts on these changes. ... View more

@Crystal_Cowardin - We made a change in yesterday's update that may resolve the issue you were seeing in your accessibility testing. As mentioned above, the story you shared is no longer available for us to test on. Please reshare the story and/or re-run your tests and let us know if the issues are resolved. ... View more

At this time, we do not have plans to make scale bar colors specifically customizable. But the scale bar colors are currently derived from your theme colors, and there is already a good amount of flexibility available to choose colors when you create a theme. We did, however, notice the scale bar text color was a bit lighter than the rest of the text in the credits bar, so in yesterday's release, the colors for the scale bar were adjusted to increase contrast. Please let us know if this improvement helps resolve some of the issues you noticed. ... View more

@DavidMedeiros  - Thanks for sharing this idea. I think you can accomplish something similar to the experience you are looking for by using actions. Actions are buttons or links that you add to the narrative panel that trigger a change the media panel. They are basically like map choreography (the frozen media panel and scrolling narrative panel) without the scrolling. You can read more about actions here: Supercharge your stories with media actions Let us know if this works for you. ... View more

@BenjaminMittler - You mentioned the slide numbers are primarily so you can direct your workshop attendees to a specific slide. Are attendees following along with the briefing open in their browser? If so, the current slide number is shown in the toolbar at the top of the screen when someone views a briefing. Can attendees use that to go to the slide number you direct them to?   ... View more

Sorry, I thought this idea was in the StoryMaps board, but I see now that it is in the ArcGIS Online board, so am reopening. ... View more

@ZachLampert - When you publish a StoryMap, there is a QR code shown that will open your item, and the Copy link button on this screen provides a short URL for you to share, like this one: https://arcg.is/1man49 A version of this screen is also available by clicking the Share button in the header at the top right of the screen when viewing any publicly published story map (unless the author has turned it off in the settings). Please review these capabilities and let us know if they meet your needs.     ... View more

@Crystal_Cowardin - When you get a chance, could you please reshare your story so we can test our fix? ... View more

@MikeHorree - Thanks for posting this idea. We are considering adding the ability for authors to upload icons, but we don't have it on our roadmap for a specific time just yet. Do you have very specific icons that you need (for example custom icons from your organization), or does the picker just not have the ones you are looking for? We are already working on adding more icons/categories to this set. Please let us know what you need and we can try to fill your request. ... View more

Thanks for posting, @KelseyBang-Olsen. Could you share a bit more about your idea so we can better understand what you are looking for? Are you envisioning the pinned section of text to be in the side panel of the tour or would it be be above the tour block (spanning the entire width of the browser window)? Have you seen how the categorized tour layout works? It has its own title and description and navigation bar. The text isn't pinned, but let us know if that is similar to what you mean. Here's an example of a categorized tour you can review and some blogs with more info: PUBLIC ART IN KITCHENER Use — or create — a feature service to build a map tour in ArcGIS StoryMaps Create a data-driven map tour   ... View more

@AR7 - All content does need to be loaded in the print preview for it to appear in the PDF, so you do need to wait and/or scroll through the story to make sure the content is there before printing. One thing you can do to improve how the dashboard looks in the PDF is to add an alternative image, which will be shown in place of the live dashboard in print preview. To do this, hover over the dashboard and click Options. In the Small screens section, click Image and upload a screenshot of the dashboard. This should also make it load a bit faster since print preview doesn't have to load the live dashboard. If you do not want the dashboard to be shown as an image on small screens, just switch back to one of the other small screen options after you create the PDF. (Either way, this change wouldn't be visible to readers unless you publish). ... View more