Latest Contributions by RupertEssinger

I'm not able to reproduce this on Firefox on Windows 10. I'm editing a Map Journal in ArcGIS Online with 20+ sections. The Organize dialog is slow to open, but it does open OK for me. I'm using up-to-date Firefox Quantum 64 bit. There used to be a bug with this button where it gave a script error in Firefox if there were more than 10 sections, but that was fixed in our Dec 2016 ArcGIS Online release. Are you perhaps using Map Journal in a much older release of ArcGIS Enterprise that doesn't have that fix? Rupert ... View more

Hi Sergio There's not a numeric limit to the size of a Shortlist (except in terms of what you think your readers/audience can handle). However a Shortlist with the number of points yours has per tab may not perform well, and the error you are seeing may be related to that.  But has this Shortlist perhaps been moved to a different owner by using the Change Owner button on the item details page in ArcGIS Online. If a Shortlist or Map Tour is moved to a different owner without the underlying web map in which the story stores its places also being moved to that new account, it can result in you not being able to save edits when you try and modify the story. That's the most common reason people get the 'Save failed, please try again' message when they try and save a Shortlist To make changes to a Shortlist or Map Tour, you need to be the owner of both the app and its associated web map, or be using an account, like an account with Admin access, that has permission to edit those two assets. See: Can't save changes to my Story Map Shortlist  ... View more

Hi, sorry about the issue. I suspect there may be an unsupported HTML tag in your Tour somewhere. See this FAQ: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/faq/#question32  You may need to delete the most recent point(s) you've added or quit without saving. For example you may have entered some HTML into the caption of one of your points that isn't supported, especially if you are using the option to upload images directly into the Map Tour Builder (because that option, as it writes to a feature service behind the scenes, supports a more restricted set of tags as you can read in that FAQ). The HTML you entered may display OK in the Builder and not look like it is an issue (such as if you embed audio in a tour created by uploading images) but it will give you that message when you try and save. So it many not be obvious what HTML the save is objecting to, because the Builder displays the HTML correctly.  Rupert ... View more

Good to know you tracked down the cause. I suspected that was one of the possible reasons for what was going on: web pages can be configured so they can't be embedded, and this is usually the underlying issue when Story Map authors aren't able to embed web content in stories. It's not a limitation of Story Maps: web content that is configured to prevent embedding can't be embedded in anything on the web. In your case it sounds like those pages were temporarily changed to be in that mode but have since been fixed to allow themselves to be embedded again. Rupert ... View more

If you are using Story Map Tour this could be an instance of this issue: Whenever I launch my web app, the screen just stops loading and goes grey?  It seems to affect Map Tours authored by manually creating a feature service using the Story Map Tour schema, instead of using a CSV file or building your Tour interactively in the Story Map Tour Builder.  Could you paste the link to your web map and your app (assuming they are shared publicly)? Rupert ... View more

We'd really recommend contacting Esri Tech Support about your data so they could walk through how best to display that data in an ArcGIS Online map. See also: Best practices for using layers in maps—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS  Rupert ... View more

See also this FAQ on the Story Maps website:  Who can edit my story map and is collaboration possible? > https://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/faq/#question16  ... View more

Thanks Adam ... View more

The &embed parameter is one we really should rename to be &hideheader to avoid confusion. When that is included in a URL of a story map (except for Map Journal and Cascade) the header is hidden, so it is useful if you are, say, embedding a Map Tour in a Map Journal and you don't want the Map Tour's header to be displayed because the side panel of that section of your Journal contains descriptive info about the embedded Tour, and the title and subtitle in the Tour's header would therefore just be unnecessary duplication. Hiding the header of a story embedded in another story also provides more space for the content in the embedded story.  For more info please see: https://community.esri.com/community/gis/web-gis/storymaps/blog/2016/06/06/arcgis-blog-embedding-story-maps-in-website   Rupert ... View more

Hi Megan I'm not super clear on your specific use case because in your Map Series, the main stage for each tab either shows a web map or, in the case of the second tab, an embedded Story Map Journal. None of your tabs are displaying a diagram as main stage content. However you are correct that the description panel is semi-transparent. To prevent an image such as a diagram or infographic from being displayed behind the description panel, try choosing the Center option for its position. This should prevent it from being displayed behind that panel. The Center option isn't available for web maps but it is available for web content you embed. Story Map Series doesn't have a true non-overlapping Side Panel option like Map Journal does. There's not a way to prevent web maps, images positioned with the 'fill' option, or other content that fills the tab main stage from appearing behind the description panel. You could remove the description panel for tabs with that kind of content, or just have a small description panel with just a bit of text. Another option would be to create a Map Journal with one section, that uses the Side Panel option to display your narrative text and diagram side by side without overlapping, and then embed that Story Map Journal in your Story Map Series. Hope that helps. Rupert ... View more

Hi, you would add that parameter to the URL that you use to launch your self-hosted story. It's not something you add into the index.html file of your self-hosted story map's code. So once you have set up your self-hosted story, if the URL of your story is, for example: https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2018/NACIS-2018/index.html  you could add the classicEmbedMode parameter to the end of that URL: https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2018/NACIS-2018/index.html?classicEmbedMode  to hide the embed bar when the story map is embedded in a web page or in another story map, such as a Story Map Series. Note that in the example above, classicEmbedMode is the first parameter in the URL, so it is preceded by the standard ? character. (If there are other parameters already in the URL, then the classicEmbedMode parameter you add at the end would be preceded with the standard & character, like in the example you see in the first reply in this thread). Rupert ... View more