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Allow both images and videos to be included in a Gallery

AmyJewitt

I think it would be really helpful if the Image Gallery could be updated to be a "Gallery" and allow both images and videos to be included in it.

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oevans_storymaps

Thanks for posting this idea @AmyJewitt. Could you please share a little more about what you'd like to do with a video gallery? We haven't added this year because we have some concerns about the performance a video gallery. Loading up to 12 videos at the same time might create challenging situations.

Could you answer a few questions and maybe provide some examples of use cases you're thinking about so we can better understand your needs?

How many videos would you like to have in a gallery?
Would you like to mix and match images and videos or would each gallery contain the same type of media?
Would you want them all to be playing at the same time, or would having a single image playing at once meet your needs?
Are the videos you'd like to add to a gallery files you'd upload or are they already hosted in another service like YouTube or Vimeo?

AmyJewitt

Hi @OwenGeo,

Happy to answer your questions. See my notes below:

How many videos would you like to have in a gallery? I don't have a specific number in mind right now; it would just be nice to have the ability to add both photos and videos together in the same Gallery in a StoryMap.
Would you like to mix and match images and videos, or would each gallery contain the same type of media? I would like the ability to mix and match. Or - have a gallery just of images, or just of videos. Options are good! This could all be achieved (the way I envision it) by just replacing the "Image Gallery" option with a "Gallery" option that can insert both photos and videos.
Would you want them all to be playing at the same time, or would having a single image playing at once meet your needs? I would want the video files to remain "off" until a user clicked the video's play button. But to better answer your question, I would want only one video playing at a time.
Are the videos you'd like to add to a gallery files you'd upload or are they already hosted in another service like YouTube or Vimeo? I could see this going both ways; wanting to use a video that I upload, and/or using videos from YouTube and Vimeo.

AmyJewitt

An example use case would be in the following StoryMap I recently made titled "2024 Invasive Species Scavenger Hunt":

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0c555d18aee6490b99cfa31c133520f9#:~:text=in%20this%20StoryMap.-,BAMBOO,-Bamboo

The link I'm providing takes you to a specific section in the StoryMap that describes an invasive species (bamboo) that has an Image Gallery right below the heading "BAMBOO". I would love if this Image Gallery could instead be a Gallery that would allow me to include not only photos, but relevant videos as well (such as those that I include further down in the Bamboo section - "Videos & News Media").

ChrisWozniak

Another possibility for the "Would you want them all to be playing at the same time, or would having a single image playing at once meet your needs?" question could be that the videos are stagnant, but hovering over them plays a preview gif, then clicking actually loads the full video w/ sound. Like @AmyJewitt said, more options are better, and the perhaps the users could toggle a checkbox within the gallery's settings for whether or not the videos are even playing at all — until they are clicked on.

AmyJewitt

Thanks for your suggestion, @ChrisWozniak! I agree with your idea.

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