Latest Contributions by AGP

I'm posting this as an idea because I cannot find how to remove the gap between immersive blocks in a storymap, but maybe there's something I missed and it's actually possible. Let me explain. Let's say my storymap's background color is light green and I add a number of sidecar blocks with a different background color or with a background image with another color range. In my layout I always see a light green (the background color) stripe between each sidecar block which ruins the whole look and flow of the story. It would be great if blocks could 'touch' each other and you could simply add as many space as you want between them if that's what you need. ... View more

Attribution text is now limited to 100 characters and often that's not enough.  When images do not have a title I add text about the who, what, where & when of the image (and afterwards the name of owner of the media). Sometimes it's not easy to make it fit in 100 characters. Through my experience 120-125 characters would be more than enough. A small increase but a great improvement, with no negative impact on the stroymap navigation.  ... View more

January's update has addressed many things but this one is not working for me: Pasted text preserves its formatting and structure. Pasting text from a Word document inserts lots of line breaks. Didn't have this problem before January's update but maybe I'm doing something wrong. Pasted text from Notepad works so there must be something about Word formatting.  For more details, I've noticed a line break is always inserted after the first word of the pasted paragraph. Can't see a pattern for the rest of line breaks. To be precise it's the space between words what's replaced with a line break. ... View more

Working with ArcGIS Online 9.4 and Portal 10.8.1. We created a web map in ArcGIS Online with private Portal data and we are using it in an ArcGIS Online dashboard.  Don't ask about the reasons it is like this. That's something out of my control. The fact is that I want to use a data expression in an indicator widget using that same Portal data but it's not working: FeatureSetByPortalItem function returns this error: "NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource." This video (see minute 30:36) suggests you can use global variable $map_itemID to access data referenced in the dashboard, which has sense since all widgets use the layers in the Map widgets inside the dashboard. But I don't see that global variable in the arcade editor and anyway it's not working. My first question is: is it possible to access private Portal data from a data expression in an AGOL dashboard? And second: is there any map/data requirements that will make the $map global variable available in the arcade editor? ... View more

I need to store the street name (and any other address information) of every new created point in ArcGIS Pro into a field of the feature layer. At first we had a polyline feature layer with address information and it was easy but now users are asking me to use the ArcGIS Online World Geocoding Service or any locator to do reverse geocoding. I don't see how to do it using arcade. Is it even possible? Is there any other option? ... View more

The multiple-device preview option is such a great idea to easily check how the story will be displayed on different devices, but it arises a new need and it's that of having separate options to configure your story for different screen sizes since the default options don't always work for your needs. The most critical options are those related to map scale. For example, a map using feature or label visibility based on scale will not show properly on smaller screens. And sometimes features  simply look too small on phone devices. As an example, this is how a map with both feature and label visibility based on scale looks on a desktop browser and on a phone. I would need to (1) zoom in the map for phone screens and (2) set a simpler symbology for point features for that map scale. Right now I can configure feature and label visibility and symbology in my map to work for desktop and phone browser, but I cannot configure a different scale or extent for each. My idea is to have a tab inside the map's options to preview and configure the map scale and extent for small screens. It would also help to easily see what changes we have to make to web maps to adjust feature and label visibility to make them look properly in both screen sizes. ... View more