Latest Contributions by StephenBeste

‎05-01-2018

Thank you all! As so often with ArcMap, there are several ways to do something. They all eluded me in this case. Playing around with all 3 suggestions, I find the last one from Abdullah Anter to be the easiest for me. It's a little more direct than the other two. But I so much appreciate the quick replies from all of you. -Steve

‎04-30-2018

I have an Excel table of points with X,Y coordinates. I imported it into ArcMap and created a feature class and then a map. All fine. Now I want to update the map by adding one more point, whose X,Y coordinates I have. But I don't want to re-import from Excel because that will create a NEW feature class, and I like the one I have and how it looks on the map (symbology, labels...). I don't want to have to re-do all that. Isn't there some way to add this one new feature to the existing feature class' attribute table? Of course, ArcMap would have to digest the X,Y coordinates that I typed in. How?

‎05-05-2017

After several back-and-forths with Esri tech support, the answer is still no. Specifically: Can they restore my old story map? No. Can they move my new story map to the old map's URL? No. Can they redirect the old short URL to the new story map's URL? Yes, but they're not willing to, absent a persuasive business case (read, not for a small customer like me). I'm a software developer myself. I understand the calculation and don't fault them for it, even as I'm disappointed. What I've learned out of this episode: Turn on Delete Protection as John Plunkett and Owen Evans suggest. The most valuable thing in the story map is not the story map itself but its URL, because the URL encapsulates all of the marketing you've done for your story map. The story map I can recreate; the marketing not so easily. Therefore, host the story map on your own server if you can (I have no server). That will give you control over the URL. Thank you, all.

‎05-02-2017

John, that's excellent advice. I didn't know the "Delete Protection" feature existed. It might have saved me.

‎05-01-2017

I had a Story Map at a particular Esri URL that was automatically assigned, say https:// <my account>.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=01878934bbab4430a8409389e9244cc0. Fine I foolishly deleted the Story Map on the ArcGIS Online My Contents page. Dumb! Not finding any way to restore the deleted Story Map, I re-created it. Fine. The new Story Map, of course, has its own new URL: https:// <my account>.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=90abfd6d1ff741c09ec446a559362b34. Fine. The problem is that I have lots of folks who have links or bookmarks to the deleted Story Map's URL. Those links no longer work. They certainly don't go to my replacement Story Map. 1 --> Is there any way to recover the deleted Story Map? 2 --> If not, how can I move my new Story Map to the old URL at Esri so that my users' links will still work? Thanks, Steve

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Re: How to add a new point to an existing attribute table, knowing lat

How to add a new point to an existing attribute table, knowing lat

Re: How to re-use the URL of a deleted Story Map

Re: How to re-use the URL of a deleted Story Map

How to re-use the URL of a deleted Story Map

Re: How to re-use the URL of a deleted Story Map

Re: How to add a new point to an existing attribut...

Re: How to re-use the URL of a deleted Story Map