Multiple feature layers in Shortlist seperated by tab?

Question

I use the Shortlist app as a monthly highlight of blooms at our gardens, and I have been testing new possible features.

I had the idea to illustrate large areas of plants as polygon feature layers. Of course, plants will change every month, so I cannot just use the same polygons for an entire year  Before I spend too much time down a path that may not work I thought I would ask:

Is there a way to edit the source code to define a filter for what layers are shown in each tab?

Related: If it is possible, would it work better to have a different feature layer for each month or to have one feature layer with a tab_name column to separate in the same way as the point layer?

Hopefully I explain this well enough.

Kelly S.

RupertEssinger · Answer

Here's a Story Map Journal about parks and different locations in those spaces that I think is a really good pattern. The authors used story actions in each section to let people browse different locations in each park.

Wellington's Treasured Spaces /  Mahere Whenua Kura o Pōneke

http://wcc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=cc9b48a06b324b538bec40d1b221e48d

Also perhaps browse some of the story maps that have been created about botanical gardens.  Here's  an ArcGIS Online search that pulls some of them up, sorted by number of views:

https://www.arcgis.com/home/search.html?q=story%20map%20botanical%20garden&t=content&focus=applications&start=1&sortOrde…

Rupert

RupertEssinger · Answer

Hi Kelly

See this post for info about showing multiple photos per place (not possible yet):
Add more images/video to Shortlist Story Map

That enhancement is down the road still. There are no plans to add a splash page to Shortlist.

I would definitely not try and embed one story map inside another for what you are describing. Your project sounds like it would be better to keep things really simple.

Rupert

KellyShunn · Answer

Robert,

I have been working with the old and the beta shortlist app for over a year now, and I am familiar with the builder features. The original iteration of this web app used some custom style coding and was hosted on our server, so planning to do that again would not be a large problem.

The story map series would not work for the purpose because two important features (large images and geolocation) would be lost. Either I keep the images by embedding the shortlist app into map series and lose geolocation or I just use the map in the map series and then the only view of pictures is through the small popups.

I appreciate any coding tips you can send. I understand if my request is difficult to complete, it was worth asking or I would have never known the limits.

In case it cannot be done, I have one more question: Will there there an update to the Shortlist beta app that would allow multiple pictures per point? Or an update to add a splash page?

My thinking is, if I cannot illustrate on the map that an area should be explored, then the ability to have multiple images or a splash page could show a screenshot of a map or a zoomed out picture of the many species in bloom in an area. All this is to hopefully encourage guests to wander through areas they might not have explored.

Thank you for the help and sparking some new ideas,

Kelly