idea Allow Images and Short Videos/GIFs in Pro Tasks in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Allow Images and Short Videos/GIFs in Pro Tasks

Anonymous User — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:45:28 GMT

Pro Tasks are fantastic and useful, but the instructions can be hard to follow for more visual users. It would be great if we could include images/screenshots, and/or short videos/GIFs in the instruction section to show users how to use the tools. Please consider adding that capability in the Tasks instructions section! This would save time for both the users and for the Task creators, because they would be able to follow instructions much easier with a visual, and the tasks are generally created as a way to allow the support team to have more time to assist with new and unique problems by providing a tool to users for common tasks/issues.

Re: Allow Images and Short Videos/GIFs in Pro Tasks

Joseph_Kinyon — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:51:17 GMT

I would like to pile on this good idea.
Having visual examples to complement written instructions is rather handy.

Implement HTML or other pop-up quality code.
We can insert links to images and videos, which is great

Adding images inline seems like a logical evolution of the Task Designer's abilities.

Holding a user's had through a task to reinforce decisions with clear examples in the Task Pane would be a welcome imrovement to this feature.

Re: Allow Images and Short Videos/GIFs in Pro Tasks - Status changed to: Under Consideration

AmirBar-Maor — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 12:39:51 GMT

Embedding pictures and/or videos can get complicated... where are those stored? what formats are supported? encodings? players? size setting and constraints, play settings, capabilities... but we know we want to support it.

Re: Allow Images and Short Videos/GIFs in Pro Tasks

m3 — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 17:43:36 GMT

I'm confused why you are asking us how to store images in your software. If tasks are in a db, images could be blobs, otherwise they could go in the directory where the tasks are stored on our local drives. I don't know how you are storing tasks.

You can limit it to PNG, JPG, GIF (animated), or whatever you decide. If I were king for a day that's what I would do and if people want to embed videos, I would give them an embed option since there are too many codecs to support.

Obviously links to external images would work too but not everyone has hosting abilities so just basic links to network storages or cloud storage images would work too.

Re: Allow Images and Short Videos/GIFs in Pro Tasks

KoryKramer — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 21:25:32 GMT

@m3 Thanks for the comment! Be sure to add your kudos to the idea to show your support!

Re: Allow Images and Short Videos/GIFs in Pro Tasks

AmirBar-Maor — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 07:53:31 GMT

@m3 The intent was not to confuse you but to:

Identify business requirements (storage, format)
Show that while the problem sounds simple its implementation is not.

Thanks for your comments - they are valuable to us.

Amir

Add Image Option to Tasks

SeraMay01 — Tue, 28 May 2024 20:09:01 GMT

It would be great if there was an option to add an image in the description of a task in the instructions area to assist in tasks that involve the user to do more than press a button. Or even a small video to show how it is done.