idea Please Add Undo Option to New Story Map Builder in ArcGIS StoryMaps Ideas

Please Add Undo Option to New Story Map Builder

HelenJohnson — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 18:45:33 GMT

Now that the Story Map Builder has auto save, if something iis accidentally deleted, there is no way to undo that action. Adding an undo option would help reduce frustration and lost work.story maps builder next gen story map story maps beta

Re: Please Add Undo Option to New Story Map Builder

HelenJohnson — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:03:31 GMT

This is the same as another idea: https://community.esri.com/ideas/17017 that didn't come up in the original search

Re: Please Add Undo Option to New Story Map Builder

Anonymous User — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:13:12 GMT

I lost everything I just worked so hard on because there is no UNDO button!!! When I went to delete one slide in the sidecar it deleted every slide and all of the text and links that went with it. UGH!

Re: Please Add Undo Option to New Story Map Builder

RobertAbugel1 — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 20:01:01 GMT

For small things ctrl z works.

Re: Please Add Undo Option to New Story Map Builder

DavidSimduwa_Alsina — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 22:16:14 GMT

I think undo should be added to the story maps, mistakes or adjustments can easily be made and it will make it a lot easier.

Re: Please Add Undo Option to New Story Map Builder

MattKaminski — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 14:54:25 GMT

I've deleted a slide show more than twice by accident because there's no good way delete images from slide shows. This is a great product but there are some small things that are ridiculously frustrating. Having an undo button would make this much easier to work with.

Re: Please Add Undo Option to New Story Map Builder

geodoozer — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 07:51:49 GMT

I support the idea to

Add undo
Or add the ability to turn off Autosave!

In the past, like using Cascade, I could create several sections of story map, see if I like them, then choose to save or not, or even I think, save as. Autosave prevents me from doing this and I found it very hard to even undo the last action. This reduced my confidence, especially when I had my work 98% complete, I could easily have made a mistake that would have jeopardised a whole section!

Re: Please Add Undo Option to New Story Map Builder

Anonymous User — Mon, 03 May 2021 05:52:53 GMT

I strongly support this idea, having just lost some work that can't be recovered due to Ctrl+Z not being available in Story Maps.

Re: Please Add Undo Option to New Story Map Builder - Status changed to: In Product Plan

OwenGeo — Tue, 04 May 2021 14:35:32 GMT

Re: Please Add Undo Option to New Story Map Builder

OwenGeo — Wed, 05 May 2021 17:31:57 GMT

13 additional kudos on this (closed) duplicate idea: StoryMaps: Undo Button - Esri Community

Re: Please Add Undo Option to New Story Map Builder

AaronKoelker — Mon, 17 May 2021 16:10:50 GMT

An Undo button would be nice, but as a workaround for everyone here saying they are losing work when accidently deleting stuff -- it is possible to use the 'Discard Changes' option and reload the page to go back to your last published state.

Re: Please Add Undo Option to New Story Map Builder

YanitzaPiedra — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 01:56:16 GMT

I agree. I just lost two days' worth of work.

Re: Please Add Undo Option to New Story Map Builder

DavidMedeiros — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:14:27 GMT

A student here has just lost 3 weeks of work, her entire final project due in 5 days, because StoryMaps froze during an edit and somehow erased the contents of a sidecar containing all of her slides. Autosave of course immediately wrote that change to the app and because there is no undo, there was no way to retrieve her lost work. USers have been asking for an undo for 2 or 3 years now. This is an absurdly basic and necessary function to the this tool that Esri needs to stop ignoring.

Re: Please Add Undo Option to New Story Map Builder

AlexFeuchtwanger — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 06:06:42 GMT

Any updates on the status of this?

Re: Please Add Undo Option to New Story Map Builder

OwenGeo — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 14:26:31 GMT

This is something our development team is currently working on. We are excited to be reaching the final stages of this long-term and complex project, and we believe undo will be ready for release in a few months, sometime before mid-year.

Re: Please Add Undo Option to New Story Map Builder

AlexFeuchtwanger — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 04:38:39 GMT

Great news! Thanks Owen

Re: Please Add Undo Option to New Story Map Builder - Status changed to: Implemented

OwenGeo — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 14:45:13 GMT

The ability to undo and redo changes has been added to the story builder! You can read more about this here: What's New in ArcGIS StoryMaps (November 2022) (esri.com).