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Add hyperlink from feature layer when creating Map Tour in StoryMaps

JanetSilb_Spike — Wed, 07 May 2025 19:33:45 GMT

I have a created a Map Tour from a hosted point feature layer that displays various locations, each containing a field with a hyperlink. These links are intended to be associated with individual locations on the map. When attempting to create a Map Tour from the feature layer, the hyperlinks appear as plain text and are not clickable. Alternatively if I use the "Start from scratch" option where points and hyperlinks are added manually, instead of the "From Feature Layer" option, the links can be made live. However this approach would not be feasible for feature layers with many points, and even with fewer points the process is tedious.

Re: Add hyperlink from feature layer when creating Map Tour in StoryMaps - Status changed to: Under Consideration

OwenGeo — Thu, 08 May 2025 19:10:32 GMT

@JanetSilb_Spike Thanks for sharing what you are looking to do with your map tour and the limitation you ran into. We are working on a way to easily add a link from a URL field in a feature layer. We don't have a specific timeline on this, but I believe it may be added in a release later this year.

For now, you can review the information in the blog linked below that describes how you can combine information from different fields into a single field that you can use for your map tour description.

Using ArcGIS Arcade to your story's advantage

We are also working on a follow-up blog that covers how to use basic HTML to format the description field using multiple paragraphs, list, links, and more. We hope to post that later this month.

Re: Add hyperlink from feature layer when creating Map Tour in StoryMaps

JanetSilb_Spike — Fri, 09 May 2025 21:20:15 GMT

Thanks @OwenGeo . I use Arcade in many other Esri applications so I will review this blog & see if I can get it do what I want with the URLs in a Map Tour!

Re: Add hyperlink from feature layer when creating Map Tour in StoryMaps

OwenGeo — Mon, 12 May 2025 21:49:56 GMT

@JanetSilb_Spike - Excellent! I think you should have an easy time with this workflow if you are already familiar with Arcade.

We also recently published an additional blog with more information about HTML formatting techniques.

Format place descriptions for data driven map tours using HTML

Re: Add hyperlink from feature layer when creating Map Tour in StoryMaps

JanetSilb_Spike — Mon, 12 May 2025 21:55:16 GMT

Thanks again @OwenGeo . I wasn't actually having such an easy time with it, but partly for reasons other than Arcade (turns out you can't calculate a field for a feature layer that you do not own). But I also wasn't sure how to format the expression so this blog looks like it will be very helpful!

Re: Add hyperlink from feature layer when creating Map Tour in StoryMaps - Status changed to: Implemented

OwenGeo — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:56:05 GMT

As of July 2025, you can also configure a button link for each map tour location in a data driven tour. For more information, see What's new in ArcGIS StoryMaps (July 2025).

Closing this as implemented since there are now several ways to achieve this.