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Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

KimBaldwin — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 22:02:52 GMT

I created my first story map today using ArcGIS StoryMaps on my public account (by accident) & need to transfer the story to my organisation account. My usernames are linked. How do I do this?? There must be a way to transfer...

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

ShaneMiles — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 01:44:15 GMT

Hey Kim,

Yes you can , through the use of ArcGIS Online Assistant . Once you log into it through your public account you have access to your root folder, which will contain your original story maps. Click on the "I want to" button at the top of the page and select copy content. This will then allow you to log into your new account (online/portal) and drag and drop the items you wish to copy across.

Hope this helped.

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

OwenGeo — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 12:20:00 GMT

Please note that the ArcGIS Online assistant does NOT transfer uploaded images when you copy an item from one account to another. The images may appear in the copied story, but they will be linked to the ones in the original story. If you go this route you'll need to upload the images again to the copied story if you want the copy to be self-contained. Also note that any maps, scenes, and layers in the story also reference the originals and are NOT duplicated.

Another path to consider is joining your public account to your organization. Once your public account is part of your organization, you could have an administrator transfer ownership of the story item and any resources from your (formerly) public account to your current org account. You can find more detail about that process here: Join organization—ArcGIS Online Help | Documentation

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

Amanda__Huber — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 04:12:43 GMT

Hi Owen,

Just to clarify does AGOL Assistant also support the Copying of ArcGIS Story Maps?

Upon logging in and selecting "I want to: Copy Content" the desired ArcGIS Story Map is un-selecable/ not transferable. Is this expected or is there something going wrong?

Thanks,

Amanda

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

Melissa__Danielle_Pugh — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 20:49:05 GMT

It doesn't BUT what you can do instead is to create a "dummy" story (publish & close it) and then copy the json from the data section of the StoryMap you wanted to replicate into the dummy one. Of course your images won't be there but it's better than starting from scratch. One thing to keep in mind with this method is that it will only be viable on published stories; the data section of the json isn't generated until a story is published.

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

Amanda__Huber — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 21:20:39 GMT

Thanks Melissa (Danielle) Pugh‌,

That sounds like a great workaround to test for the time being, I'll definitely give that a shot.

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

Amanda__Huber — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:00:22 GMT

Melissa (Danielle) Pugh‌ and Owen Evans‌ ,

It appears that the method that Melissa suggested above only works when viewing the story (with images broken)- when clicking "edit story" to fix the broken images the story reverts to it's original version.

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

CherylCollins — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 02:14:32 GMT

I'm having this same problem when trying to edit the story. Is there any new info on how to transfer a Story Map to a different account? Melissa (Danielle) Pugh Owen Evans

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

R_C_Reese_Osborne — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 16:05:29 GMT

Its sad that it doesnt seem the option to move/copy story maps doesn't seem to exist. I would like to even be able to give a story map i created to another organization and so far can not.

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

MJBiazar — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 14:02:18 GMT

It is possible to clone a Story Map (or a feature layer, map, app, etc.) from one AGOL account to another using a Python script. This will create a copy of the Story Map with uploaded images in your AGOL account. However, it may not copy other dependent items such as web maps.

This workflow is explained in more details in the article linked below:

How To: Copy hosted feature services (including data) from one ArcGIS Online organization to another

from arcgis.gis import GIS
gis1 = GIS("https://arcgis.com", 'USERNAME','PASSWORD')
gis2 = GIS("https://arcgis.com", 'USERNAME', 'PASSWORD')
items = gis1.content.search(query='id:ITEM_ID', sort_field='id', sort_order='desc')
print(str(len(items)) + " items will be cloned. See the list below:")
items
def deep_copy_content(input_list):
   for item in input_list:
      try:
         print("Cloning " + item.title)
         copy_list = []
         copy_list.append(item)
         gis2.content.clone_items(copy_list, copy_data=True, search_existing_items=True)
         print("Successfully cloned " + item.title)
      except Exception as e:
         print(e)
   print("The function has completed")
deep_copy_content(items)

All the best,

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

Anonymous User — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 00:04:50 GMT

Hey Amanda, were you ever able to figure out how to copy a storymap to someone out of your organization?. I am dealing with this issue too.

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

Rebecca_Dorff — Mon, 10 May 2021 23:22:49 GMT

It sounds like there is no option to copy OR transfer an ArcGIS Story Map from one organizational AGOL account to another organizational AGOL, correct? I am trying to transfer my Story Map collection to a different organizational account. I have a lot of content I am trying to transfer. 😕

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

Henry — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 18:25:42 GMT

Nifty script! I was able to login to the respective accounts and obtain the list of items to be cloned (43 of them), however when attempting to run the deep_copy_content function it spit back an error I don't quite know how to handle

can only concatenate str (not "builtin_function_or_method") to str

I've got everything up until this point working well, do I have to put in the name of the item in the step below or the list generated in the previous step? A little new to using python.

##Create a logic to clone the items using the clone_items() function and to handle an error if the cloning process fails.
def deep_copy_content(input_list):
for item in input_list:
try:
print("Cloning " + item.title)
copy_list = []
copy_list.append(item)
gis2.content.clone_items(copy_list, copy_data=True, search_existing_items=True)
print("Successfully cloned " + item.title)
except Exception as e:
print(e)
print("The function has completed")
deep_copy_content(items)

Thanks!

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

OwenGeo — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 11:39:15 GMT

All -- There's a new ArcGIS Assistant tool that has some capabilities for transferring content. Check it out and see if it meets your needs.

https://assistant.esri-ps.com/

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

Henry — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 22:19:40 GMT

Oh nice! I didn't know a new version of the Assistant tool was in the works - I'll give it a try with some apps - thanks!

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

SCAGGISLA — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 21:50:25 GMT

Hi Owen,

Copying the story maps seems working however no further edits are able to make. Seems a bug.

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

OwenGeo — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 21:59:20 GMT

@SCAGGISLA -- What types of accounts are you transferring between? Is either account a public account?

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

SCAGGISLA — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 22:10:11 GMT

both accounts are organizations accounts. transferring from one AGOL org account to another AGOL account.

I tried from the source AGOL org account to ArcGIS Enterprise (10.8.1) too but almost a similar error while editing.

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

OwenGeo — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 22:20:39 GMT

@SCAGGISLA -- As noted in the Assistant documentation, copying from Online to Enterprise (especially an older version of Enterprise) is not likely to be met with success. This is because the Enterprise codebase and data model are older than Online so there are inconsistencies.

https://guide.assistant.esri-ps.com/docs/common-workflows#anything-else-i-should-know-about-copying-storymaps

We'll look into the AGO > AGO issue, but we haven't heard any other reports of that not working. If you can share the story publicly (from your Content page in ArcGIS Online) and provide an id we can try to take a look.

Re: Can you transfer a Story to another ESRI account?

SCAGGISLA — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 22:27:29 GMT

Thanks @OwenGeo.

here is the ID (77097c02cb034a46a3a911ae7221e84b) for the storymap which I am trying to copy from. It is already shared publicly.