topic Duplicate navigation bars?? in ArcGIS StoryMaps Questions

Duplicate navigation bars??

SaraJL — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:24:47 GMT

Hello everyone!

I have no idea how this happened - but somehow I ended up with duplicate navigation bars and I can't figure out how to get rid of the extra one. I've tried clearing the cache, multiple browsers, opening it in an incognito window....everything I could think of.

Here is the link to the StoryMap

Re: Duplicate navigation bars??

OwenGeo — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:56:02 GMT

@SaraJL - We are looking into this and will post here when we have more information.

Re: Duplicate navigation bars??

ThePreatorian — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:22:43 GMT

Hey @SaraJL , after looking into the story, there is another navigation in the story structure (which should not happen). I also noticed the story was edited with python. Was this story created with a specific python script?

Re: Duplicate navigation bars??

SaraJL — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:12:43 GMT

@ThePreatorian I created this one with the StoryMap converter tool! This is actually one I was trying to convert from the Cascade legacy template.

I converted it first - but for some reason, the tool only pulled over the top section of the StoryMap, so I had to manually recreate the rest of it. I turned on the Navigation at the very end, and that's when the duplicate bar showed up. It didn't do that with the others I was working on, so I couldn't figure out what the cause might be.

Here is the original version - when I initially converted it, it only pulled the first section. But nothing beyond the "Differences in Physcial and Digital Archive Work".

I'm hoping there is some way to salvage it. It took me at least 4 hours to recreate this one from mostly scratch.....

Any advice is welcome!

Re: Duplicate navigation bars??

ThePreatorian — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:39:14 GMT

Im sorry you ran into this edge case with the converter tool. The good news is we can use python to fix the issue

### imports and gis connection above # connect to storymap/duplicate my_sm = StoryMap(story_id) # 1. Define your target IDs as constants for readability TARGET_NODE_ID = 'n-e20003' BLOCK_TO_REMOVE = 'n-1AItUD' # 2. Access the properties data = my_sm.properties target_node = data['nodes'].get(TARGET_NODE_ID) if target_node and 'children' in target_node: # 3. Use a list comprehension to filter # This creates a NEW list excluding the unwanted item. # It acts as a safe "remove" and ensures the property is reassigned. target_node['children'] = [ child_id for child_id in target_node['children'] if child_id != BLOCK_TO_REMOVE ] my_sm.save()

Re: Duplicate navigation bars??

SaraJL — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:45:23 GMT

Excellent and thank you so much! I'll try running this code.

Thank you again for the help!

Re: Duplicate navigation bars??

SaraJL — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:35:26 GMT

@ThePreatorian

I just had a couple of follow-up questions!

I don't have a background in coding - so I was chatting with one of our developers to get some help. I'm afraid I can't quite figure out where I'm supposed to place this code in the converter tool and then run in.

Do I place this code after the Imports (ex. block 4 in the converter tool) and then replace the story_id with the ID of the new version of the StoryMap?

Do I create a completely new notebook, copy-paste the imports, add the code after it and replace the story_id, and then just run that part?

Sorry for the lack of knowledge on my part! I have another StoryMap that this happened to today, so I want to test this again before I try to convert any more projects.

Thank you again for the help!

Re: Duplicate navigation bars??

ThePreatorian — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:16:29 GMT

@SaraJL I could have been more clear, yes you can just create a new notebook and copy the code below and add your story_id for the story that is showing the issue. Admittedly it has to be the exact story you shared above. Hopefully this works, I can also think on a more dynamic solution.

from arcgis.gis import GIS from arcgis.apps.storymap import StoryMap gis = GIS("home") ### imports and gis connection above # connect to storymap/conversion result my_sm = StoryMap(story_id) # 1. Define your target IDs as constants for readability TARGET_NODE_ID = 'n-e20003' BLOCK_TO_REMOVE = 'n-1AItUD' # 2. Access the properties data = my_sm.properties target_node = data['nodes'].get(TARGET_NODE_ID) if target_node and 'children' in target_node: # 3. Use a list comprehension to filter # This creates a NEW list excluding the unwanted item. # It acts as a safe "remove" and ensures the property is reassigned. target_node['children'] = [ child_id for child_id in target_node['children'] if child_id != BLOCK_TO_REMOVE ] my_sm.save()