topic Re: Turn off Watermark In Story Map in ArcGIS StoryMaps Questions

Turn off Watermark In Story Map

joerodmey — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 16:57:01 GMT

Looking for advice on how to turn off the Story Map watermark at the bottom of the page.

Thanks

Re: Turn off Watermark In Story Map

OwenGeo — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 18:56:44 GMT

Hi Joe -- Sorry, but I'm not sure what you mean by watermark. Could you please share a screenshot to clarify so we can help answer your question?

Re: Turn off Watermark In Story Map

joerodmey — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 13:41:39 GMT

This shows up at the bottom of my story:

Re: Turn off Watermark In Story Map

OwenGeo — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 20:24:43 GMT

Joe -- Ah ok, you're using the new ArcGIS StoryMaps (I moved your post from the classic Esri Story Maps GeoNet space to the ArcGIS StoryMaps space).

There's no way to hide that footer at the moment. Is hiding that something that you need to do when publishing stories? Do you want to just hide it or replace it with something else? Any additional info you could provide would be helpful.

Re: Turn off Watermark In Story Map

joerodmey — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 21:26:49 GMT

Does the classic story maps not have this footer? I think it makes the story maps look cheap. I'm already paying for the service and don't need the logo everywhere I look. I want to totally hide it

Re: Turn off Watermark In Story Map

joerodmey — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 14:50:19 GMT

What's the workaround for now? Is there a URL parameter, etc?

Re: Turn off Watermark In Story Map

GustavoEnciso1 — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 22:26:40 GMT

Hi Owen, Is there currently any solution to hide this watermark?

Re: Turn off Watermark In Story Map

joerodmey — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:32:36 GMT

I'm still waiting as well

Re: Turn off Watermark In Story Map

OwenGeo — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 15:20:32 GMT

The story footer will be minimized in the next ArcGIS StoryMaps release (Jan 2020) to be more similar to the existing "Powered by Esri" messages that appear for maps.

Re: Turn off Watermark In Story Map

joerodmey — Tue, 26 May 2020 13:45:46 GMT

Owen Evans‌ any update on this? I don't want the watermark at all. If not way to remove it through the app itself can it be removed via code like in web app builder?

Re: Turn off Watermark In Story Map

OwenGeo — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 02:40:10 GMT

Hello Joe -- At this time there are no plans to change this behavior. I'd encourage you to add your request to the ArcGIS Ideas site so that others can vote for it.

Re: Turn off Watermark In Story Map

AhmedHamido — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 09:30:16 GMT

@OwenGeo Do you please now how can I remove this "draft" word from my storymap? I tried a lot but could nt find an option to remove it. Thanks a lot in advance!

Re: Turn off Watermark In Story Map

OwenGeo — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 16:17:03 GMT

@AhmedHamido -- When you publish the story, the word "draft" will be replaced with the publication date. There are some additional configuration options for the date in the Story settings that let you hide it, if you like.

Re: Turn off Watermark In Story Map

AhmedHamido — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:33:52 GMT

Thanks a lot Owen for your quick response! I just wanted to replace the publishing date with another specific date but it is not possible to enter a specific date I believe.

Re: Turn off Watermark In Story Map

OwenGeo — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 20:01:57 GMT

Correct, the date field isn't editable right now.

If you want to control how the date looks on the cover you can elect to hide it in the story settings and then edit the author/byline field to include your name and a date, like this:

Re: Turn off Watermark In Story Map

AhmedHamido — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 20:46:44 GMT

Thanks a lot Owen, much appreciated! However, I fall into another very disappointing thing when I was showing the story map I created for my gf. For some reason now, the map is not showing up at all in the guided tour I created in the story map and even when I hit "Map options", it is like the map is disabled or something like that!! It was working totally fine just a week ago, so I really help you could explain that for me. I attached screenshots below.

Re: Turn off Watermark In Story Map

OwenGeo — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 21:33:07 GMT

@AhmedHamido -- I can't think of any reason why the basemap wouldn't load, but you can try clearing your browser cache or using an incognito window in case it's a browser issue. If that doesn't work, can you share your story publicly and share the link here? If you cannot share the link, please contact Esri Support and they can assist you further.

Re: Turn off Watermark In Story Map

AhmedHamido — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 22:38:31 GMT

Thanks a million once more, Owen!! I tried it now from Edge and for some reason the map showed u actually! So you think the reason that disabled the map and did not show it up even in the "Map options" is Chrome browser cache?