topic Re: Basic Question in Classic Esri Story Maps Questions

Basic Question

LukeAllen1 — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:10:54 GMT

Hi Guys, I am new to story map creating, I am currently trying to make a story map tour, but I didn't want to the polygon layer pop up to appear as soon as the story map is loaded, I wanted it to appear only when clicked on, is this easy to adjust?

Thank you!

Re: Basic Question

OwenGeo — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:48:27 GMT

Hi Luke,

Welcome to Story Maps! Sorry you are having an issue.

A Map Tour typically only has one layer, which is a point layer of the tour points, so I'm not sure which polygon layer you are referring to. Are you able to provide a bit more information and/or share your map tour publicly and post a link here so I can take a look?

Owen

Re: Basic Question

LukeAllen1 — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 17:20:30 GMT

Hi Owen, my mistake - I think I got things mixed up, what I mean to say is I am building a story map series (Tabbed layout), I have polygons in there, which I switch between in sequence (areas of interest in my story map). Can I also add point layer which could then be zoomed into? So far I only have polygon layers and I'm not sure if this was possibly (rookie!)

Re: Basic Question

OwenGeo — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 17:59:13 GMT

Hi Luke,

Sure, you can include layers in your map that turn on/off depending on the scale the map is being viewed. This is called the Visibility Range and it can be set on any layer in your web map.

Re: Basic Question

LukeAllen1 — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 18:12:36 GMT

Hi Owen, Can I put point layers onto this map ? which can zoom into them when you click them?

Re: Basic Question

OwenGeo — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 18:19:42 GMT

Hi Luke,

Sure, you can put any type of layer in your web map: points, lines, polygons, tiles, imagery, etc.

There's no way to configure the app to zoom when you click on a point on the map, although that would be something a developer could customize the app to do by writing JavaScript code.

I'm not quite sure I understand the zooming behavior you are describing. Can you describe a little more the experience you are trying to create and maybe I can help find another way to help.

Owen

Re: Basic Question

LukeAllen1 — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 18:57:51 GMT

If I had an image of a location that I could click on and it would zoom to a point location on the map within the tabbed layout of a storymap template

Re: Basic Question

OwenGeo — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:32:53 GMT

Ah, ok -- sounds like you might want to build a Map Tour with your images and a point layer and then embed that in one of the tabs of your Map Series app (using the "web page" option).

Here's some more info on that process:

Embedding a Story Map within a Story Map | ArcGIS Blog

Let me know if this helps,
Owen

Re: Basic Question

OwenGeo — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:57:07 GMT

Here's an example of a Map Tour inside a Map Series...click the "Female Farmers" tab.

http://aasd.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/?appid=68c4908549964e64a4c753e6ed22be41

Owen