ABILITY TO SELECT A FOCUS TAB IN URL FOR SHORTLIST APP

JuneAcosta — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 17:33:00 GMT

We have 3 tabs in our Shortlist app and the default tab is "facilities"- Is it possible to pass a parameter in the URL to say which tab to default to?

Our Cultural Art department would like a link from their city page to call the Shortlist app with the Public Art tab as the focus instead of the "facilities" tab.

http://ccmaps.carlsbadca.gov/facilities/

Re: ABILITY TO SELECT A FOCUS TAB IN URL FOR SHORTLIST APP

RupertEssinger — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:03:24 GMT

Hi June

That is a good idea and something we'd like to add but it isn't supported at the moment. But they'll probably want the Public Art tab tto be first as well, so may be easier just to make a copy of your web map and make a new shortlist specifically for them instead, with or without the other tabs.

One thing that really helps if you are making multiple shortlists: you can run multiple shortlists from one instance of the download. So in this way you can install the app once, customize it as much as you want, and then run multiple shortlists from that same instance.

So for example you can take your existing instance of the Shortlist:

http://ccmaps.carlsbadca.gov/facilities

and send a different one of your web maps to it via a webmap parameter in the URL:

http://ccmaps.carlsbadca.gov/facilities/?webmap=35dbdc33d23c4a338996dd25d250bac5

For example that's how we did the Brazil World Cup Shortlist. I just made the web map and then put its ID into a URL sent to our generic instance of the app:
http://storymaps.esri.com/templates/shortlist/?webmap=bc57628b16ee41dca3264d885df2c95f&COLOR_ORDER=red,blue,purple

All the parameters in the Index.html config section are supported, like in this example:

http://storymaps.esri.com/templates/shortlist/?webmap=8504932f183c4b8699dc6ba28235e398&DETAILS_PANEL=true&GEOLOCATOR=true&POINT_LAYERS_NOT_TO_BE_SHOWN_AS_TABS=Light%20rail%20stations&SUPPORTING_LAYERS_THAT_ARE_CLICKABLE=Light%20rail%20stations|Light%20rail|Neighborhoods|Parks

Nice story maps by the way!

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ABILITY TO SELECT A FOCUS TAB IN URL FOR SHORTLIST APP

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