Does transferring a Story Map to another user change the URL address?

[PeterDeHart]

I have an ArcGIS Online account where I am building a Story Map for an organization that has their own ArcGIS Professional account. For the project the idea is that we as temporary contractors create this Story Map, then after hosting it (on our ArcGIS Online account) for a few months, we transfer the live Story Map over to the ArcGIS Professional account for it to live there. For the project, we are generating and printing QR codes that will be linked to specific headlines/anchor links on the page. My questions is, when we transfer the ArcGIS Online Story Map to the ArcGIS Professional account, will the URL change at all? We want the URL to be the same so the print QR codes still work.

[jcarlson · Accepted solution]

It should not. The URL for a storymap follows the pattern https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/[itemID], and the Item ID of the story does not change when the owner does.

[PeterDeHart]

Very helpful - Thank you!

[PeterKnoop]

Are your "ArcGIS Online account" and their "ArcGIS Professional account" both part of the same ArcGIS Online organization?

If they are, then yes, you can change ownership of an ArcGIS StoryMap from one user to another. The URL for the StoryMap would not change. Changing ownership of an item, however, is only possible within an ArcGIS Online organization.

If your two accounts are hosted by different ArcGIS Online organizations, then changing ownership of the StoryMap would not be an option. Instead you would need to transfer a copy of the StoryMap from your ArcGIS Online organization to their ArcGIS Online organization via ArcGIS Assistant, the clone_items method in the ArcGIS API for Python, etc. Unfortunately, regardless of how you transfer the StoryMap between organizations, the item ID, hence the URL, for the copy of the StoryMap hosted by their organization would be different.