The briefings app is a companion to your ArcGIS StoryMaps briefings. You can now access and share your briefings on the go from your iOS and Android tablets, and Windows computers and tablets providing a viewing, interacting, and presentation experience at your fingertips. For more information, please read our announcement blog article .
Please provide any feedback or issues encountered through the in-app feedback or Esri Community.
What's New?
Here is the list of updates that have been added in the app version 1.4.6 for the June 24th, 2024 update :
- Optimized memory efficiency and performance in briefings
- Introduced Table Block in briefings app
- Enabled identify feature in slide view
- Introduced Autoplay Mode (Beta) in the settings
- Map Optimization tool deprecated from settings page
- Several other bug fixes
Below is a list of issues you may encounter while using this release of the briefings app and a preview of what is planned for future releases.
Known Issues and Limitations
We are aware of the following issues and plan to address them in an upcoming release.
IOS specific
A downloaded icon may show for non-downloaded briefings under the “All Briefings” tab only (Fixed in ver. 1.0)Some special characters do not get encoded correctly in Briefing slide title and TOC (Fixed in ver. 1.0)Video glyph beside the link to resource is missing and shows as space (Fixed in ver. 1.1.3)GIF images do not animate and are shown as static image when added in logo or image block (Fixed in ver. 1.3.5)- Videos do not honor the theme background color on playing.
- Text shows single line and then truncates it on table of contents, and map pop-up identify for some cases
- In some instances, when you pull down to refresh, the user interface may not update properly
- Bold and italic styling is not yet supported in text blocks
- When choosing recent used URLs in dark theme, the URL will appear dark for the first time
- When the numbered list has 10+ items, the list gets pushed right giving some space in front of single digit items.
Android specific
Windows specific
General
The continue button on the sign-in dialogue does not get highlighted, but it is fully operational (Fixed in ver. 1.0)Swipe blocks with maps are not yet supported (Fixed in ver. 1.0)Some icons that are dark by default are not tinting properly at times (Fixed in ver. 1.0)Some icons are not visible in the dark theme. Please use the light theme (Fixed in ver. 1.0)Enterprise support is currently only for OAuth and SAML authorizations (Fixed in ver. 1.0)Scene tools disappearing on slide view (Fixed in ver. 1.1.3)One extra busy indicator appears on the gallery page when pulled down to refresh (Fixed in ver. 1.1.3)Add to favorites / Remove from favorites does not respond in My Downloads tab (Fixed in ver. 1.1.3)View full details does not redirect to the ArcGIS Online metadata page in My Downloads tab (Fixed in ver. 1.1.3)App crashes when downloading a draft briefing (Fixed in ver. 1.1.3)Icon tint issues on tapping download icon or any link to resource inside the briefing (Fixed in ver. 1.3.5)Alignments for cell values in a Table was getting copied over to the right columns. (Fixed in ver. 1.4.6)Video added as the link to resource is not pausing when the link is closed (Fixed in ver. 1.4.6)Current location marker and search result pin on Map/Scene is not disappearing after navigating to other slide and returning to the same slide. (Fixed in ver. 1.4.6)Web Scene in offline briefings shows loading indicator instead of offline placeholder. (Fixed in ver. 1.4.6)Images with Fit configuration were missing correct background color when navigating from a video slide.(Fixed in ver. 1.4.6)Search pin gets disappeared in express maps sometimes when search is already used in other map/scene in a double layout slide. (Fixed in ver. 1.4.6)When maps are added in double layout, their extents were in sync when navigating from a swipe block. (Fixed in ver. 1.4.6)All map tools in a slide view disappear after expanding and then collapsing the map when navigating from swipe block slide. (Fixed in ver. 1.4.6)When only 1 map is added in a Swipe block, map tools do not display. (Fixed in ver. 1.4.6)Legend contents and map tools in a Swipe block for Express maps show empty when navigating directly to that slide.(Fixed in ver. 1.4.6)When images in Swipe block are Fill, the right image gets clipped on slide view. (Fixed in ver. 1.4.6)Briefing navigation keys were not correctly responding when navigating from last slide having a link that navigates to any previous slide.(Fixed in ver. 1.4.6)- Express maps in the web tier authentications like IWA, LDAP and PKI do not show the picture marker images in online briefings
- Sign-in may fail the first time when using Facebook
- You may experience an inability to sign out when signed in with a Gmail or GitHub account
- Briefings using Google Fonts show the Summit theme fonts as the default
- Scene layers within a legend for web scenes are not supported
- 3D basemaps are not supported for web scenes
- Popups with hyperlinks show as normal text
- GIF images may not be sized as expected when added as resource link from ArcGIS content
- Videos does not honor the theme background color
- Image Gallery will always show maximum of 4 columns irrespective of single or double (30%, 50%, 70%) layout.
- No pop-up displays when clicking a feature with Video info in Express map.
- Images with Fit configuration having background and attribution is not honored when clicking a feature with media info in Express map.
- When bookmark panel is not closed in a map attachment link and if opened another map or scene, the same bookmark panel shows there.
- On iOS and Windows, the initial extent for Mobile Scene Package (MSPK) initial extent shows wrong when navigating from MMPK to MSPK in a downloaded briefing with Internet connection ON.
- On iOS and Android, Identify pop-up may look too narrow in slide view.
- App crashes when having a Web Map with Teams Notes layer.
What’s Coming
We are considering the following updates for future releases:
- Update offline briefings
- Search, and groups filter on the gallery page