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 March 28th, 2024 update :
- Support for the web layers using the ArcGIS secured services and/or sample server hosted layers within Web Maps and 3D Scenes that are hosted outside the user's current ArcGIS Organization.
- Logo appearance enhancement in header and/or cover.
- Added arrow keys inside the briefing slides on the header to navigate back and forth.
- Settings page will now show the fully qualified hostname of the current organization if available.
- "Left", "Center" and "Right" alignment text content is fully supported now.
- Improved map tools and layout inside Maps and 3D scenes.
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 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
- Text shows single line and then truncates it on table of contents, slide titles and map pop-up identify for some cases
- GIF images do not animate and are shown as static image when added in logo or image block
- 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
There is UI sizing issue when windows screen is resized while inside briefing (fixed) Identify pop-up window in swipe block for express maps does not display (fixed) Some downloaded briefings show blank page on opening them and are not readable (fixed) Offline to online behavior does not display correct toast message in some cases (fixed) On clicking on My Briefings filter in disabled network, it shows offline empty state (fixed) Swipe block may have issues in the swiping gesture (fixed) Bold and color styling is not yet supported in text blocks (fixed)The sign-in button does not respond after signing browser has been closed without logging into the app. It would require restarting the app (fixed)Video glyph beside the link to resource is missing and shows as space (fixed)Some special characters do not get encoded correctly in Briefing slide title and TOC (fixed)- After installing the app on some non-English language/locale environments, it may fail to launch. In this case please install the VC++ redistribution package from https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe and then relaunch the app. Alternatively, you can install the app on an English language/locale environment first and then switch to the non-English language and launch the app successfully.
- Windows shows single line and then truncates the text on gallery card, TOC and map pop-up identify
- Images in expanded view do not zoom in/out for non-touch devices only.
- Windows always takes to cover page when minimizing and again maximizing the app.
- There is UI issue with mouse wheel gestures while inside briefing.
General
The continue button on the sign-in dialogue does not get highlighted, but it is fully operational (fixed)Swipe blocks with maps are not yet supported (fixed)Some icons that are dark by default are not tinting properly at times (fixed)Some icons are not visible in the dark theme. Please use the light theme (fixed)Enterprise support is currently only for OAuth and SAML authorizations (fixed)Icon tint issues (fixed)Scene tools disappearing on slide view (fixed)One extra busy indicator appears on the gallery page when pulled down to refresh (fixed)Add to favorites / Remove from favorites does not respond in My Downloads tab (fixed)
View full details does not redirect to the ArcGIS Online metadata page in My Downloads tab (fixed)App crashes when downloading a draft briefing (fixed)- 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
What’s Coming
We are considering the following updates for future releases:
- Update offline briefings
- Search, and groups filter on the gallery page
