Allow Story Map Tour with a Feature Service

[MatthewDriscoll]

Please allow Story Map Tours to be able to use non-hosted feature services.   It seems like Story Maps is not useful for dynamic data or for Enterprise solutions.   It would be very usefully if we didn't have to republish overwrite several times a day if we want to keep our Story's up to date.   

[OwenGeo]

Hi @MatthewDriscoll - Thanks for sharing your idea here on the Esri Community. Could you please provide more detail about what you mean by "non-hosted feature services?" Creating a map tour from a feature service has been possible on ArcGIS Enterprise since v10.9.1.

[MatthewDriscoll]

@OwenGeo could you provide me a link to some documentation please.  Everything I have read says it needs to be hosted?  If I publish Referencing registered data and use that feature service I get an error say it is not a useable layer.  But if I Copy all data it works, because that is now hosted on portal.  I don't want to copy all data because I would have to be constantly republishing.

[OwenGeo]

Here's a recent blog on using feature services for map tours: Use — or create — a feature service to build a map tour in ArcGIS StoryMaps. The workflow is the same for ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise. (However, depending on which version of Enterprise you have, some features may look different or not be available). Note that Esri also uses "hosted" to describe feature services published to ArcGIS Enterprise portals.

If you are getting an error, please share your exact steps and a screenshot here so we can better assist you. Or you can contact Esri Support and they can help you with detailed troubleshooting.

[MatthewDriscoll]

@OwenGeo thank you!  I will see if I missed something and call tech support if I can't figure it out.