ArcGIS StoryMaps- Ability to Group or Move StoryMap Elements In Bulk

[Amanda__Huber]

Hello StoryMaps Team!

We recently found ourselves editing an prior StoryMap and shaping it into something new. Upon editing the story it was tedious to move each element individually when you have multiple elements in a "section". 

Our idea- if there was a way to group or move multiple items in bulk that would resolve this issue! 

Here's a few screen captures of what we're looking for and the content "sections" we have: 

Thanks for your consideration!

Hope you're doing well 🙂 

Best, 

Amanda Huber

[PeterKnoop]

We also from time to time find the need to re-organize stories by moving entire sections (as delineated by Heading 1 or Heading 2) above or below other sections.

Rather than dragging-and-dropping in the main story editor, which is cumbersome and confusing when there is a lot of content in sections to move around, it would be great if there was simplified interface for re-organizing content.

If there was some sort of outline or organizational view of the story, where heading levels were simple blocks you could drag-and-drop, that would be very helpful. Perhaps something like the Story navigation pane, but in which you could drag-and-drop the heading blocks. Or, something like the Experience Builder outline view, which would show different levels of headings nested hierarchically, and with the addition of drag-and-drop functionality to re-order things. (I wish that EB outline view had the drag-and-drop for reorganizing experiences too!)

[OwenGeo]

We love this idea! We have some preliminary designs for something that would meet this need. It is potentially a big project, and we have not added it to a specific place in our roadmap at this time. But we do recognize the need for something to help move multiple blocks within a story. We will continue to monitor this idea for kudos and additional comments.

[AaronKoelker]

Also would love to see a solution for this. Even going into a new story with everything outlined — you sometimes realize late in the process that the story would flow better in a different order. Peter's idea to have some sort of 'outline' view for quick rearrangement of many blocks would be awesome.

[Amanda__Huber]

Thanks for the update @OwenGeo , fingers crossed this gets enough attention then!

I agree with @PeterKnoop also, that some sort of outline would work great for this (similar to the classic Cascade template where we had the organizer sidebar). 

Thanks!