Enable identifying example stories using specific block types in Gallery

[PeterKnoop]

Esri's ArcGIS StoryMaps Gallery is a great resource to which one can direct new users to explore great examples of storytelling using the app. It would be helpful if a user who is looking for examples of specific block types (e.g., Swipe, Image Collection, Audio, Timeline) could readily identify stories in the Gallery that used those capabilities.

For example, for "swipe", if a user could enter it as a search term or if it was a selectable Filter option, then the user would be presented with the subset of stories in the Gallery that utilized the Swipe block.

[OwenGeo]

@PeterKnoop - There is currently a category in the filter called Features has Audio, Swipe, and other blocks. See screenshot.

Due to limitations of this page, we aren't able to integrate features into the search at this time, but does this current capability meet the need?

[PeterKnoop]

@OwenGeo the Filter functionality achieves the goal!

I think I would still want to keep this Idea alive as a suggestion for enabling the same thing through searching, should the limitations you mention go away (or as a reason for a new design without those limitations.) Searching is often a natural starting point for a question like this, particularly for people new to a product, while Filtering is typically something reserved more for those knowledgable about a product, who know more about what they are after. 

I did not notice that I could do this via Filtering. I think there are two things that obscure this functionality, which perhaps could be addressed.

1. It isn't obvious that there is a filter functionality, as it is not present by default, as it is in other areas of ArcGIS Online. It is only accessible after one locates and clicks on the Filter toggle near the top-right. For example, if I am in My Content view in ArcGIS Online, the filter options are present by default in the same size browser window. Likewise, in the "my projects" view on the StoryMap website, the "filtering" options are already there on the left. I would suggest starting with the Filtering options displayed for the Gallery, when the screen width is sufficient to show the filtering options in those other areas.
2. It isn't obvious that there is a level of filtering for specific features. When you first toggle open the Filter view, it shows one thing, Category, however, there is the greater-than sign as a visual queue to expand it. After expanding it, one sees a list of categories, like Features, however, there is no visual queue that it too can be expanded. It is only if one takes the time to click on Features that the additional options are presented. I would suggest adding a visual queue to indicate that the categories can also be expanded.

[OwenGeo]

@PeterKnoop - This all makes sense to me. Unfortunately, we are limited in what we can do on this page since it's a shared resource that's provided to us that is also used for other website product galleries. But I will make sure this feedback gets to the team that works on this.