What we would ideally like to be able to do: We are having an issue with the map extent re-setting between slides in a sidecar block. Sometimes we want to tell a story about spatial data, not about a single spatial location. So we want people to be able to zoom to their area of interest (e.g. their local neighbourhood) and then scroll through the StoryMap seamlessly, without having to manually zoom back in every time they scroll to a new slide or click on a map action.
A second-best option: We have tried setting out our story map as one long single slide and using map actions so that our readers can manually change the layers. This is not ideal, as we would prefer the layers to automatically change rather than having to rely on our readers clicking a button. This would be preferable, however, to requiring our readers to keep finding their area of interest. This seems to work sometimes, but at other times the map resets on the button click. Whether the extent resets seems random; the same button may or may not reset the extent. We cannot work out what determines whether the extent resets of not.
We have the following questions:
- What would you suggest as the best way to achieve a story map that allows our readers to scroll through multiple data layers, without requiring them to zoom to their preferred location of interest for each layer individually?
- Would it be possible for you to add in an option to keep the readers last extent when adding a new slide to a Sidecar in the future, please? We believe this used to be possible with the old story maps and was / would be a very useful feature.
- Is the map action button supposed to reset the extent or not? Is the fact it is sometimes resetting a bug or are we doing something that determines this?
- Is there any way to specify whether the extent is reset or not when setting up a map action?
