StoryMaps Briefings repeatable header and/or footer across slides

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01-12-2024 08:31 AM
AaronKoelker
Occasional Contributor III

Hello there. For context / use case: we're interested in StoryMap Briefings as an option for our statewide geospatial coordination calls we host during emergency events. These happen daily via web calls with partners across the state, and in theory we would have a new or updated Briefing for each day. As folks are understandably swamped during these events, people sometimes come in late. Others will inevitably screenshot specific slides and email them elsewhere, or may be looking at the slides later on their own. Since the situation is always changing during events, it's important for us to time-stamp as much as we can so that folks know how recent/relevant the information they are looking at is.

So while having a date on the title slide is great, in the case of latecomers and screen-shooters(?), it would be helpful if there was an easy way to have a date and/or title stamped across each slide. Perhaps in a small header or footer or in the corners that could automatically populate across each slide? In our case, it might say something like "October 4th 2024, 1pm ET: Hurricane Bob Statewide Geospatial Coordination Call". Letting authors type this out manually might give the most flexibility, rather than pulling directly from the item title or item publish date. Being able to split it with title/text in one corner and the date in another might be a nice option, too.

Thanks!

2 Comments
OwenGeo
Status changed to: Under Consideration

Great idea @AaronKoelker, and thank you for providing a lot of detail about how you would use this and why it would be useful.

We discussed something like this early on in the briefing planning, but we haven't prioritized it yet. This is likely to be something we will look at after Q1 this year.

AaronKoelker

@OwenGeoGreat, thanks. Appreciate you all taking a look at it!