It would be helpful to have some way to easily see what changes have been made in a draft story, as compared to the published version. Particularly in cases where a series of edits over time are required, before you publish the updated story.
One could view the draft and published versions of a story side-by-side in two browser tabs, however, it is easy to overlook differences that way, especially if they are minor changes.
Something like a compare or diff tool that would visually highlight the differences is desired. It would help one to identify blocks that had been added, deleted, or edited since the story was last published.
Use cases:
- A group collaboratively authoring a StoryMap. They currently have to use a Shared Update group to achieve this goal, and ensure they have a way to coordinate who is authoring the story when, so that they don't run the risk of overwriting each other's edits. When it is one of the collaborators turns to edit the story, they may have forgotten what changes they have already made, and want to see what those are. Or, they may want to see what other changes have been made by other collaborators in other parts of the story since it was last published.
- If you are sporadically working on updating a story, or are juggling a lot of other tasks in ArcGIS, it can be difficult to remember where you left off editing story. In which case it would be helpful to remind yourself of what changes you have already made, which haven't been published yet.
- When an administrator is helping someone troubleshoot issues with their StoryMap, it can be helpful to identify what changes exist in the draft versus published versions, potentially narrowing down the source of a problem.
