Story Map Categorized Tour Questions

[K_Jueckstock]

I've been working on a categorized tour in story maps, and I have come across a few questions....

1. Is there a way to reorder the list items within each category? It currently seems to be pulling from the object ID which cant be changed, as far as I know, unless you recreate the features. Dragging to arrange the order within the editing viewer would be ideal

2. It would be helpful for there to be a back arrow at the bottom when you expand the categories and scroll through category list items, the navigation does not feel intuitive to have to scroll back up to find the back arrow

3. Is there a way to change not just the circle color for the tour points, but also the icon color?

4. Can I set different zoom scales for each category in the list that doesn't affect the others? I can't seem to figure this out, it would be even better if I could change the zoom scale for each list item within the categories as well. 

Any input? Thanks everyone. 

[ZachMadden]

Hello.

I have been looking for help with your 4th question posted above as well! So far, I haven't found any answer to the problem of setting a custom zoom level for each individual tour point when using the categorized map tour. I did find this blog post helpful with other issues that I was having.

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/story-maps/constituent-engagement/use-feature-service-to-b...

What worked for me is that you have to create a table with all of the information you want included for each point in advance. I created a field with the title "name" and was able to arrange each category by the title I wanted them to have. If you figure out the custom zoom for each point, please let me know!

[ZachMadden]

Hello again.

It looks like I found a concrete answer for the 4th question and it looks like that function is not available yet. 

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/53d9d11a512042e7be18a2a32c981570

"Finally, you can choose to set a universal zoom level for each point. (Note that in a data-driven tour, you cannot override the zoom level for individual points.)"

I submitted a suggestion to the Story Maps devs so hopefully it will be added in the future. 

[OwenGeo]

@K_Jueckstock Thanks for sharing your feedback about categorized tours!

1. Currently, categorized tours are available via the data-driven workflow (created from a feature layer), which does not have a way to reorder the points in the builder. If possible, you could recreate your feature layer from a spreadsheet in the order you wish the points to appear. Out of curiosity, do you expect the amount of tour locations to be changing after you create your tour, or will the list be set once you create your tour?

2. Can you share a GIF or video of what you are seeing? The navigation arrow does move out of view after you scroll past the entire tour and move on to the next part of the story. We'd be interested to see the situation you are experiencing to make sure it's not a bug.

3. We're looking into adding the ability to change the icon color. Could you share whether you just don't like the automatic white or black choice and would pick the other or whether you want to use other colors for the icons?

4. As @ZachMadden noted above, that feature is not available at this time. We recommend setting the Initial zoom level in the map settings to a scale that's zoomed out enough to see what's important for all locations.

It would be helpful if you could please add these as individual requests to the Ideas board (or vote for existing ideas) so others can weigh in and upvote them. We use the information there to help us prioritize future updates and enhancements.

[OwenGeo]

@K_Jueckstock -- Oh, I forgot to mention that for question 1 you can select a field to your feature layer that has the order you want the places to appear as the Sort by field in the data source configuration panel. For example, you could sort them alphabetically by place name. If none of the existing fields has the order you want, you can add a new integer field to the feature layer and populate it with numbers that specify the order you want.