I have been working for a few days trying to build a StoryMap using the new version (not the classic). Today I was making progress building a rudimentary express map in a sidecar. As I was working at this at some point I got "unexpected error" and I could no longer pull up the map in the window. I could see vesitiges of it (a box with my map legend inside the frame) but the map itself was not loading in the frame. I tried the 'search' feature but nothing happen works. I logged out, shut down, reloaded, etc. Still no map was loading in the frame.
I deleted the chunk with the express map using the Remove Slide option. I copied the text chunks elsewhere so as not the lose them. I then deleted the sidecar, expecting to be able to recreate it along with the sidecar without too much work.
However, now when I open this same StoryMap, the Express map function no longer works. I can choose to add an Express map and the frame for it appears, but no basemap appears. The icons are greyed out.
I can live without an express map in this StoryMap, but it also seems that the regular 'insert a map' function is not working.
My storymap isn't shared because its in development. It's located at https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=e9d36398d22243d1aa6872bf6b59c7ab
I'm loathe to have to recreate the content using the new StoryMap environment if this is known issue. Everything was working properly in this Story Map until I started adding in the Express Map.
Is my experience unique, or has this situation been encountered by others using Express Maps?
Mia
