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autoplay=1 youtube doesnt work on tabbed story map?

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10-23-2018 04:51 AM
Lake_Worth_BeachAdmin
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Using tabbed map theme and want to autoplay a youtube video. however using the "?autoplay=1" parameter does not work... is this a limitation for story maps? 

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OwenGeo
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Joe -- If you want to utilize YouTube URL parameters you can add your video link to the story map as Web Page instead of Video content.

Keep in mind, however, that in general autoplaying videos with sound is not encouraged. In fact, if your video has sound, web browsers may block autoplaying it based on their content policies.

Here are some articles with more information about how and why browsers block content autoplay:

Owen Evans
Lead Product Engineer | StoryMaps

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OwenGeo
Esri Notable Contributor

Joe -- If you want to utilize YouTube URL parameters you can add your video link to the story map as Web Page instead of Video content.

Keep in mind, however, that in general autoplaying videos with sound is not encouraged. In fact, if your video has sound, web browsers may block autoplaying it based on their content policies.

Here are some articles with more information about how and why browsers block content autoplay:

Owen Evans
Lead Product Engineer | StoryMaps
Lake_Worth_BeachAdmin
Frequent Contributor

I found that using cascade the autoplay and loop parameters work fine but tabbed story maps is buggy sometimes its executed other times its not.

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