Thanks for this info Owen! That makes sense.... This is the workflow I am talking about..
We have field environmental scientists that go out and visit multiple sites of concern in a day. They record information about each site as well as photo documentation, using Collector. It would be awesome if Story Maps could be used then as an easy way for they, or their manager, to review the results periodically, without much manual modification of the Storymap from the GIS team. I have not looked into it in depth yet but it seems like Sam's modification would really help us with this work flow.
I do understand right now that the Story Maps are more static and maybe in many cases meant to tell a more static story rather than be part of a dynamic workflow.like above (We do also have a use for the latter case and so far they are working out great)
We really appreciate your help!