Custom HTML in Story Maps

[JoshuaTanner2]

A recent blog article on Esri Story Maps Developers Corner illustrates the ability to add custom HTML elements within the Story Map Journal side panel.  I have been able to confirm this functionality using the Story Map Journal template, but would like to know if this is available in other Story Map templates, specifically the Map Series template.

There is a Story Map that EPA has created that utilizes custom HTML in their application (which is based on the Map Series template), but I haven't been able to figure out how this was done.  Is it possible that custom HTML elements in the Map Series template are supported in a hosted Portal release that isn't yet supported in ArcGIS Online? 

[OwenGeo · Accepted solution]

Hi Joshua,

For technical reasons, the ability to use custom HTML is available only in Map Journal.

The EPA story is a Map Series with Map Journals (each with a single section) embedded in several of the tabs. They customized Map Journal to hide the header bar and hosted their modified version on their servers. For example, here is one of the Journals: https://geopub.epa.gov/CREAT1/index.html?appid=f629f537c1bc4b529e4f0487677930fe 

Owen

[JoshuaTanner2]

Thanks Owen Evans, this is helpful.  That is quite a clever solution and even allows for the potential of users to edit specific tabs by editing the different Map Journal apps.  It's good to know this can be done.  Also, thanks for the quick response.