How do I make a copy of my story map that I can save with a different title?
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@KateGersh wrote:I want to make a second copy of my story map so that I can play around with making changes, while not changing the original story map. Can you please tell me how to do this? Thank you!
While @OwenGeo says there is no simple way, I have found that there is a non-simple way.
I've had success using ArcGIS Online Assistant. There is options to copy content. Keep in mind, if you copy a story map, all the references are still pointed at the original content so if there is a requirement to test changes to the content within the story map, those items will need to be copied too. I've used this tool to deal with the issue of having a relatively complex public facing app that needed modification. Working on live app is risky as there is no undo button in AGOL. I copied the app and all of the dashboards and maps used in the app and then used the View and Item's JSON to copy out the JSON files. If you look carefully at a the JSON, you will find the URLs that reference the content in the app. I was then able to use a JSON editor to update the URLs to direct to my test copies of all the content. You need to be very careful when taking this approach or you can break things. Always copy a backup of the code before making any modifications.
The result was a functioning copy of my story map with copies of the content within it that I could use to then make updates as I saw fit without affecting the live version. In my case, I made a bunch of changes to dashboards and was able to present those changes to our team for approval. Once they were in satisfactory shape, I went into the live app, edited the JSON file to point at my updated dashboards, and BOOM! I had my updates live. Alternatively, I could have used the copy as the main story map. In my case, the original URL had been widely shared and we did not want to have to deal with the backlash of everyone who may have that URL bookmarked or referenced somewhere.
Unfortunately there is not an quick and easy way that I've found to copy a story map and all related content into a test environment. That would be extremely useful, but ESRI is not there yet. Having versioned content would be a fantastic improvement. This is the best way I've found so far to get around those limitations.
https://ago-assistant.esri.com/
I found a method slightly simpler than @JTLancer, though it still requires navigating to https://ago-assistant.esri.com/ where you need to be very careful you don't break anything. Here's what I did
Under "I want to..." click Copy Content
Then drag the item from the left pane to the right pane where it says "Drop items to copy to this folder"
And that should do it! At least thats what worked for me.
I am signed into ago-assistant and Copy Content does not include StoryMap as an option. The StoryMaps I am interested in copying are all created with the newer StoryMap builder.
I don't see that Dashboards or Web Experience Apps are an option either. Is there a trick to this that I am missing?
