Puzzle on sharing "item details"

[CharlieFitzpatrick]

A user has shared a Story Map publicly. I can access it via a private/incognito window without login. I want to see the item details page. I tweak the URL to show "home/item.html?id=" and am required to log in. How is it that the resource can be public but not the item details for that resource? I am unable to replicate this behavior with any of my own contents

[OwenGeo · Accepted solution]

Hi Charlie -- What is the first part of the URL? If you are using your organization's URL (e.g., https://myorg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/...) and the org doesn't allow anonymous access, then you will be prompted for a login.

Check the org settings (or ask an admin if you're not an admin) to see if the org allows anonymous access. If it doesn't, you should use the generic  https://www.arcgis.com/apps/... URL.

Also, I'm just curious about the reason you are editing the URL -- in the vast majority of cases you shouldn't need to edit the URL of the item page.

[CharlieFitzpatrick]

Hi Owen, Ahhh! Thanks ... of course! It worked. For our high school + middle school competition, we ask to see both the final product and documentation that should be included in the item details page of the story map or app. Getting to the item details for a map is easy but tougher with a Story Map and other apps. Since many schools do not allow anonymous access, but the orgs in which I do my work all do, this explains why I would not be able to replicate it.

[RupertEssinger]

Hi Charlie, the easiest way to find the item details page for any publicly shared ArcGIS online item, whether it is a map, app (like a Story Map), data layer, etc, is to search for it. By definition, you'll always be able to get to the item details in ArcGIS Online for any publicly shared item in ArcGIS Online by searching, either generically at www.arcgis.com or when you are signed into your own ArcGIS Online Organization.

For example here's a cool Story Map about New Orleans:

APA National Planning Conference 2018 New Orleans Orientation Tour & Planners Guide

http://nolagis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=9aa42e3c620046cca96a24e9d23bca1f 

To search for story's item details to find out who authored it and perhaps leave a comment for them, you could search ArcGIS Online for the title of that story. Alternatively, to get directly to that story's item details without seeing other entries that might have the same or a similar name, copy the appid part from the URL, type id: into the ArcGIS Online search, and then paste in the appid. This tells ArcGIS Online you want to search for specifically for that id and it will never fail to find the item for you as long as it is publicly shared and exists: https://www.arcgis.com/home/search.html?q=id%3A9aa42e3c620046cca96a24e9d23bca1f&t=content&start=1&so... 

The method you mentioned above where you paste the ID into a URL is OK too and I do that instead of search because it is faster I do it so often as part of curating the Story Maps Gallery, but like Owen says it has to be a generic ArcGIS Online URL, i.e,:

https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=9aa42e3c620046cca96a24e9d23bca1f 

or a URL on the ArcGIS Online Organization you belong to, such as this URL in my case:

https://story.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=9aa42e3c620046cca96a24e9d23bca1f 

You can't use the URL to an Organization you aren't a member of because like Owen says, that Org may not allow non-members to view item details pages, even for publicly shared items.

Hope that helps.

Rupert