Short List template be installed entirely on our own web server

[Anonymous User]

Original User: ksmikrud

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out the different templates and where all the web map/images get stored for the template to run. In showing a link to a story map I created to one of our internet folks they thought the performance of the story maps was appalling and didn't want to integrate them with our current department website with the ESRI cloud service thinking that when the ESRI server has troubles this would also be reflected on our own web pages.

I'm wondering for the shortlist map story templates can everything reside on our own web server so there is no linkage issues with ESRI server or cloud. I know the images can and the template but didn't know if the web map still is linked to from ArcGIS Online? I really like the story map concept/look and would like to give it a go. Just trying to figure out some information since a current hurdle is our internet specialist that says we should start from scratch, build a complete application and deploy it from our own web server.

Have folks done this and has performance improved? Our the templates just slow to load? I would really appreciate any feedback on getting them integrated with your current websites and what worked best for performance?
Thanks

[Anonymous User]

Original User: RupertEssinger

Hi Kathy

There are three parts to your question:

Apps: All of the Story Map application templates can be downloaded and installed on your own web server or website. In addition, some of the apps are also available hosted in Esri's ArcGIS cloud (i.e. the Map Tour, Swipe, Basic, and Text and Legend apps). The Shortlist app that you mentioned is only available as a download. So you host it yourself and you can customize or tweak the code as much as you like.

Images: Images referenced by the Story Maps applications can be anywhere on the web. You can put your images on your own web server or website, in a file/photo sharing site like Flickr, or stored in ArcGIS Online. For example when you make a Map Tour you can choose whether you want to reference your images via URLs to where they live on the web, or import them into ArcGIS Online (where they get stored in a feature service as attachments). For the Shortlist app, the easiest way to handle images is to put them en masse on your own web server or website and then just reference them via a URL.

Web map: The web map (or web maps in the case of Story Map apps like Text and Legend that show multiple maps) that is referenced by your app is hosted in Esri's ArcGIS cloud. The layers the web map(s) are either stored in the ArcGIS cloud or can point at services being served up from other servers, like ArcGIS Server. So the web map is not installed on your own server (but it can contain data that you or others may be serving via ArcGIS Server). (If you are in a large enterprise using ArcGIS Server you also have the option to use the Portal For ArcGIS extension to make your own private cloud for hosting web maps and data).

But the short answer in terms of using the Shortlist app is that the app itself and your images can be on your own server, but the web map the Shortlist displays is in the cloud.