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The HTTP Check is awesome! We have some older organizational accounts we know we need to switch, but couldn't wrap our heads around how to track down all those http references. If we had a question, where should I post it?
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07-28-2020
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Yes, I know I had two different links. I'd read somewhere that taking out the = would help, so we tried one version with it, one without. I figured this was a PDF problem, not tied to the Survey. Is there something different we should do with the syntax of the hyperlink? It doesn't seem like the document you referenced mentions any sort of differences for what sort of device you use to open the PDF. I know very little about iPads. If it was a PC, I would suggest a different application for opening PDFs might do the trick. BTW - this is for the same project we discussed at the UC. There is a massive manual of regulations to go along with the survey questions, and we're hoping to tie the question to the appropriate part of the manual. Currently we created thousands of screen shots of the manual, but if we could directly open the actual PDF to the right area of the regulation, that's the better long term solution.
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07-21-2020
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We are attempting to navigate into a rather large PDF document from within a survey, on an iPad. Opening the document at it's beginning isn't useful. We'd like to be able to use a parameter like page=# The hyperlink works in the form to open the PDF, but the page number is being ignored. The same link works on a PC. I did some searching, and found a recommendation to remove the = sign For example, a PC will accept https://downloads.esri.com/RESOURCES/ENTERPRISEGIS/Limiting_Access_to_Public_Survey123_Results.pdf#page=5 But on an iPad, https://downloads.esri.com/RESOURCES/ENTERPRISEGIS/Limiting_Access_to_Public_Survey123_Results.pdf#page5 We tried this, but it doesn't work. Is there some known limitation for these additional parameters for PDFs that don't work on iPads? Is there a list somewhere of the input parameters that are accepted?
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07-21-2020
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Yes, guided tours in particular. The lack of having an option for our own web map is what led me to using a classic story map in the first place for our map tour. I assumed you would be adding that in at some point. I look forward to the time I don't have to pop back and forth between old and new. It gets pretty complicated to manage content when you have to keep track of how each is going to behave.
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05-19-2020
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One of the main "deal breakers" for us, is the need to have the option to use our own web map in a story. That was pretty common for the classic map, but it's been hit or miss for the newer ones. It's not that we aren't using the Esri base maps, but time after time we get asked to focus the map just to our state. Either we need to add a heavier outline, or a mask to filter as an overlay onto the Esri gray canvas. This gives just enough contrast that we stand out a bit from our neighbors. We tend to not use the newer templates when we can't substitute our own web map. I was going to put this as feedback, but then your feedback link was broken!
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05-19-2020
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On the main page for the story maps forum,https://community.esri.com/community/arcgis-storymaps , the submit feedback link on the left hand side under Important Links is broken. Ironic?
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05-19-2020
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I'm always more than a little leery to build something that is still marked as Beta. In addition, I find it extremely confusing to keep track of what kind of story map I'm going to get when I author it from AGOL. It's pretty straight forward when you start with the main story map URL, you are obviously in classic or the new. Starting from an organizational account, not so much. It's not as if the classic story maps aren't supported, they are still right there when you choose an application template, same as any of the other configurable ones. Although I like the new story map format when I need Cascade, trying to recreate all the functionality that was found in the original set of story map templates is more than a bit of a pain. Map Tour especially should be extremely straight forward, not something I have to hunt out, then read a tutorial in order to figure out how it works. . My HTML was really straight forward I thought, just a capture, the photo credit in italics and a hyperlink. I was using only the HTML tags that were listed in the documents, which BTW was also a journey to try to discover. It has eventually settled down and hopefully it won't keep happening. This story map is due to go out to all state employees, so I hope its stable!
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05-19-2020
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I would agree that having some sort of footer to hold this sort of information would be useful.
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05-18-2020
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I really like the new side panel map tour and I'm so disappointed to find out how buggy it is! After I created my initial map tour using the new side panel format, I am having all sorts of issues going back and making what should be minor edits. I did not have a file to upload, or content in Flickr, so I uploaded the photos one at a time and keyed in the title and caption. It was fine the first time around. However, as I've had to go back and make changes, those changes do not stick! Both the name and the caption may migrate to an adjacent photo. One case it randomly copied it to two others! Each minor change is causing me to have to copy and paste all the content for most of my photos and they all shift around! This was supposed to be easy, and I've spent hours fixing work I've already done more than once. I am using HTML format for my descriptions if that makes any difference. I am very frustrated. I have done the same story map many times now.
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05-15-2020
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As a side comment to the ability to edit and shared update capabilities, this apparently does not extent to updating data through Maps for Office, at least that what my staff is reporting. We've been having a discussion in general about best practices for publishing and updating data given all the ways COVID related data is coming to us. Typically whoever starts a project is the one who continues to work on it. In our current situation, we've had to redistribute the workload, in particular moving the data updates from one person to another after the initial application is completed. People tend to have a preference for keeping data updated, and it hard to tell if there is any "right" way to do it, or if it's more a matter of preference. We go back and forth ourselves as to what is best. Hosted feature layers that are shared sound like something we can have multiple staff edit. The feature layer created in Maps for Office, not so much. Also feature layers that are based on enterprise geodatabases, assuming people are using ArcGIS Pro, works well to have different people updating that data.
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04-21-2020
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I'm working up some documentation, not so much how to create these things, but the various scenarios for when I would recommend one over the other. I'm getting a little lost between these 3. If I upload a file, such as CSV into a web map, it is a feature collection, but remains part of the web map you loaded it into. If I wanted to use this anywhere else besides this one web map, I should then use "Save Layer" and that because a feature layer (not hosted) and is no longer a feature collection? When would I want this to be a hosted feature layer, rather than non-hosted? To actually limit the ability to edit it? To make it so that somebody other than me (the original author) can edit it? After reading the documentation, I'm still not sure. But I think this is the path/order for creating a layer initially and then where you need to take it, depending on how you want to use it?
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04-17-2020
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We'd like to be able to use Maps for Office to update a feature layer, and have more than one person have that ability. I'm being told that even though we can create a shared group to accomplish this within AGOL, that same level of functionality isn't available when trying to do those edits by way of Excel. I know this is likely "by design" and not a bug. I'm sure this product and workflow was envisioned as a one person - one layer scenario. I'd like as many options to edit a feature layer as possible, though. In my organization, some staff prefer M4O, some ArcPro, others AGOL. It seems like M4O has the least flexibility when it comes to having to have just one person edit a feature layer through that platform. Are we missing something?
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04-14-2020
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You're always going to run into a few problems when you post questions outside the content area, but mostly I'm not sure you're really getting your question in front of the right people. Esri actually has experts monitoring a particular content area. Users that are experts in that area are also likely to be keeping an eye on what's newly asked on GeoNet. So if you pick up a thread that deals with something like ArcGIS Hub, that's their area of expertise. You'll always be better off looking in the content area where your problem is, in your case, Survey 1-2-3, and even posting a fresh question there. In this case, the people at Esri are likely forwarding your question to the right group, which I know they are happy to do. Secondly, in order to keep some sort of order to the Question and related Answer, Esri sets it up so that when other people search in the forum at a later date for a similar question, it will be clearly flagged as answered and you can go from the initial question and drop down to see the solution in your searching. So all the extra side questions and conversations that don't deal with the original subject, are just that, extra. As a person who has combed through hundreds of threads that wander off topic, it can be frustrating to find that needle in the haystack. Also as the original author, you get a notification each time someone posts something new on the thread you initiated, every time, which I have a time hard ignoring, just in case my initial problem in ArcGIS Hub comes back. I'm still trying to remember how to turn that off, because I don't want to unsubscribe, only stop notification one thread at a time. When I first got started, I wasn't always looking in the right spot either, but I did learn over time that I had the best luck if I tried to pay attention to which content area I was looking in, rather than relying completely on an Internet Search, and assuming I was in the right place. That might work OK if you trying to just find answers, but if you have a question yourself, you'll get more help when you post in the right content area. Good luck!
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Just an observation, but I'm the originator of this thread, which was related to Hub and nothing to do with your current discussion. Wouldn't you be better off having this topic in the correct community? Just a pet peeve of mine to have a thread hi-jacked for a completely different product.
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I love the new configurable template with the interactive legend. This is functionality we've been asking for for a long time. Any chance this will appear in WAB any time soon?
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