Latest Contributions by PeterKnoop

@RussRoberts we have a user in our ArcGIS Online organization reporting this error occurs now whenever they try to open the Groups tab in Chrome/Edge. Is this likely another manifestation of the same bug? ... View more

Thanks, @MarkZollinger. I wasn't quite sure which page in the documentation to attach a comment too, so I took the Idea route. To be clear, I'm not looking for more examples to be included on the silent installation page, but rather the full documentation for SoftwareAuthorizationPro.exe to be provided.  ... View more

Reading this Idea, I would suggest the underlying use case is to make access to Group functionality (create a group, manage membership, share content with a group, etc.) easier for people using StoryMaps (limited to the subset of such users who are not using other ArcGIS Online apps, such as Map Viewer, Survey123, etc.)  It also feels to me that this use case is one of many symptoms of an artificial divide resulting from product silos. (See the Idea, Consolidate Story Maps into ArcGIS Online.) Given folks' background these days with cloud drives and productivity apps (e.g., Google Drive and Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc., or the Apple or Microsoft equivalents) they are generally familiar with the user experience pattern pairing content management and apps. Perhaps another way to reach the user goal of this Idea would be to do away with StoryMaps customized content management page, and redesign user interactions with StoryMaps to follow that familiar pattern. In this case, ArcGIS Online "Content" is the content management portion, and the StoryMaps app is the app portion. (See the Idea, Consolidate Story Maps into ArcGIS Online.) So for a group doing a final project utilizing StoryMaps, one of the members needs to create the StoryMap and they or another member needs to create the Group.  To create the StoryMap, one of the members of the group could go to their "Content". From there they could initiate a new StoryMap (or Theme or Collection), like they can create a new Google Doc from Google Drive or a new Excel sheet from OneDrive. When they need to subsequently view or edit their story, then they get to it from their Content, like when working with content stored in Google Drive and OneDrive. To create the Group, one of the members of the group could go to their "Groups". From there they could initiate a new group. When they subsequently need to view or edit their group, or update its membership, then they get to it from their Groups. (Unfortunately the approach to sharing that ArcGIS Online takes, does not match the expectations of how you manage sharing in Google or Microsoft collaboration environments, so you cannot build on past experiences, and have to deal with a disconnect.) So rather than duplicating more of the ArcGIS Online capabilities into the StoryMaps app (i.e., group management), I would like to see user goal here addressed by moving the content management part of the StoryMaps app into ArcGIS Online Content.  In such a scenario, one might also get rid of the Map, Scene, and Notebook tabs in ArcGIS Online, and enable users to create new web maps, web scenes, and notebooks, following the same user experience they would use to create any other type of ArcGIS Online app content (e.g., StoryMaps, Survey123 form, Dashboards, Experiences, Instant Apps.) ... View more

@RobertAnderson3 the shortest way I've found to find a survey's itemID in Survey123 Connect is to use "View item in ArcGIS Online" from "More actions". In the browser window that opens, I grab the itemID from the URL. It would be nice to have the itemID directly displayed somewhere within Connect, such a with the survey's Details. (Sounds like another Idea to create...) ... View more

@tmo, the example you provided is a StoryMap Collection, which contains six StoryMaps. The link you provided goes directly to the sixth story in the collection; you can also link to the top-level of the collection. So what you are seeing when viewing a story within the collection, is the Collection's navigation bar on the top, and the StoryMap's navigation bar on the bottom: Using a StoryMap Collection is a helpful way to present readers with a two-level hierarchy for navigation, when you have enough content to warrant an additional layer of grouping. ... View more

@patriciacdale, yes, the cropping/padding only helps with improving the relative sizing between images. You are still subject to the limitations of the width of your reader's browser window. It sounds like your goal is to ensure the text in a screenshot is readable when you incorporate the image into a story using the two-column layout.  Given that you don't have control over the width of your reader's browser window, it seems like there would not be a single answer to resizing/scaling the image to keep the text readable for all possible widths. Maybe another way to achieve the goal could be to specify a minimum display width for an image?  And, if the space available in the reader's browser window for the two-column layout is less than the specified minimum for the image, then StoryMaps would revert to a single-column layout for that section. And, if the browser window is still too narrow, even using the single-column layout, then you would fall back on the reader having to pop-out the image to pan/scroll it at the resolution specified by the minimum width. (StoryMaps already reverts from two-column to single-column when a reader's browser window is narrower than 700 pixels.) ... View more

Relating to @patriciacdale's two great examples above, I wish the StoryMap's Image Editor supported cropping an image to be larger than its original size, and filled in the extra area as transparent. For the QR code example, my current approach is to make all of the images I use with left- or right-alignment the same width in an external image editor. When that means cropping (not resizing) an image to a larger width than its original width, then the extra area is filled in with transparency. The end result are images that are more appropriately sized relative to each other. ... View more

Another use case for surfacing a web map's bookmarks in Survey123 is for when you need to collect, but are not actually at the location you want to select, and need to record the location manually. When you go to collect a new survey, a geopoint question opens the map at your current GPS location. You can pan/zoom to your study area, however, this is time-consuming to do when you are on the other side of the world. It would be helpful to be able to select a bookmark to jump to your study area more quickly and easily. ... View more