Latest Contributions by PeterKnoop

@ThePreatorian that is helpful advice to QA programmatically created content. Do you know where one can find a definition of the StoryMap model to check against, such as what keywords are required, optional, etc.? ... View more

@OwenGeo definitely a complicated problem! Happy as always to share pain points and use cases. Perhaps it would help to consider some more complete use cases too, rather than focusing on only the portion that intersects with StoryMaps in its current form? (Even the organization of Ideas places in this community has the unfortunate side-effect of forcing things into specific silos, which makes it difficult to figure out where/how to discuss user scenarios that span multiple aspects of the system. @SaraJL's post getting moved around being an example.) ... View more

I'm not sure I would agree user education is the answer. Why not redesign the system to match user expectations and be more intuitive? Other than users with public-only accounts, aren't users tied to an organization? Perhaps the user experience could treat organization-centric access as the primary mode of operation?  Perhaps single-purpose sites, like storymaps.arcgis.com could also be eliminated in favour of users going to their ArcGIS Organization, and then choosing to work on StoryMaps? In addition to being problematic for the use case described here, the siloing of StoryMaps into its own site feels like it goes against the idea of StoryMaps being able to integrate other aspects of ArcGIS Online in stories, such as web maps, dashboards, insights, etc. ... View more

Another potential use case for this kind of functionality, using a feature service for your Map Tour that has as its symbology "an arrow or cone that pointed in the direction that the photo was taken" (from Idea, Map Tours Points.) ... View more

I will add that we too are observing this kind of siloed user experience being detrimental to people understanding ArcGIS Online and StoryMaps. They may "get it", for StoryMaps, the day they go through a tutorial, however, they are often challenged on how to proceed again in the short term, and how to leverage other components of ArcGIS Online in the long run. The current user experience develops an unfortunate perception and disconnect among our users that all they can do is work inside StoryMaps. Once the learn they can also access their stories directly from their ArcGIS Online content -- just like other content they may be working on, such as web maps, scenes, dashboards, insights workbooks, etc. -- then they are much more comfortable doing things, and better understand that StoryMaps is just piece of an overall picture; and a piece that can bring together other types of content they can generate. A common observation is confusion around what the "filtered" view of their content -- showing just their stories -- is supposed to achieve. This is especially true when their story involves other types of ArcGIS Online content. And, a common question is, "why can't I start a new storymap or web map from 'New item' in My Content?" Often paired with observations like, "content is where all of my stuff is stored," or "content is where I create other kinds of ArcGIS Online content." If one ditched the current StoryMap landing page, then it seems like the functionality that would need to be moved -- perhaps under New item in their content, or by clicking on the ArcGIS StoryMap app in the picker -- would be to choose between creating a new story, briefing, collection, or theme, and then proceeding directly with such. This kind of user experience, shared by other tools too, enforces a siloed view of the system that might match development team structures, however, it appears to use to hinder usability.   ... View more

@jcarlson , @Tim_Shapiro the notebook is shared with everyone, however, the link provided is for running the Notebook. That means ArcGIS needs to check that you have to have the ability to run Notebooks on an ArcGIS Online organization, so you get directed to an authentication workflow. The workaround is to provide a URL to the Notebook's Overview tab on its Item Details page, which doesn't require any special privileges. You also need to use www.arcgis.com, instead of your own org, kendall.maps.arcgis.com. Try this URL to access the notebook: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=2967bae3767640038a6841714784d44c#overview This permits anyone to Preview or Download the Notebook, even if they don't have permission to run Notebooks on their own ArcGIS Online org. ... View more

@JesseCloutier in terms of temporary workarounds what I currently do is google, e.g., "arcgis online ideas storymaps". Usually the top link returned will take you directly to the product's Ideas place. In some scenarios, however, both googling and your workaround are not helpful. For example, if I'm not exactly sure of what a product name is, or if I'm looking for a product that is unexpectedly lumped under another product. Seeing the complete list would help me sort that out easily and quickly. For example, using your approach, if I enter "Map Viewer" in the overall search and then click on Places, I get 0 results. For "FieldMaps" you get 0 results, but for "Field Maps" you can get to the right place. It is hard to infer what the correct thing is by searching, as no results doesn't mean you're wrong. Looking through a complete list, however, is a fully constrained exercise. If I don't see Map Viewer itself listed, then I know I should look under another product. If I'm looking for Field Maps, then I will find it in the list, regardless of whether it is listed as FieldMaps or Field Maps. ... View more

It is also frustrating, when you are using a large, high resolution monitor, that the page has a bunch of blank space after the last item, and that the drop-down to change items-per-page is off the bottom of the screen, so that you have to scroll down to it. ... View more

I would suggest this is part of a larger disconnect between how people expect groups and content to work, and the current ArcGIS Online implementation. Most of our users are confused by the limited, two-level structure of Content. They expect to be able to treat content like a regular file system, and have as many levels of folders as they need. When it comes to a group's Content, they expect the group's content to be in a folder they can navigate to in their content. Similar to what they do in shared file-systems, such as OneDrive, Google Drive, DropBox, Box, etc. So, as this post suggests, if they opened an item from their Content when viewing a directory listing of their group's folder, then they expect to be returned to the same view of Content. ... View more

It would be very helpful to have a way to quickly find the Idea place for a product, as @lmurrayADOT notes. When I go to the Browse All Idea Exchanges page, I would like to have a search option to type in a product name, such as "StoryMaps" to find its Idea Exchange.  Alternatively, since there are currently only 94 Idea Exchanges, display them all on one page, so I can use my browser's built-in search capability to find the right place in the text of the page. ... View more

The lines that shape our cities nicely illustrates the aspect of self-hosting as it relates to hosting custom CSS and JavaScript along side the StoryMap in which you are embedding it. In other words, hosting both the story and embedded custom code on the same domain. In this specific case, since it is an Esri authored StoryMap, they appear to have access to the storymaps web server to host their embedded custom code  (i.e., https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2020/redlining-timeline/timeline-horizontal.js) As far as I know, the rest of us don't have access to similarly post custom code to the storymaps web server. So self-hosting would be an avenue to enable us to host our storymap and our embedded custom code on the same domain. ... View more