Latest Contributions by PeterKnoop

ArcGIS Online provides a few ways of directly communicating important information to users: Notifications Information Banner Access Notice Currently a user is blocked from receiving messages via these channels, if they are inside the StoryMaps web space. If they are interacting solely with https://storymaps.arcgis.com, then there is no notification icon in the top-right, nor are users presented with the Information Banner or Access Notice when they visit or login to their organization. These are key messaging channels for alerting users to critical information. For example, in Higher-Education, it is an Esri recommended "best practice" to use use the Information Banner to alert students that should remember to proactively manage their content prior to graduation and losing access. The usefulness of these communication channels is also one of the rationales cited in the Idea, Consolidate Story Maps into ArcGIS Online. In the absence of incorporating the functionality of the StoryMaps landing page into ArcGIS Online, perhaps the ArcGIS Online communication channels could be integrated into the StoryMaps web space? This would enable administrators to still be able to reach users with important messages, even if the users are spending their time isolated in the StoryMaps web space. (The same problem exists with other products using siloed web spaces, such as https://experience.arcgis.com/ and https://survey123.arcgis.com/, however, it is much less likely that people using those tools are not also visiting pages in their ArcGIS Online organization, and seeing the messaging there.) ... View more

It would be helpful to have some way to easily see what changes have been made in a draft story, as compared to the published version. Particularly in cases where a series of edits over time are required, before you publish the updated story. One could view the draft and published versions of a story side-by-side in two browser tabs, however, it is easy to overlook differences that way, especially if they are minor changes. Something like a compare or diff tool that would visually highlight the differences is desired. It would help one to identify blocks that had been added, deleted, or edited since the story was last published. Use cases: A group collaboratively authoring a StoryMap. They currently have to use a Shared Update group to achieve this goal, and ensure they have a way to coordinate who is authoring the story when, so that they don't run the risk of overwriting each other's edits. When it is one of the collaborators turns to edit the story, they may have forgotten what changes they have already made, and want to see what those are. Or, they may want to see what other changes have been made by other collaborators in other parts of the story since it was last published. If you are sporadically working on updating a story, or are juggling a lot of other tasks in ArcGIS, it can be difficult to remember where you left off editing story. In which case it would be helpful to remind yourself of what changes you have already made, which haven't been published yet. When an administrator is helping someone troubleshoot issues with their StoryMap, it can be helpful to identify what changes exist in the draft versus published versions, potentially narrowing down the source of a problem. ... View more

In our ArcGIS Online organization most people need to work collaboratively with others in the system, hence, we need all of our users to be able to create Shared Update groups from the start. Please make it possible to assign the privilege of "Create with update capabilities" to a custom role, so that we can grant it to our users through New member defaults. Currently, if that privilege is assigned to a custom role, then you are unable to select that role for use with New member defaults. Manually re-assigning users to a custom role with that privilege, after their account is created, is not a scalable task for our administrators. (There are scripting workarounds, however, that is not a feasible solution for all organizations.) [This Idea originates from comments on Make ‘create group with update capabilities’ a non-admin privilege, and I am posting it as its own Idea for increased, clearer awareness @JeffShaw @AmyWork3 @ReinaCMurray @PatIampietro @ColeWhite]   ... View more