Latest Contributions by PeterKnoop

Remains a bug in the web app. (Works in the field app.) No workaround that I am aware of currently. Feel free to open a support case with Esri referencing BUG-000147050 to show interest in seeing this fixed. ... View more

@Anonymous User the anchor on a scrolling page has been working well for internal linking, however, it would be great if the URL for those anchors worked when you were coming from somewhere else. For example, sticking a URL in an email or slack message that when clicked would open the Experience page to the referenced block, rather than taking them just to the top of the page containing that block. ... View more

@SaraJL not as simple a workflow as you are describing, however, if you have access to ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online, then you don't need Pro for georeferencing your images. Since you don't care about the specific geographic "location" of your image, you can just arbitrarily georeference it. Then you can use it as a web map on which you can overlay other data layers for annotation, or use it as a basemap which you can annotate in an Express Map. One way to do this is described in Interactive Images in StoryMaps. ... View more

I might suggest that it would be more intuitive if the warning was only presented if there are layers present whose sharing level is more restricted than the web map's. It would also make more sense to me to not permit a layer's sharing level to be made more restrictive as part of sharing a web map. If more restrictive sharing for a layer is needed, then it should be done by one of the myriad of ways to do it directly on the layer. ... View more

A lot of great solutions are mentioned for backups to prevent the complete loss of data through homegrown scripts and products. It seems like there is also a common thread around restore workflows, where links to a restored item are broken, when the original item was removed from ArcGIS Online, as the restored item is assigned a new item_id.  If you're interested a possible solution for this issue, please check out this Idea: Enable user to specify item_id when creating a content item in ArcGIS Online. (If you happen to be using Enterprise, instead of Online, then you can already specify the item_id when creating an item.) ... View more

@AmyNewsamthe wonderful ArcGIS Assistant is a much simpler solution when your are only interested in copying the StoryMap itself. If your story includes referenced content you have created, such as a web map and hosted feature layers for the web map, which you also want to copy, then the Notebook described here may save you some time. You can, however, achieve the same goal as the Notebook by using the Assistant to manually copy the story and copy the referenced content, and then swizzle the references in the copied story to point to the copied content. ... View more

@C-Stevens I suspect you are correct, in that the extra copies were created during those attempts with 2.0.1. Not sure what changed in the latest version to break cloning, however, glad to hear you were able to use an earlier version to achieve what you needed. I will see if I can figure out what has gone wrong with 2.0.1. ... View more

@DrewFlater that is great news! Looking forward to seeing it soon in Pro! ... View more

@Thomas1 you may be looking for more than this, however, we accomplish what I believe you are describing using the section link feature. We create a heading (or subheading) for each place in a story to which we want a link that folks can follow from an overview map. The feature layer in the overview map includes an attribute in which we store the appropriate heading link URL for the feature. We configure the pop-up to include a "More info" link using that URL. (If you want to avoid opening each link in a new tab, then use the code editor to add target="_self" to the <a> tag.) We also often add a "Back to overview map" button at the end of each section, which links to the URL of a section heading we placed just above the overview map at the top of the story. ... View more

Related to AGO Recycle Bin  ... View more

Since this blog post was published, we have found it too difficult to accurately track views or the use of content over time in ArcGIS Online. As a result, at the University of Michigan we have updated the administrator's workflow listed above under "What happens to my Content if I do nothing?" (I think it remains very important to regularly communicate these guidelines to your users, and be clear that they are indeed guidelines, and that you are not explicitly guaranteeing their content will be preserved for any length of time after they leave the university.) The new workflow outlined below assumes your institution has configured ArcGIS Online to use enterprise or SAML logins. Also, when or how often you perform the last step depends on what sort of grace period you want to provide for restoring content that someone discovers is still needed. Generate a list of users who are no longer authorized to access ArcGIS Online under your license terms. This generally includes students who have graduated, faculty who have moved to another institution, or anyone else who has left your institution. Generating this list of unauthorized users is typically something you have to do outside of ArcGIS Online. For example, first you could export a list of all of the enterprise or SAML accounts in your ArcGIS Online organization. Second you would check that list against your campus' system-of-record, such as your enterprise directory, and remove users that are still eligible to use ArcGIS Online (e.g., active students, faculty, staff, or sponsored affiliates.) You will likely need to partner with your campus IT colleagues to complete this step. Check each unauthorized user, and if they do not own content nor groups, then delete the user. Check the last login date for each unauthorized user, and reduce the list to those that have not logged-in since a specific date. It is not uncommon for students to take a year or two off from an institution. We are currently using two-academic years ago as our cutoff (e.g., if we ran this today we would use a date of 1 September 2020.) Check the sharing status of the remaining users' content items, and delete any items that are not shared.  Check groups owned by the remaining users, and if a group has no content, then delete the group. Re-check the remaining users, and if they do not own content nor groups, then delete the user. Record the remaining users' items' sharing settings in their tags, then un-share the items. At this point the remaining users' content should just be items that are shared. After an item is unshared, then if someone contacts the ArcGIS Online administrators because the content is still needed, then you can use the tags to reconstitute the sharing for the item. At this point you should also re-assign the ownership of the item to an authorized user. The last step is dependent on you only performing this workflow once per whatever time you feel is appropriate for a grace period. (Because step #7 un-shares content, that content will get deleted the next time you run step #4.) At the moment we are going with a grace period of one academic year.  You are welcome to run the workflow more often, skipping step #7. Then, at the end of your designated grace period, complete the whole workflow, including step #7. ... View more

@FredericPoliart_EsriAU would you be able to provide more details on how one can use the <embed> widget with Experience Builder in ArcGIS Online to add Google Analytics? Pasting Google's JavaScript snippet for a tag into the code block for an Embed widget does not work for me.    ... View more

@OwenGeo glad to hear you're already on it 🙂 Sounds like the scenario to avoid -- as you will loose your Google Analytics settings -- is opening Story settings, changing anything (doesn't have to be the Google Analytics settings), and then saving the settings and publishing the story. No matter what setting you change, the Google Analytics settings are lost. Instead, for now, when editing a StoryMap, and first opening Story settings, one should immediately Cancel or Close Story settings, and then open it again to safely make any changes.   ... View more