Latest Contributions by StephenSylvia

At this time the Map Journal app does not support time-enabled layers when you load a map into the Main Stage. The best way to accomplish this would be to publish your web map in the Time Aware template then embed it in the Map Journal as a web map. Here’s a blog post that explains the process: http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2015/08/03/how-to-make-a-time-aware-story-map/. ... View more

At this time, ArcGIS.com does not allow for custom urls for stories. You can accomplish this by downloading the code and hosting the app code on your own server. The app can be configured with the same application id that use with the online builder so you won’t have to recreate your story. ... View more

Unfortunately you will not be able to do this with the hosted version of the bulleted layout. You would need to download the code, modify the javascript and host the customized version on your own server. The tabbed layout in the Map Series app will allow you to change the text in the tab. It functions the exact same way as the bulleted layout except the tabs are not circles. ... View more

The best way to accomplish this is to add custom CSS to the index.html page. At the top of the body section you will find a empty style tag with comments to add your CSS. The CSS3 nth-child selector (http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/sel_nth-child.asp) will allow you to target individual tabs to change their color respectively. ... View more

If you are using the builder with the “edit” url parameter, all content configuration is stored in a JSON data file on ArcGIS Online that is stored along side the application item page. Even if you use the builder from a version of the app you host and modify, it still references the item page and JSON config that is stored within “My Content” of ArcGIS online. When you move the app to your own organization’s server you will not lose your edits to the app. ... View more

The last two commits in this git repo (https://github.com/ssylvia/growth-of-cities) shows the code we changed for our version of the app. You may need to change this slightly depending on what you want to show in the map. The readme in this app has instructions to set up your computer to run and build your application so it is ready for production. Part of the context map implementation requires that the web map you use be configured in a very specific way. Heres the web map we¹re using in the growth of cities story: http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=56fa6622c4f44e69af8f874411a0a11a. To create the map, you will need to add a CSV layer to a  web map. No other feature collection layer types can be included in your map. Attached is the CSV we used. Required fields are index, active, any text needed to display in the tooltip, and fields needed to geocode the point (lat/long or address fields). In the active field, you must have at lease one TRUE and one FALSE (it doesn't matter which one as the app will change these as needed) value so you can symbolize through the ArcGIS online viewer. All point symbology is pulled through the web map configuration. After you add the CSV layer, remove the popups from that layer. Then symbolize the points using Unique Values on the active field. The index field determines when each point will highlighted based on the map journal position. If you open the web console on the map journal and scroll through, you should see a line that looks like this: "tpl.core.MainView - navigateStoryToIndex -  1". The number at the end is the index number you should use for that point in the CSV. If you rearrange the map journal entries, you will need to update the CSV layer with their new index. Lastly, you can update line 101 in the ContextMap.js file to make sure you are pulling the correct attribute into the tooltip. You may want to start with the original map journal source code (Esri/map-journal-storytelling-template-js · GitHub)  as the age of cities version used a map journal version that is outdated with an outdated API. ... View more

Yes, the builder is also available through the locally hosted version which is why the builder css/javascript files are included. You and access it by adding the 'edit=true' to the end of the url. For example: http://www.example.com/myMapJournal/?edit=true or if your configuring the app id through the url: http://www.example.com/myMapJournal/?appId=12as2...&edit=true ... View more

Hmm, it looks like this could be an incompatibility with Pancake.io. It looks like Pancake (Dropbox Basic Usage - Pancake Docs​) and font files are not included. When I load the font file directly from dropbox, it appears to display the icons correctly. However, when using the pancake URL, the icons get converted back to the normal alphanumeric characters. ... View more