Latest Contributions by StephenSylvia

Sorry, I don't understand what your question is? Is the short URL (from the share dialog) going to a different page other that the Map Series app? Something else? Or are you having trouble embedding the app in another website? If you are trying to embed the map series app, can you provide the URL to the website that is embedding the story map. ... View more

Patrick, the issue you are facing is not due to OS or browser, it more an about your browser window's aspect ratio. When setting a map's location, there are two approaches: 1. Set the map's center point and scale. In this case the scale will remain constant but the extent of the map vary greatly across different aspect ratios. For example, if you want to show the same scale on a map of the United Sates at different aspect ratios, you see this difference in extent: Widescreen Desktop Widescreen Portrait (smartphone) The east and west coast would get cropped 2. The second method is to maintain the extent but change the scale to fit that same extent in a different aspect ratios. So to fit the United States in a tall screen, the map needs to zoom out: In general, most users find preserving extent (method 2) more important than preserving scale (method 1) which is why we chose this method in our templates. In addition to aspect ratio, when you are using raster tiles in your map, the map can only be displayed at the exact scales your tiles have been rendered at (usually 19 levels) as apposed to showing an intermediate scale for best fit. When you save the map's position in the cascade, we save the coordinates from the four corners of the map size you see in the builder. When the app sets the extent of the map to the extent your saved, it will finds the scale with the extent that has the closest match to the extent you saved. In some cases this does cause minor "cropping" around the map but limits the amount of extra buffer space on the map that's not important. Here's a workflow that should limit the buffer space around the map but ensure the features in the map shows at all aspect ratios. 1. Resize your browser window so the visible map area's aspect ratio is closest to the aspect ratio of the features you want to show in the map. 2. Zoom and center your map on the features you wish to show. There should be as little buffer space as possible around all four sides of the features in the map. 3. Use the "Zoom Out" button to zoom out the map one level (this will maintain the center of the map). 4. Save this extent. As Owen mentioned, we will look to provide a better experience in the future and possibly provide more options for authors to choose how the extent of the map is set. Would it be better for the map to zoom out farther to make sure the full saved extent is always shown rather than finding scale with the closest match even if it crops some of the edges? ... View more

Answered on the Story Maps thread: https://community.esri.com/message/695003-how-can-i-use-the-images-already-attached-to-arcgis-online-layer  ... View more

We currently do not support automatically adding photos to your story from a layer of features that were collected outside of our app builders. When you collect data from Collector or a similar application, you are uploading full quality images that can be 2-4mb (or more) per image. Loading all the images in a public facing web application would cause very long load times especially on lower bandwidth connections. Our team strives to provide a good experience for all users so we have not added this capability yet. When you upload photos through the Story Map builders we automatically optimize photos for the web so they will load quickly on all devices. We are currently working with both the feature service team and the ArcGIS Online team to provide our apps optimized photos from so we can easily integrate other workflows into our apps. We do not yet have a timeline on when this feature will be released. ... View more

It's for security reasons that the sign in page cannot be loaded from within an iframe. You can download the app and configure it to take advantage of a different login method which will still work when embedded. The easy workaround if you still want to use the hosted version would be to embedded a screenshot of the app that opens the app in a new tab. If you need to embed the app, you can download the source code from our github account and change the authentication method to use oauth that opens a sign-in in a new tab. ... View more

Hi Candice, I'm the main developer for the Crowdsource app. Feel free to send me a private message here on Geonet with your feedback. ... View more

Just to verify, you have the exact same code on your wamp server as you pasted on GoogleDrive? I'm not sure why you wouldn't see modal example? Can you try hosting it on Surge (a free hosting provider): https://developerscorner.storymaps.arcgis.com/host-your-story-maps-for-free-with-surge-8bddcc4cd580 and posting a link. Don't forget to share it if you can. ... View more