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The spacing between bullet items was increased in an update that was deployed yesterday. This should improve the readability of lists in StoryMaps. For anyone looking for more control over the styles of text or other elements in a StoryMap you can check out advanced embedding, which gives you complete control over the styling of your StoryMap when you embed it in your own web page. Introducing Story Embeds via Script!
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@Kyle_Kaskie - This bug was addressed in an update yesterday. Please let us know if you are still experiencing issues.
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@K_Jueckstock -- Oh, I forgot to mention that for question 1 you can select a field to your feature layer that has the order you want the places to appear as the Sort by field in the data source configuration panel. For example, you could sort them alphabetically by place name. If none of the existing fields has the order you want, you can add a new integer field to the feature layer and populate it with numbers that specify the order you want.
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@Mark-CoWP - Yes! The ability to show live embeds on mobile is available. Please see this blog for details: What's new in ArcGIS StoryMaps (January 2023)
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@K_Jueckstock Thanks for sharing your feedback about categorized tours! 1. Currently, categorized tours are available via the data-driven workflow (created from a feature layer), which does not have a way to reorder the points in the builder. If possible, you could recreate your feature layer from a spreadsheet in the order you wish the points to appear. Out of curiosity, do you expect the amount of tour locations to be changing after you create your tour, or will the list be set once you create your tour? 2. Can you share a GIF or video of what you are seeing? The navigation arrow does move out of view after you scroll past the entire tour and move on to the next part of the story. We'd be interested to see the situation you are experiencing to make sure it's not a bug. 3. We're looking into adding the ability to change the icon color. Could you share whether you just don't like the automatic white or black choice and would pick the other or whether you want to use other colors for the icons? 4. As @ZachMadden noted above, that feature is not available at this time. We recommend setting the Initial zoom level in the map settings to a scale that's zoomed out enough to see what's important for all locations. It would be helpful if you could please add these as individual requests to the Ideas board (or vote for existing ideas) so others can weigh in and upvote them. We use the information there to help us prioritize future updates and enhancements.
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@SouravKumarBiswas - I apologize you have not been able to duplicate your StoryMap. Please contact Esri Technical Support and an analyst will be happy to help you look into this.
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We are looking at both of these ideas. An outline around the current text block is coming this week.
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@MichaelFeerer - There isn't a setting to increase the logo size in the header, but you can choose to show the logo on the cover, which is a larger size. These options are in the Design panel. If you want more flexibility to style elements in your story, you can look into the relatively new advanced embedding feature that lets you customize anything in the story using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code when you embed a story in your own web page. For more info, see Introducing Story Embeds via Script!
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@JanetSilb_Spike - Excellent! I think you should have an easy time with this workflow if you are already familiar with Arcade. We also recently published an additional blog with more information about HTML formatting techniques. Format place descriptions for data driven map tours using HTML
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@RoseCohen - I hope you'll be happy to learn that Undo/redo was added to StoryMaps in Nov 2022! Please see this blog post for more information. What's new in ArcGIS StoryMaps (November 2022)
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@indyencyclopedia - I believe we have isolated the issue and we are working on a fix. We hope to release it in an upcoming deployment next month.
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The classic Esri Story Maps templates are scheduled to be retired in early 2026. For more information and resources about the retirement, see the Classic Esri Story Maps Roadmap for Retirement. If you are looking to preserve one or more of your most popular Shortlist stories, you can use the simple process outlined below to migrate a Shortlist layer to a hosted feature layer that can be immediately used in ArcGIS StoryMaps. Note: After the classic templates are retired, you will be unable to view existing classic stories using their arcgis.com URLs. However, your classic story content items, such as the web maps that contain the data for classic Shortlist stories, will remain. This means you can migrate your classic stories to ArcGIS StoryMaps even after the retirement date has passed. Convert the Shortlist layer into a feature layer The first part of this process involves finding the Shortlist layer and converting it to a hosted feature layer. Here’s are the steps to follow to do this: Go to your ArcGIS Content page. Find a web map that contains a Shortlist layer and open its item page. The web map typically has the same name as the Shortlist web mapping application item. On the web map's item page, click Open in Classic Map Viewer Find the Shortlist layer in the layer list and click ... then Save layer. Go back to your ArcGIS Content page and open the item page for the new feature layer you created in the previous step. On the feature layer item page, click Publish. This workflow currently requires the classic map viewer, which is also scheduled to be retired in early 2026. The new map viewer will be updated with this capability in an upcoming release. When that occurs, we will look to update this blog. Create the map tour Once you’ve created the feature layer, you can create a map tour in a new story or any existing story. Go to ArcGIS StoryMaps and create a new story (or edit an existing story where you want to add the new categorized tour). Click the green (+) button, select Map Tour, then Start with a feature layer, and then the hosted feature service layer you created in the previous steps. Finally, configure the map tour as needed. You can change the tour to use the Categorized layout, if needed, and select fields to display the information fields you want in the tour and categorize the places. See the resource links below for more info about the available options and tips. More resources Here are some more resources for learning more about map tours. Use — or create — a feature service to build a map tour in ArcGIS StoryMaps Create a data-driven map tour Using ArcGIS Arcade to your story's advantage Format place descriptions for data driven map tours using HTML Looking to migrate other types of classic stories? Try the Classic Story Conversion Helper - Esri Community
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In a previous post, we shared how to use Arcade to combine information from several feature layer fields into a new field that can be used for a map tour description. The process in that blog works well when your tour requires a short description, but you can take this to the next level and use HTML formatting if your tour places need longer descriptions with multiple paragraphs, lists, and links. It’s easy to create a nicely formatted description field for your data driven map tour using some basic HTML. There are several ways you can do this. If you are starting with data in a spreadsheet or CSV, you can do the calculations in your favorite spreadsheet app such as Excel or Google Sheets. If you already have a feature layer, you can use the field calculator on the Data tab of the feature layer’s item page. Anatomy of a description field The goal is to produce a single field that includes all the text needed for your description and any required formatting using HTML markup. The HTML will be parsed when your tour is shown, so your readers won’t see the HTML tags, they will see the result of the formatting applied by the markup. Here’s a simple example. If you create a description that looks like this: <p>This is the first paragraph.</p><p><a href="https://example.com">This is a link</a></p> It will look like this in the map tour: This is the first paragraph. This is a link Here's a screenshot of a more robust concatenated description in a map tour. You can view this feature layer and inspect the "Full description" field to see the field information needed for this description: Great Places Shortlist layer - Data. Calculating the description First, add a new column for your calculated description and give it a name. Next, construct the formula you need to calculate the values for your new field. You’ll simply string together information from existing fields along with HTML tags. To calculate values for your description field you can use Arcade functions such as CONCATENATE or the & operator in your favorite spreadsheet tool. To structure your description, you can include HTML tags for paragraphs (p), lists (ol, ul, and li), and line breaks (br). For formatting, you can include bold (b or strong), italic (i or em), superscript (sup), subscript (sub), and links (a). Link tags support the href and target attributes. You may also need to include spaces or other punctuation, depending on how your existing information is stored or formatted. In a spreadsheet, be sure to use double quotes around any text or HTML markup you add since you’ll want that text to be added as-is to the calculated field. In Arcade, you use single quotes for this. If you are using links and need to include double quotes in your calculated formula, make sure you use extra double quotes as escape characters. Examples Below are a few examples of the syntax you’ll need to use. In a spreadsheet, combine info from column A and column B (in row 2) as separate paragraphs: ="<p>"&A2&"</p><p>"&B2"&"</p>" In a spreadsheet, combine info from column A and column B as a single paragraph (with a period and space between them) and column C as a second paragraph: ="<p>"&A2&". "&B2&"</p><p>"&C2&"</p>" In a spreadsheet, start with info from column A and add a link using a URL in column B (which opens in a new tab) and has "More info" as the link text. ="<p>"&A2&"<p><a href="""&B2&""" target=""_blank"">More info</a></p>" Using the field calculator with Arcade, include info in fields named Paragraph1 and Paragraph2 as the first two paragraphs, and include a third paragraph that contains a hyperlink using the text “Website Link” and the URL stored in a field named “URL”. Concatenate(['<p>', $feature.Paragraph1, '</p><p>', $feature.Paragraph2, '</p><p><a href=“’, $feature.URL, ‘ >Website Link</a></p>’]) Resources If you need a primer on basic HTML, here are some good resources. https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_paragraphs.asp https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_lists.asp https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_formatting.asp More info on map tours. Use — or create — a feature service to build a map tour in ArcGIS StoryMaps Create a data-driven map tour Using ArcGIS Arcade to your story's advantage
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@JanetSilb_Spike Thanks for sharing what you are looking to do with your map tour and the limitation you ran into. We are working on a way to easily add a link from a URL field in a feature layer. We don't have a specific timeline on this, but I believe it may be added in a release later this year. For now, you can review the information in the blog linked below that describes how you can combine information from different fields into a single field that you can use for your map tour description. Using ArcGIS Arcade to your story's advantage We are also working on a follow-up blog that covers how to use basic HTML to format the description field using multiple paragraphs, list, links, and more. We hope to post that later this month.
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@damatovm - I looked into #1 and it is a known issue we were already tracking. We hope to release a fix in the next month or two.
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