Latest Contributions by OwenGeo

Hi Robin -- Sorry you are having an issue with your Cascade story. I have seen some embedded web pages hijack the focus of the page and cause a Cascade story to jump to their location, although I haven't seen it specifically with Web AppBuilder apps. Some web pages/apps force focus and produce an unwanted experience. The best Cascade stories don't require the reader to do much interaction with the story content/maps while experiencing the story. Are you able to use a simple web map in your story to avoid embedding more sophisticated mapping apps with more buttons and features that distract from your narrative (and in this case are causing other issues as well)? You can always provide a link out to the full app (which will open in a new tab) so interested readers can do more exploring. ... View more

Donna -- We are still considering adding a setting to show the legend in a future release of Cascade. For now, if coloring text doesn't work for your story, you can add an image to serve as a legend. Simply take a screenshot of the map's legend in the ArcGIS map viewer or create your own graphic using drawing tools in PowerPoint or a more advanced drawing app like PhotoShop. ... View more

There is no practical limit to how many people can view your story map at the same time. This is one of the advantages to using a cloud platform like ArcGIS Online. The infrastructure scales to meet demand without you having to worry about it. The StoryMaps hosted on ArcGIS Online received over 2 million views over the last seven days. ... View more

Joe -- If you want to utilize YouTube URL parameters you can add your video link to the story map as Web Page instead of Video content. Keep in mind, however, that in general autoplaying videos with sound is not encouraged. In fact, if your video has sound, web browsers may block autoplaying it based on their content policies. Here are some articles with more information about how and why browsers block content autoplay: Autoplay Policy Changes  |  Web  |  Google Developers  https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/story-maps/sharing-collaboration/videos-with-sound-in-cascade ... View more

Hi Jamie -- At this time, the Story Map Builders don't support sharing a story directly to a group. But you can share stories to groups manually from your Content, as you expected. The thing to note is that story maps contain maps and layers, and all of the story's maps and layers must be shared to the group as well. When you share a story with your organization or with everyone from the builder the builder takes care of setting the sharing permissions on all of the maps and layers. But when you want to share a story to a group you need to share the story as well as all the maps and layers to the group from your Content page. If you don't own some of the maps and layers in your story you'll need to invite the owner(s) to the group and ask them share those items to the group. Here's an article with some additional information on working with story maps that might be helpful to you. ... View more

Hello Alexandra -- Sorry you are having trouble getting your audio clip into a story map. To add an audio file from the web, the link you paste into Cascade Builder must be a direct link to an MP3 file, like this: https://www.stpeterschorus.ca/extra/Mp3s/2005Spring/01%20O%20Canada.mp3  The link in your screenshot is a link to a Google Drive page, not an MP3 file. Google Drive is a very useful personal file storage service, but it's not a file hosting platform. While you can use it to upload and share files with others, sharing is accomplished via Google Drive web pages (where your files can be downloaded or previewed by others) as opposed to direct file access. As far as I can tell, Google Drive's public sharing options do not allow you to provide others with direct HTTPS access to your uploaded files, which is what 3rd party applications like Cascade Builder require to access files. To make your file available in your story you'll need to either upload the audio file directly in Cascade Builder or host it on a true web server or with a service that allows direct HTTPS access such as Amazon S3. ... View more