Latest Contributions by OwenGeo

Hi Scott, Not at this time. We think covers work best as looping videos that give the audience a sense of your story rather than an "introduction" that has a beginning and an end; however, we have heard this request from a few other people, so we are considering adding it in a future release. If you have a video that you want your audience to watch in its entirety as an introduction to your story, I'd recommend adding it as an in-line video in the first sequential section of your story or possibly to an immersive section that immediately follows your cover. You'd then use an image (or other looping video) for your cover. Owen ... View more

Hi Jacob, Cascade doesn't support font size changes to immersive section titles at this time. While there aren't controls to select a specific font size for the narrative panel text, you can increase it to a larger size by clicking the formatting button to the left of the first line in the panel and choosing H2. Hope this is helpful. Owen ... View more

Hi Joshua, For technical reasons, the ability to use custom HTML is available only in Map Journal. The EPA story is a Map Series with Map Journals (each with a single section) embedded in several of the tabs. They customized Map Journal to hide the header bar and hosted their modified version on their servers. For example, here is one of the Journals: https://geopub.epa.gov/CREAT1/index.html?appid=f629f537c1bc4b529e4f0487677930fe  Owen ... View more

Matt, Here's a blog on embedding story maps inside story maps that's been updated recently with a few tips about Cascade. Embedding a Story Map within a Story Map | ArcGIS Blog  In general, we'd recommend using this technique only when it's essential to your overall goal or story, so exercise caution and good judgement so as to not create something confusing and/or overwhelming for your audience. Often a set of individual story maps presented simply on a page of your website is better than trying to mash stories together into a single story map. I would say embedding other story maps inside a Cascade story is not a good path to start down. The best Cascade stories we see are simple for the reader to use. Readers scroll through the story and the author configures the maps to show what needs to be shown at each point in the story. Introducing other elements that the reader has to stop and figure out how to interact with is often a distraction from the main story. If there is supplemental or background information in another story map you can provide a link to that story so interested readers can open it immediately or at a later time when they are ready. While it can work to embed a Cascade inside a Map Series or Map Journal, I would be cautious about this as well. Make sure to test your story at several screen resolutions to ensure it provides the experience you expect for anyone that reads it. Hope this is helpful! Owen ... View more

Hi Brian, I'm not familiar with GeoPlanner, but is there a way to export the results to a "regular" (non secure) layer? You might try posting that question to the GeoPlanner GeoNet space: https://community.esri.com/community/gis/applications/geoplanner-for-arcgis  Thanks for sharing the links to your stories, but unfortunately I can't open them (I assume because of the secure layers), so I'm unable to troubleshoot. Owen ... View more