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Hi Rachel, I'm sorry you are having an issue with adding media. We'll look into keeping the URL visible in a future release, but in the meantime, here's some information that will help answer your questions: >> If I wanted to copy the image I used in a previous panel to add to another panel, how can I? Where has the URL gone and is there still a way to access the web address to the already saved image or video? Right click the image in the Edit Section panel and choose Copy Image Address (the name of this option may vary depending on which browser you use). Then you can paste the image URL into another section. >> And is there a way to override a saved image/video and replace it with another image/video? Yes, if you click "<BACK" at the bottom LEFT [edited] of the "Insert Image, Video, or Web Page" panel you can select a different piece of media of the same type you already have added. Please let me know if this helps! Owen
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Here is the blog post about creating buttons for Main Stage Actions: https://developerscorner.storymaps.arcgis.com/create-buttons-for-main-stage-actions-using-the-style-tag-144b3aeb5583 Owen
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Hi Jay, Sorry you are having trouble accessing your story map. If you are having trouble with your account I would try emailing Esri Customer Service at [email protected]. Let them know your username and perhaps they will be able to find it and see if your story map is still available. Owen
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Enrico, Here are some good examples of how others have published a story map in multiple languages: Gallery | Story Maps (tag:multiple languages) -- There are several examples in our gallery. Most have a link in the header area to open the story in an alternate language. http://geoapps.esri.co/colombiaturistica/ -- Esri Columbia created a cover page for this story that lets the reader select a language. Ogooué: Field Notes from Gabon's Great River | The Nature Conservancy -- See the link below the embedded story to access the French version of this story. Owen
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Hola, Google Translate: Desafortunadamente, no hay opción de añadir un selector de mapa base en Story Map Series. Si desea que su lector a ver una capa con un mapa base diferente puede agregar otro mapa en una entrada separada que muestra que la capa con un mapa base diferente. Unfortunately there is no option to add a basemap selector in Story Map Series. If you'd like your reader to see a layer with a different basemap you can add another map in a separate entry that shows that layer with a different basemap. Owen
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Hi Enrico, The Storytelling Apps currently support narrative in a single language only, so the recommended workflow that you discovered in the gallery of publishing a different story for each language is currently the best way to go about this. We are looking at supporting multiple languages for the story narrative in the future; however, we do not have any specific plans or timetable for this feature. If you have any ideas or thoughts as to how you'd like this to work in our storytelling apps, please post them here so we can incorporate them into our requirements. Owen
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Hi Rachel, The current behavior is that the full title is shown as you hover over the thumbnail unless there is a summary defined, and in that case the summary is shown. We agree with you that the title is the most helpful piece of information when picking a map when building a story, so we'll update this at the next release (March 1) to always show the full title on hover. We are also making a change at the next release to sort your maps by date so your newest/most recently updated maps are always shown when the picker first opens. We want to make more significant changes to the web map picker, but we are working to make some small improvements for March that will improve the experience until we make more significant changes in the future. Thanks for the feedback! Owen
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Hi Michelle and Jamie, Thanks for your interest. The Story Maps Crowdsource app is scheduled for the Summer 2016 release of ArcGIS Online. I apologize for the delay. We have been waiting for some key enhancements to the ArcGIS Platform that we need to take advantage of to make this a great hosted app, and those are almost in place. As stated above, we may have a download before summer, so watch GeoNet for an announcement of that. Michelle -- As far as your questions about the currently available crowdsource apps, I think the best place on GeoNet to ask about those is either the Solutions or ArcGIS Online Templates place. Owen
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Great to hear, James! Due in part to your feedback we are now working on some additional changes to sharing story maps on social networks that should be released at the end of February, so stay tuned! Owen
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Hi Hannah, The &embed URL parameter only works with other storytelling apps (like Swipe, Map Tour, etc.). I'd recommend using Main Stage Actions to help your viewers turn layers on/off. Here's a blog post that describes how to use them: Using Story Map Journal Main Stage Actions | ArcGIS Blog If you are comfortable working with code, here's a blog on styling your Main Stage Actions as buttons: https://medium.com/story-maps-developers-corner/create-buttons-for-main-stage-actions-using-the-style-tag-144b3aeb5583 You might also find this GeoNet thread about which apps have a layer toggle control interesting: Which AGO applications allow users to turn layers on and off? If you do want a layer toggle you can try embedding your web app builder app without the &embed parameter or use one of the other configurable apps like Map Tools or Basic Viewer. Owen
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Hi James, Regarding sharing your story maps on social media...even when what is generated via the Facebook and Twitter buttons is better, it's still just a small thumbnail and a short description. While it's still good to make sure your thumbnail and metadata are updated as Greg described (so when others use these buttons they don't create a post with generic/confusing information), there's a better alternative that you can suggest to your marketing department... Send them a nice screenshot of your story map and have them share that and the short URL to your story in a Facebook post or tweet. Crafting your own post in this way makes your work stand out much better on social media feeds. If you check out the Esri Facebook page and Story Maps Twitter feed you can see some examples of this, like the ones below. Hope this is helpful! Owen
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CE - is the feature service on your GIS server enabled for editing? Did you create the service using the same fields as the template CSV that you can access in the Map Tour app or wire up the fields in Settings > Data? Owen
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Hi Beth, I can address your question as it applies to Story Maps and also take this opportunity to explain a little bit about our team's design philosophy. Hopefully others will also chime in with their experiences using other configurable apps. There are configurable apps with nice, simple experiences for exploring data (Finder), or analyzing data in a specific way (Elevation Profile), or getting a standard report on a layer (Summary Viewer). There are also generic apps (Basic Viewer, Map Tools, Web AppBuilder) that are widget-based and let you add pieces of standard GIS functionality like search, layer toggling, etc. Just like all app development teams at Esri, the Story Maps team strives to design our web apps to have very simple user experiences. Our team focuses on storytelling, so the list of features that are -- and are not -- included in each storytelling app is based on the answer to the question: does this tool/button/feature help the author tell a story or the reader understand a story? In many cases, tools that are familiar to GIS professionals -- the tools that professionals use to create maps and explore and analyze geographic data -- are not always necessary or helpful to general audiences in a storytelling app. The best stories are usually ones where the author determines the maps (combinations of layers) that are most important and creates and includes those specific maps in the story. By doing this the author helps the audience focus their mental energy on the story rather than which button or checkbox to click next. That being said, one of the great things about Story Maps (and web mapping apps in general) is that they contain live, dynamic maps, so our storytelling apps let authors to present different map views at particular points in the story. This enables interactive storytelling techniques like automatically showing a different combination of layers when the reader gets to a new section of the story or navigating to a specific area of the map when they click a location name in the story narrative. So layer toggling and other ways of changing what's shown on the map are possible in many of the storytelling apps, but they don't appear in the form of a traditional table of contents or layer visibility widget. The storytelling apps help authors create specific experiences for their audience that are activated in the context of their stories. Here's a summary of how layer toggling behavior is or isn't implemented in our most popular Storytelling apps. For help choosing the right storytelling app for your story you can use our Create Story Wizard, which you can learn more about here. Story Map Basic -- No layer toggling. Basic is a simple app meant to show a single map with a small amount of explanatory text, so there are no tools other than map navigation and pop-ups. Story Map Tour - A Map Tour contains one very simple map with a single point layer of tour locations and a basemap for context. There's no layer toggling in a Map Tour. The story is about the locations in the photos and their relative location to each other. Map Tour also doesn't need a legend, since all the points are a single color, nor does it need a scale bar since it's usually not important to be able to measure distances, so these standard GIS widgets aren't included to keep the user interface simple. Story Map Shortlist - Shortlist has several tabs that represent themes or categories of places. Navigating to a different tab toggles to a different layer of points of interest. Shortlist is similar to Map Tour so has a similarly sparse set of map features. Story Map Swipe/Spyglass - The Swipe/Spyglass app itself is a sort of layer toggle. Its enables the audience to either wipe away (swipe) or peer through (spyglass) one map (set of layers) to compare it to another. A Swipe app can be embedded in other storytelling apps like Map Series or Map Journal to create a story section that provides the audience with an interactive comparison. Story Map Series - Map Series allows the author to present and describe different maps in each entry. When adding a map to a section of a Map Series story the author can set the map configuration; this includes 1) which layers are visible as well as 2) the area shown by the map and 3) if there is a feature pop-up visible. The tabs in a Map Series can easily show a one map with different sets of layers toggled on or off as needed to tell the story. Story Map Journal - As with Map Series, Map Journal lets the author configure the view for each map when it's added to a section of the story, so layers can be toggled between sections. Map Journal also supports main stage actions, which let the author create hyperlinks in the context of the story narrative that change the appearance of the map (such as toggling layers). Main stage actions can also change what is shown in the main stage (from a map to an video, image to a website, map to a different map, etc.). You can learn how to use main stage actions in this blog post. If you are ok working with HTML code here's a blog on how to create buttons for your main stage action links. I hope that wasn't too soapboxy, but that it gives you and others some insight into how we view the role of storytelling apps in the Web GIS landscape. If there are features that you are looking for in particular apps, please post your ideas to the ArcGIS Ideas site; we do look there after every software release to see what people are asking for. Despite what I wrote above, just because a feature isn't currently in an app doesn't necessarily mean we are philosophically opposed to considering it! 😉 We want the storytelling apps to be useful and meet your needs, so please let us know how we can improve them. Owen Evans Story Maps Product Engineer
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Hi Beth, Most (if not all) app configuration tools report the web map. If you go to the item page and click Configure App to open the configuration panel you'll find the web map name(s) in one of the configuration sections. See examples below for the Basic Viewer and Finder apps. For Story Maps, you'll see the maps already added to the story when in Builder mode. For example, in Map Series or Map Journal if you edit a section you'll see the map name and also have a button to Edit the map right inside Builder if you want to make changes. For Story Maps you can also visit the My Stories section of the Story Maps website to see all your stories and a list and status report on the maps, images, websites, and other resources they contain. You can change how the map is shared or open it in the ArcGIS.com map viewer to inspect it or make changes to the map. I also find it helpful to use folders in My Content to keep together items that are used in the same app and to separate draft and final versions of items. For each story map or app I'm working on I create two folders, one "draft" folder and one "final" folder. I use the draft folder when I'm working on the project and then when it's done I move my finished items into the "final" folder when the project is still fresh in my mind and I know which maps and layers are which. Hope this helps! Owen
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Hi Matt, Sorry you are having an issue with your story map. I branched your comment into a new thread since you are having a separate issue as well. Are you using Map Journal or Map Series? Is the web map slow when you view it in the ArcGIS.com map viewer or just in the story map? How many layers are in the web map and are there a lot of detailed features in any of the layers? Could you make your story and it's maps/layers public and post (or private message me) the URL so I can take a look? Owen
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