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If you are willing to customize the app you can apply the technique described in this blog post to add an index map. There is also this example of a Map Series that has an index map as one of the tabs. The code for that is on the public Map Series repository on GitHub. Owen ... View more

Kate, Sorry you have to redo those sections now, but I'm glad you found a workaround. Thanks for the additional information you provided. We will continue to try to reproduce this to isolate the issue so we can fix in a future release. Owen ... View more

Please see this GeoNet thread for more info about this issue: Map Journal - image captions ... View more

Hi Kate, Sorry you are having this issue. I can observe the in your journal and the one from the GeoNet thread you linked to. We are tracking this issue internally, and I just made an issue on our public GitHub repository that you can follow. Issues with captions and inline images in side panel · Issue #60 · Esri/map-journal-storytelling-template-js · GitHub However, I haven't been able to reproduce the issue in builder yet. Could you please let me know some more details about how you created that section that might help us isolate the problem? Owen ... View more

Pricilla, I'm not sure why the AccuWeather page is not working for you. As you can see from the screenshot above, that worked for me right away. If you post a screenshot of your configuration and share some more information about exactly what you are doing that may help me figure out what's going on. For the Twitter widgets -- unfortunately we can't allow embeds that use <script> tags in ArcGIS Online apps for security reasons. The apps support embedding <iframes> or full web pages (if the page itself allows embedding, and in your case the LAFD page does not). What you could do for the Twitter widgets is host the widget code in a simple HTML page on a web server or web file storage service (like Amazon S3 or Dropbox) and then reference that web page in your story map section. Owen ... View more

Oh, I thought we were still talking about the AccuWeather site. 😉 Did you get that one to work? The LAFD site doesn't work because the developers of that site do not allow it to be embedded. See this message in the dev console: Unfortunately, there's not really anything you can do about this. I'd suggest taking a screenshot of the site or using another firefighting-related image for your main stage and just linking to the site from some text in the side panel. I also don't often recommend embedding plain websites in the main stage unless you absolutely need your readers to read/interact with the site in the context of the story. Usually I find that treating the website as "supporting content" rather than part of your story is more helpful for audiences. This lets them open the website in a new tab, which usually helps them absorb the content more easily. Owen ... View more

Priscilla, Sorry that didn't work. Can you please share screenshots of 1) your section configuration screen and 2) the entire browser window (including address bar) so I can try to see what might be going wrong? Thanks! ... View more

Hi Pricilla, You are probably running into a mixed content error, which can happen when an app tries to access content over both http and https. My guess is that you are accessing your main Map Series app over https (probably because your organization is set to require https) and using an http link for your embedded page. You can fix this by simply using an https link for the pages you are trying to embed, like this: https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/los-angeles-ca/90012/current-weather/37845_pc Let me know if this works, Owen ... View more

Hi Michiel, This could be because you created a feature service for your tour points from the builder and that feature service isn't shared publicly (the images would require a token in that case). Here are a few things you can try: Disable attachments on your feature service and try to add your image URLs again Make the map tour app, map, and feature service public, then try to add your image URLs again Create a new Map Tour and a new feature service from the CSV template Please let me know if any of these options work for you. Owen ... View more

Hello Sophia, Currently the Map Tour only supports point features. We are looking to change this in the future, but in the meantime Kyle had a good suggestion if you still want to use the Map Tour. You could also look at using the Map Journal app for this story. You would create one web map with your trails features and use that same web map in many sections in the journal. You'd set a custom configuration for the location for each section so that each section shows a different trail. For example, see this journal: http://arcg.is/1QWhGXo (although I'd refrain from also putting the photo in the pop-up and just have any photos in the side panel). Hope this is helpful! Let me know if you have any moions.re quest Owen ... View more

Hi Pricilla, For adding the weather like that you can just add the URL that you have as your HREF property to the webpage URL box. The embed code is just for embedding code within an <iframe>. Please let me know if you are able to get this to work. Owen ... View more

Hi Michiel, If there is a token in the URL you are using then it's likely that you are not using a persistent link to your images. Image or file hosting services such as Flickr, Google Photos, Amazon S3, etc. have security that sometimes interferes with using photos as you might expect. If you could paste the URL to one of your images here that would help us troubleshoot. This error usually happens when you copy the image URLs from the address bar in your browser -- the image may work in one browser session or for a little while, but eventually the token in the link expires and the images are no longer visible in the Map Tour. The best way to use images from one of these services is to connect directly to your Flickr, Facebook, or Picasa/Google Photos account from the Map Tour Builder. If you are using a different service then 1) make sure your images are shared publicly and 2) look for a "Share" button on the image/file hosting service you are using to get the correct, persistent URL to your images. Let me know if this helps! Owen ... View more

Patrick, Great -- thanks for sharing this with the community!! We love when developers customize the apps, and we love even more when they share their handiwork so others can use and/or learn from it. Owen ... View more