Latest Contributions by OwenGeo

Hello! This thread has collected additional ideas beyond the initial one that was posted. As mentioned in the ArcGIS Ideas Submission Guidelines, it's best to have "one submission = one idea" so community members understand what they are voting for and development teams can clearly differentiate specific features and enhancements. If would be great if one of the subsequent commenters (@HelenCooper, @tt5vw1, @SaraJL, @KathrynHailes) could please create a separate idea for including the ability to show a pop-up when a map action is triggered so that can be tracked separately. (Also...good news -- that feature is in development!). ... View more

@DfIRivers -- Yesterday's planned release was delayed until tonight (our release notes will be updated to reflect this tomorrow), so this hasn't been fixed just yet. However, when you try this again tomorrow, be sure to not use a short URL in your iframe. Short URLs are for conveniently sharing a link with someone else, but shouldn't be used when providing a URL for an embed or in HTML code. Since a short URL needs to be resolved into its full form, you may experience unexpected results. Be sure to always use the full URL in these cases.   ... View more

@NikhilLalwani -- I'm sorry you are experiencing this issue with your StoryMap. Were you changing the sharing from the Sharing settings option or were you republishing? I was going to suggest that you unpublish and republish the story to see if that addresses the issue. If that doesn't work, we do have a fix coming for an issue with subscription/premium content layers in an update tomorrow evening. If the steps above don't work now, please try them again Thurs morning and let us know if you are still seeing the issue. ... View more

@MatthewBane -- Can you say more about your requirement that the launching pad be a native app? You can already create a collection and use that as a launching point for stories, ArcGIS content, or other links, and collections have a pretty good mobile experience. Here are some collections you can view on your phone to see how they look/work on mobile devices: Discover the possibilities with ArcGIS StoryMaps! (grid cover layout) Our favorite stories of 2023 (arcgis.com) (journal cover layout) The Deep (arcgis.com) (journal cover layout) K-8 Stories and Resources (arcgis.com) (magazine cover layout) If you think this might work, here's an article to help you learn more about collections: Start your first ArcGIS StoryMaps collection (esri.com) ... View more

FYI, the "tour progress lines" feature mentioned above was added to ArcGIS StoryMaps in Nov 2022. What’s new in ArcGIS StoryMaps (November 2022) (esri.com) ... View more

Hello @TimHoeflich1 - Thanks for sharing your feedback on this topic.   When we built ArcGIS StoryMaps we looked to provide more storytelling capabilities, a higher level of security, and make it easier to do many things that required special coding skills in the classic templates. There are now lots of things you can do with the builders that you needed code for in the past.  It would be great if you could provide more information about what you did in your classic story that required using HTML. Could you share some details? At this time, using HTML code inside a story is not supported. This is something that may come in the future, but currently you can use one of the available themes or make your own custom theme selecting from over 1000 fonts, using your own colors, and choosing from different style options. You can also use our classic conversion helper to assist the process of migrating your text and media to ArcGIS StoryMaps. Try the Classic Story Conversion Helper - Esri Community We also have several helpful articles that provide tips and guidance for migrating. Recreating a classic story with ArcGIS StoryMaps (esri.com) Moving to ArcGIS StoryMaps Mimicking the classic templates in ArcGIS StoryMaps (esri.com)   The screenshot you've shared is a code block. The purpose of a code block is to include code snippets as part of your story. For example, you have a short Python script or Arcade express you want to share with your readers. Check out this story as an example of how the code block is used: Spike Maps (arcgis.com) ... View more

These stories specifically mention CityEngine: Evaluating Development Proposals with 3D GIS (arcgis.com) Determining the Skyline Impacts of a Proposed Development (arcgis.com) 3D Models (arcgis.com) Not sure if these stories with 3D content are from CityEngine or not. They may be from ArcGIS Pro as multipatch features. At the very base of things (arcgis.com) Building for tomorrow (arcgis.com) ... View more

@DfIRivers -- We have an enhancement coming March 20 that will add support for hashed URL embeds that should resolve this issue for you. ... View more

I'm sorry, we don't know. I would think the work the Dashboard team did would allow file downloads in other embedded scenarios outside of StoryMaps. It would be good to check with those teams if you are seeing an issue with that combination of apps. ... View more

The logo enhancement mentioned above, along with a few more, will be released next month. ... View more

@SaraJL - No worries, and sorry about the back and forth. I understand it is not always clear where to post things, but the main things is that it's good you are getting the conversation started somewhere! Once we dig into an issue, it sometimes becomes clear that a different audience is needed to hear and implement the suggestion, and I think that's the case here. This is essentially an idea to improve the core ArcGIS sign in experience that ArcGIS Online and other apps use to help new users understand they are part of an org and prevent signing in or creating new accounts. ----- One other note is that you should be sure to tell people to check the "Remember this URL" box when signing in. This is how you can store the context of your organization on your computer. (This isn't a complete solution since it doesn't apply across different computers and still falls under user education, but it is something you can try to do now if you're not already.) So if a user who has done this navigates directly to another ArcGIS app, like StoryMaps, when they sign in they'll be prompted to click their org name (in my case the org name is "Story") to get their org-specific login options. After clicking that button, you'll see only the sign-in options your org has enabled. You can see below in my org we have a SAML/Okta login option and no social logins available. ... View more

> Why not redesign the system to match user expectations and be more intuitive? Other than users with public-only accounts, aren't users tied to an organization? Perhaps the user experience could treat organization-centric access as the primary mode of operation?  This is an interesting idea! However, to get any traction, I would recommend posting it to the ArcGIS Online ideas board since it is the platform's sign-in experience that would need to be changed. Any changes implemented there could then be picked up by individual apps. > Perhaps single-purpose sites, like storymaps.arcgis.com could also be eliminated... More discussion on the idea of consolidating ArcGIS app sites is on this thread... Consolidate Story Maps into ArcGIS Online - Esri Community ... View more

@PeterKnoop @SaraJL Thank you for these thoughtful comments. I certainly understand and acknowledge the situation you describe. Our intent is never to create more work or confusion because of our internal organization or development team practices, and we appreciate you raising some of the workflow difficulties you've encountered! The solution prescribed here (consolidating into ArcGIS Online the StoryMaps site -- and potentially other similarly architected ArcGIS app sites like Hub, Experience Builder, Insights, Survey123, Urban, Business/Community Analyst, GeoPlanner, and more), however, is an enormous amount of effort (even for just one of those teams) and would eliminate many tangible benefits in terms of performance, frequent/flexible releases, improved SEO, and many other features. So while I'm not sure that suggestion is the best place to start, we're very interested in thinking about how we can address some of the usability issues that you've identified. From my team's perspective, we'd like to understand more about specific pain points using StoryMaps (like the multiple BACK arrows, creating StoryMaps from the ArcGIS Content page, etc.) so we can look into addressing them. From a larger perspective, true consolidation is a complex issue that involves many parts of ArcGIS. It may be helpful to discuss it, as well as specific workflow issues, at our annual education group meeting at UC with some members of the core ArcGIS Online team and possibly other app teams. WDYT? ... View more