Latest Contributions by OwenGeo

Hi @SaraJL - This is expected. The intent of that button is to provide an obvious place for readers to click when they first land on the collection. After they view one or more items and come back to the overview page, the button is hidden because they are no longer "getting started" -- they have already started viewing the collection. The button is hidden to clean up the overview page to focus on the content. Have you heard from readers about this causing some confusion? If you do not want that button to appear at all, you can completely get rid of it in Collection settings by checking "Hide overview page elements." ... View more

@bkaplan1 Thanks for the additional information. The alignment is symmetrical on both sides with respect to how much the media extends outside the edges of the centered paragraph/media blocks. This is the current design for floated media blocks and there is no way to modify it at this time. As you noted, if one section is a narrow list this may cause the page to look a bit unbalanced. We are thinking about other ways for you to be able to add text and media side-by-side (similar to how you can already add multiple charts or infographics side by side). I did a quick search and didn't see an idea for this. Since the idea in this thread is already implemented, I would recommend that you add a new thread on the ideas board to share details about your idea and how it would bring value to your storytelling so others can vote for it.    ... View more

@bkaplan1 -- Thanks for posting your feedback about floating media positioning. I'm sorry, but I'm not quite sure what you are referring to. Could you please share another screenshot that's annotated to show which alignments you are referring to? Which one is like you expect and which is the one that is not as you expect? ... View more

@JonathanMcD - Thanks for sharing this idea, and we share your passion for data-driven storytelling! We are definitely looking into providing some of the capabilities you mentioned, but in the meantime there are already lots of ways to incorporate live data into ArcGIS StoryMaps. Some are by embedding apps, such as dashboards, the chart viewer instant app, etc, but there are others. Check out this article for more information: Including charts in ArcGIS StoryMaps ... View more

@BeccaBoyd - I'm sorry that this is giving you trouble. Unfortunately, there are technical/security requirements that can be confusing or frustrating when trying to embed web content in other websites. That existing PDF is shown in the story because it is being loaded using the Google Drive PDF viewer URL; it is not being directly embedded from the .org website. The URL reported in Embed options > Properties is not the full URL that is being used to view the content. It is the URL of the original PDF file extracted from the Google Drive URL parameter. Although I can't tell for sure, it appears that the Google Drive URL is what was used to originally add this to the story. Please note that embedding the PDF using the Google URL that I mentioned above does still work. It sometimes takes a very long time (I've seen 30+ seconds) for the PDF to initially appear in the story, but we have verified that it does work. I am not familiar with this viewer, so can't comment on how it works, why it might be slow, or whether permission/licensing is required to use it. I believe the fact that one of the PDFs is working like you expect has led you to believe that the PDFs on the .org site meets the security requirements, but they do not. The .org website does not have the proper security headers to enable it to be directly embedded.  Here is the pertinent part of the FAQ I mentioned above that describes the security requirements: And here is the header from one of the PDFs on the .org website showing "frame-ancestors" that does not include *.arcgis.com or some variation of it. The web admin would need to make changes on the website to modify the CSP (content security policy) to allow the PDF files to be directly embedded on other any other website or explicitly allow embedding on the ArcGIS Online domain (storymaps.arcgis.com, or *.arcgis.com). { "headers": { "accept-ranges": "bytes", "cache-control": "public, max-age=30", "cf-cache-status": "EXPIRED", "cf-ray": "9d7332b1b8df2952-IAD", "connection": "close", "content-disposition": "inline;filename=SpokaneCountyHMPVol1_State_FEMA_Review_02052026.pdf", "content-length": "20335088", "content-security-policy": "frame-ancestors 'self' https://*.granicus.com https://platform.civicplus.com https://account.civicplus.com https://analytics.civicplus.com; img-src * data: blob:; worker-src * data: blob: 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src * about: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'; style-src * 'unsafe-inline'; media-src * blob:; font-src * data:; default-src *", "content-type": "application/pdf", "date": "Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:13:24 GMT", "expires": "Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:13:54 GMT", "last-modified": "Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:13:24 GMT", "p3p": "CP=\"IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT\"", "server": "cloudflare", "vary": "Accept-Encoding", "x-content-type-options": "nosniff" }, "url": "https://www.spokanecounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/65266/Spokane-County-HMP-Vol1", "success": true }   I hope this information is helpful. Please let us know if you have more questions. ... View more

@kapalczynski - You can hide the cover in the Story settings (in the ... menu in the builder header). But if you are not interested in a scrolling experience, the best replacement for you may be the portfolio Instant App as it is the most similar to the classic Series template. ... View more

Thank you for the additional information. We are aware of the issue where the legend does not stay open and plan to address that soon in an upcoming release. We'll look into the other issue you mentioned and let you know when we have an update. ... View more

@kapalczynski - Depending on the purpose and content in the story, there are a few options for remaking a classic Series story. Make a portfolio app with ArcGIS Instant Apps. Make a story with ArcGIS StoryMaps and use the sidecar block. If you include a heading at the beginning of each slide and enable story navigation that will simulate the look of the tabbed layout in your screenshot. Other options include creating a web experience with ArcGIS Experience Builder, a collection with ArcGIS StoryMaps, or an ArcGIS Hub site. ... View more

Thanks for the update and we're happy to hear things are working as expected now. Please let us know if you encounter this again. ... View more

@VickiGazzo - I'm sorry you have encountered an issue. This is a very old thread, and there were several different situations mentioned. Could you please provide more detail about what you are seeing that is unexpected so we can best assist you? ... View more

This similar idea was closed as a duplicate (4 kudos): Select mapcontent that is published in a group layer (sidecar) ... View more