Latest Contributions by OwenGeo

‎02-27-2026

@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.

‎02-27-2026

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.

‎02-27-2026

@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.

‎02-27-2026

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.

‎02-27-2026

@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?

‎02-26-2026

Thanks for sharing this feedback. This is something we are looking into. If you would like to see this implemented in ArcGIS StoryMaps, please vote for this idea and add any additional information about how it would be useful or valuable to you. Possibility to toggle visibility of sublayers in grouped layers

‎02-26-2026

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

‎02-26-2026

Closing this as a duplicate of Possibility to toggle visibility of sublayers in grouped layers.

‎02-26-2026

Hmm, that is odd. I think the next step is to please contact Esri Support so they can help you troubleshoot what is going on on these particular machines where you are seeing the issue.

‎02-26-2026

Update: This workaround does not work. Your organization must have anonymous access enabled, or access the retired app via the anonymous www.arcgis.com URL, to prevent the sign in prompt mentioned in this thread. If your organization does not have anonymous access enabled, you can edit the URL property of the retired item (on the Settings tab of its item details page) to replace your organization-specific link with the generic www.arcgis.com version. For example, change https://epa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapTour/index.html?appid=abcdefg123456 to https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapTour/index.html?appid=abcdefg123456

‎02-26-2026

@KG_427 -- It's possible a VPN might be affecting things. Are either/both of you using a VPN connection?

‎02-26-2026

@BeccaBoyd - I took a look at the story link you provided and found some PDF links for testing. The Google Drive PDF viewer (this is what you see when you open the PDF in a new browser tab) does not allow embedding, but you can modify the URL to allow embedding. Also the .gov URL does also not allow embedding (I tested this by trying to use that URL to embed the PDF in a separate test page and it did not work). Perhaps there is a Google Drive URL for those documents that can also be used? See the URLs below. I hope this info will help you find the URLs you'll need to embed the PDFs. Does not allow embedding: spokanecounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/65266/Spokane-County-HMP-Vol1?bidId= Does not allow embedding (standard Google Drive PDF viewer URL): https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://www.spokanecounty.org/DocumentCenter/View/34414/Hazard-Mitigation-Plan-Update-Volume-1 Does allow embedding (modified GD PDF viewer URL): ✅ https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https%3A//www.spokanecounty.org/DocumentCenter/View/34414/Hazard-Mitigation-Plan-Update-Volume-1&embedded=true

‎02-26-2026

@MeleKoneya @JamesPoeschel - I updated my reply above to include a way to get this to work.

‎02-26-2026

@MeleKoneya -- @JamesPoeschel is correct, there is a technical limitation preventing heading links from working as you expect from within web map pop-ups. However, This capability does work from within express map pop-ups. I'm not sure if that would be an option for you. Here is a blog about this and an example story where you can see it working: Escaping the Beltway Update: I thought of something we could try to make this work from web map pop-ups, and it does make the link work as you expect. You can use HTML to format the hyperlink in your feature layer data field to force the link to jump to the heading in the story without reloading the page or opening a new tab. You can just use the target="_self" attribute when formatting the anchor tag for the link, like this... This is pop-up text and it has a link to a heading in this story <a href="https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/abcdefg123456#ref-n-8sRcdy" target="_self">here</a> Also, depending on your needs, you also could look at using a collection with a cover map. In that case, you'd create individual stories for each "section," group them within a collection, and enable the map in the design panel in the collection builder. Here are some examples: Our favorite stories of 2023, The many faces of Superfund sites

‎02-26-2026

@J_Immetsberger - I'm sorry your students are running into an issue collaborating on their StoryMap. Just to clarify, the documentation indicates that multiple people should not work on the same ArcGIS StoryMaps item at the same time. From your message it sounds like perhaps your understanding is that they shouldn't work on the same element within a story at the same time? However, the story elements will not simply disappear when multiple people work on a story at the same time. Each author will see a warning if someone else is working on the same item. Please let us know if your students are not seeing these warnings.

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Latest Contributions by OwenGeo

Re: Old Format -- Can you have tab looking formats

Re: The layer legends are not updating correctly when switching maps within my story map, using the side car. I think this is a bug.

Re: Old Format -- Can you have tab looking formats

Re: Post update - Storymap Tour not showing photos

Re: The layer legends are not updating correctly when switching maps within my story map, using the side car. I think this is a bug.

Re: Layer groups in Map Editor

Re: Possibility to toggle visibility of sublayers in grouped layers

Re: Select mapcontent that is published in a group layer (sidecar) - Status changed to: Closed

Re: Post update - Storymap Tour not showing photos

Re: Getting org sign-in prompt during redirect from public Classic StoryMap to new ArcGIS StoryMap

Re: Post update - Storymap Tour not showing photos

Re: StoryMap Embed change and change panel size

Re: Use a Popup to go to Heading Link

Re: Use a Popup to go to Heading Link

Re: Group collaboration on one StoryMap doesn´t work

Re: StoryMaps adding ArcGIS App Issue

Re: StoryMap Embed not retaining URL parameters

Re: StoryMap Embed not retaining URL parameters

Re: StoryMap Embed not retaining URL parameters

Re: Unable to click links in Attribution notes