Latest Contributions by RupertEssinger

Hi, That does seem like a non-standard URL for an href. If a link doesn't work if you enter it into a web browser, I feel like it won't work in a Map Tour.  I think this is unrelated to what you are entering but it is perhaps worth saying in relation to the error message that Map Tour is giving you. If you are uploading your pictures directly into the Map Tpur Builder, some additional HTML restrictions kick in, in addition to our standard ones, because the names and captions of your places are being stored in an ArcGIS feature service behind the scenes. For example we allow the hr tag for map tours unless you are using image upload because feature services don't allow that tag. That is one reason you may be able to use certain HTML in other ArcGIS apps but not in feature service based Map Tours. See if this FAQ helps too: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/faq/#question32  Rupert ... View more

Hi Brian Only the text under the icon is actually clickable for me, not the image. Rupert ... View more

Hi Paul There's not an automatic way to convert a Story Map to Powerpoint. You can print Story Map Journals and Story Map Cascades to PDF Files, but to create a Powerpoint you'd have to do quite a bit of manual work. There is definitely a trend among Story Map authors to go the other way: to use story maps instead of Powerpoint to give presentations. My colleagues on the Story Maps team are doing that increasingly, especially using Story Map Series (for example, see "An Introduction To Story Maps" and "Storytelling for a Cause") and Story Map Cascade (for example, see "13 Ways to Make Your Story Map Sing", and  "Why Tell Stories?)". It makes it easy to include live maps, scenes or apps in your presentation, and also gives you an interactive resource you can share with your audience.  Here's a blog post about how to add Powerpoint slides to a Story Map. Here's a blog post about using a Story Map Series instead of Powerpoint, and that same article can also be found here in the most recent ArcWatch. Hope that helps Rupert ... View more

Hi Crystal, we aren't currently planning to move Story Map Shortlist to ArcGIS Enterprise. Typically if you have publicly shared maps and apps that you have created in ArcGIS Online, which are being used by people outside your organization, you'd leave those in ArcGIS Online even if you move to ArcGIS Enterprise. Maps and apps in ArcGIS Online can access data served out to the public web by ArcGIS Enterprise.  Hope that helps. Rupert ... View more

Hi, those links work OK for me in Internet Explorer on Windows 10. Rupert ... View more

Hi Jen, videos are not currently supported directly.  Thanks for adding an ArcGIS Idea for this https://community.esri.com/ideas/15099 so that people can vote on that. Rupert ... View more

Hi, Sorry about this issue where you get duplicate buttons if you build a Map Tour from a feature service that you publish yourself, like the one you created from a CSV file as you describe above. (This isn't an issue for authors who choose the option to upload images directly into the Map Tour builder when they first create a new tour). We will address this issue in the upcoming update of ArcGIS Online at the end of June this year, so that you will no longer see those extra buttons. In the case of your feature service, you won't be able to upload images into it. To be able to upload images from your computer directly into the Map Tour builder, you need to choose that option from the Map Tour Welcome dialog when you first create the Map Tour. That automatically creates a feature service for you and manages the images that you upload for you behind the scenes in that feature service as image attachments. If you create a Map Tour using a CSV file or a layer that uses the same schema as the CSV file you can download from the Welcome dialog > Advanced Options, then the Map Tour expects your images to be referenced via URLs stored in the PIC_URL and THUMB_URL fields. In the Builder you can modify the images by editing/entering the URLs for the images, but it won't let you upload images directly into the Builder. In other words there are two types of Map Tours: ones based on uploading images, and ones based on referencing image via URL. In the second type you can point at images in picture sharing sites like Flickr, Google+ or any image that is accessible on the web.  (Note; there is an advanced workflow where you can create a Map Tour from a feature service with attachments that you configure according to the attachment configuration expected by the Map Tour (info) but we don't recommend this method. If you want to upload images into a Map Tour via the builder it is very much easier to just choose that option in the builder when you first create the tour).  Hope that helps. Rupert ... View more

In particular, this example by the folks at University of New Brunswick Libraries is a Cascade in which they link out to multiple Map Journals. https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=9a763a9190f7498591b75bf2a8344cb9  And this Cascade contains a custom web control hosted on a separate server to present a clickable map graphic that lets readers launch the other chapters/parts of the story: River of Resilience: Introduction . There's a separate Geonet thread about how that was implemented. Rupert ... View more

Yeah, check out these examples in the Story Maps Gallery of some of the different ways folks are presenting multiple story maps. Some of these are HTML pages, some use ArcGIS Online Gallery apps and some use Story Maps. Gallery | Story Maps  ... View more