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Hi Maxene, The Story Maps in the Story Maps Gallery listed under 'Story Map App > Custom Designs' are created by our Story Maps dev team as custom developments (not customizations of our out-of-the-box app templates) to experiment with new storytelling patterns or for special one-off assignments. Some of these do get turned into app templates. For example Thirteen Spooky Halloween Haunts was the prototype for the new Side Panel layout we added to Story Map Tour in our April 2018 release (the new Side Panel layout may not have the exact same features as the Halloween Haunts). In those cases where we have shared the source code for a custom design via Github, this is really aimed at the developer community in case they are interested in how particular features were implemented or have a similar project. We don't provide documentation or support for that code because it is shared 'as-is' and it's not necessarily easy to adapt or re-use the code, and we generally wouldn't recommend that pattern. In the case of the particular custom design mentioned in this thread, you could get a similar look and feel using the Story Map Tour app and embedding audio. See these examples and here's a blog post about how to do that by including the HTML <audio> tag in the Map Tour caption text. Rupert
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Hi Della Sounds like a cool project. If you feel comfortable posting the URL to the Story Map publicly, and assuming it is shared publicly, you could post it in this thread to garner some feedback, There is also a Story Maps For Education space on Geonet too: Story Maps for Education Rupert
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Hi Rachel. Sorry about the issue. Shortlist doesn't have an option to zoom to the location of a specific place, although this is requested enough that we should consider it for a future release. It would be handy to be able to zoom in temporarily on a specific place and then have it automatically zoom back to where you were. Bookmarks aren't really designed to provide this functionality, which is why we don't elegantly support more than a couple of handfuls of them: bookmarks are really just for letting your readers jump to specific areas, like neighborhoods, to see what's there. Also, if your Shortlist uses the default behavior where zooming to an extent filters the tabs to just show the places in that area, then having bookmarks that zoom very close in on particular places may not be good because that will clear out the tabs of all but the place(s) in that specific area. If you want people to view your places at a specific close-in zoom scale rather than at a more zoomed out, overview scale, I'd recommend firstly unchecking the option in the Settings > General options tab that makes the tabs restrict the places to those in the current extent. In this way, the tabs will show all the places, irrespective of the Shortlist extent. Then secondly, make the initial/home extent of your Shortlist be zoomed in to your desired zoom level somewhere important in your map. In this way, irrespective of which place your readers choose in your tabs, the map will show them that location zoomed in to the scale you chose. Here's an example of this approach. Rupert
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Hi Molly Here are new versions of the missing Story Map that I mentioned in an earlier comment above: Demographics & Statistics Atlas Story Map Series story using Tabbed layout with tabs featuring an embedded Story Map Series using Bulleted layout: http://nation.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=33caf0001a484afea3b555acb0a199cd Story Map Series story using Tabbed layout with tabs featuring an embedded Story Map Series using Side Accordion layout: http://nation.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=829a63a3553048fa8025993a238fad78 Rupert
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The first step is really to decide which of the Story Map app templates you will be using because that will determine how you assemble the data. Looking in the Story Maps Gallery is a good way to decide which template will work best for your project. Some of them results look quite similar but use different app templates. Use the filter and search in the Gallery to see if there are any examples that match your subject. Story Map Series can display multiple tabs (or bullets or 'side accordions') each of which can display the same map or different maps. For example you could display the same map in each tab but with different layers turned on or different extents displayed. The maps will automatically update to show the latest content you've added to them. Your users can click on the features on your maps to get popups about those features and those popups can contain small photos. Story Map Shortlist is more structured. It displays places organized into special tabs, organized, into themes that display photos and captions for places. This is a nicer experience than having your readers access info and pics via popups. You can easily author those places in the Story Map Shortlist Builder. It is also possible to drive a Shortlist from the places defined in a specific layer in an existing web map, so that updating the data will be reflected in the Shortlist without you having to do any manual edits, but for this workflow your data has to be formatted using the schema that Shortlist expects (see this FAQ for more info on that). It sounds like that workflow would work for what you want to do. Practically though, the content that you show in a Story Map Shortlist or Story Map Tour tends to be different enough in format from what's in your underlying GIS data, that it may be simpler just to manually update your Shortlist or Tour to reflect changes to your dataset, instead of trying to automate it, especially if you've run into problems trying to automate it. It is also more fun to just edit your data in the builder for the Story Map template you are using. One thing, in your post above you said: " - the underlying map will change frequently in ArcGIS pro which results in a new arcgis.com web map " If you are just updating the content in a map in ArcGIS pro and you want that to be reflected online, you wouldn't be creating a new ArcGIS web map each time. You really want to use the same ArcGIS web map and just update the data that appears on that map, so that apps like Story Maps that display that data automatically show the changes. You don't want updates to your data to have to result in new web maps being created because they you'd have to update apps like Story Map Series to point at the new map(s), and apps like Tour and Shortlist expect to work just with the same one map, as described above. Hope that helps. Rupert
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Hi Suzanne Sorry about the issue. There's not a way to restore an older version of a Story Map app or the web map(s) that it is using. In this sort of situation where it is a bit hard to see what is happening via the forum, and where it is something that may be critical to your work, we'd always recommend contacting Esri Support to have an analyst there walk through an issue with you. We and the other folks in the storytelling community try and respond to posts here, but Support is always recommended if you need immediate help. Somewhat related to this: You can use Save as to make a copy of a web map, but there's no Save As for web apps in ArcGIS Online, although that it is frequently requested feature and is definitely on the radar here. It is possible to duplicate a story map: see this FAQ. Rupert
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Here's another thing to look out for if you have issues creating Story Map Tours from data in a web map. If you are using the advanced workflow where you first assemble your Map Tour's places manually as a data layer in a web map in order to create your tour (see FAQ about that), and then publish that web map using the Map Tour app, the app sometimes doesn't like it if the layer that contains your tour places has a scale range set, so if you are doing that, make sure the layer is visible at all scales. See my reply on this thread: https://community.esri.com/thread/214159-how-do-you-change-the-map-in-the-shortlist-story-map-i-can-do-it-in-map-series-but-not-in-shortlist-there-doesnt-seem-to-be-a-function-to-do-it that may help with the question about changing the map in a Shortlist, and please reply on that thread if it wasn't what you were looking for. Rupert
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Hi Maggie Story Map app templates like Story Map Cascade, Story Map Journal and Story Map Series let you display any map or maps so when you author them, you can change maps inside those builders. You can also edit those maps from right inside the builders. Story Map Tour, Story Map Shortlist and Story Map Crowdsource are a bit different because they contain places, and they store these places inside a web map. This means that the Story Map app and the map it uses are tied together. For example if you delete or unshare the web map used in one of these place-based apps, the app won't load. For this reason you can't change which web map a particular Tour, Shortlist or Crowdsource app points at from within those builders. Inside those builders you can change the basemap used by the story but you can't make other edits to the map, such as adding additional supporting layers. If you want to edit the web map used by a place based story like Tour, Shortlist or Crowdsource, such as to add additional layers (like a study area boundary), first close the builder if you are currently editing the story (you don't want to edit the underlying map while you are also editing the app), then go find and open the map and open it to make edits. You can find the web map in the ArcGIS Content > My Content, but the easiest way to find the map used by a Story Map app is to look for your story in My Stories. My Stories will list out the content of any Story Map including the web map(s) it uses. If you edit the web map used in a Tour, Shortlist or Crowdsource, be very careful not to delete or remove the point layer in that map that stores the places in your story. Remember that those places live in the web map, not in the app itself. You can create a new Map Tour or Shortlist from a web map that has been used in another Tour or Shortlist. This enables you to re-use or rescue data. For example suppose you create a Shortlist and then accidentally deleted the Shortlist app item in ArcGIS Online (but read this blog post to see how to delete protect your work so this doesn't happen!), You could create a new Shortlist from that map. To do this for either Map Tour or Shortlist. first open that map, and use Save As to save a copy. This will ensure you are the owner of this map and that you aren't using something that another story is pointing at, Then create the Story Map from that map in the usual way (i.e. from the Create Web App menu in the map's item details page or via the Share dialog in the map. In the case of Shortlist, it will prompt you to see how you want to use the point data that is in that map. Choose the option to import the data, and when prompted choose the layer that contains your points, and then just accept all the defaults. This will make a new Shortlist from that existing data. You'll have to enter the names for your tabs in the Builder and make the other Shortlist settings. Another way to re-use or rescue Map Tour or Shortlist data from a web map is to export the layer containing the places from that map as a CSV file, and then use that CSV file as an input to recreate that app. Hope that helps. Rupert
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Hi Dave, Sorry about the issue. The Shortlist Set Location/Change Location does have issues if the Organization geocode locator services are HTTP instead of HTTPS, or if they point at data sources that can't be found (for example, there may be an old locator pointing at a data source that is no longer available. Rupert
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Hi Dave, were you able to find a way to solve this issue? Rupert
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Hi Jimmy I see from your web map's URL that you are using ArcGIS Online. (If you were using ArcGIS Enterprise, then that would answer the question immediately, because Story Map Shortlist isn't included in ArcGIS Enterprise). What I think is happening is that in your ArcGIS Online Organization's administrative settings, it is pointing at custom group of apps instead of the default group of apps to populate the App Gallery for people such as yourself using that Organization to create apps, and that custom group doesn't include Story Map Shortlist. You could see if your ArcGIS Online administrator could add Story Map Shortlist into that custom group. They could also add Story Map Cascade into there as well, which is another cool Story Map app I'm not seeing in your Gallery. Alternatively they could give you access to all the standard apps by reverting to pointing at the default group of apps, but there may be reasons only a subset of apps are being presents to authors. There's some info about this here in the ArcGIS Online help: Configure map—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS Rupert
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Hi Elizabeth. Nice story maps! I hiked at Poo Poo Point / Tiger Mountain three weeks ago in pouring rain all day. You are correct: if you are driving your new Shortlist directly from the data in a web map using the 'as-is' workflow where you define and manage your Shortlist by updating that data in the map instead of in the Shortlist builder, the new Shortlist doesn't read in the ADDRESS and HOURS fields. Those two fields from the original Shortlist aren't included in the schema that the new Shortlist expects to find when it displays your web map data 'as is'. (See this FAQ or the Help dialog in the Shortlist Builder for more info). If you are using the workflow where you do a one-time import of data from a web map into the Shortlist, so that you can then edit and manage the data in the Shortlist Builder, it lets you pull in any fields (and it will actually default to including the ADDRESS and HOURS fields in the default set of fields it suggests you include). In the case of the as-is workflow, you'd therefore have to include that missing data in one of the fields that the schema is reading from (i.e. DESC1 - DESC5). If your Shortlist is already using all those fields for some or all of your places, one way to include the extra info is to add it on to the end of the data in the last field (e.g. DESC5) so that it is included in that field. You could concatenate your data using a field calculation or, if you are using Excel to generate CSV files, a formula. To add paragraph spacing between the text in that field value, you could include a couple of <br> HTML tags. You could also add <b> or <i> tags to add formatting. So in your data layer's table, if you can make your DESC5 value for a specific place be, for example: Directions: Vehicle access for hang glider / paraglider pilots by permit only; road gated at Tiger Summit.<br><br>Contact: South Puget Sound Region, 360-825-1631<br><br><i>Dogs allowed on leash. Dispose of pet waste appropriately.</i> the Shortlist will display that as: Hope that helps. Rupert
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You could search for the map by name in ArcGIS Online. Or if you or a colleague are the owner of the story map you could look in My Stories to easily find/launch the web map(s) that the story map references. When you browse your stories in My Stories, it will list out the content in each story, and also let you know if there are issues with it. Alternatively, to find the ID of the web map(s) or embedded app(s) in any story map you could open your web browser's console (for example, press F12 in Chrome on Windows), browse the story map, and then look for the IDs in the Console. Rupert
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Hi Molly, Yeah, that story I referenced has been unshared. I just wanted to check that you know that the Side Accordion layout is one of the layout options in the Story Map Series app template. Click here for a visual guide to the Map Series layouts. Here's a Story Map Series using the Tabbed layout in which a Story Map Series using the Side Accordion layout has been embedded into one of the tabs ("Transit Tools"). The other tabs embed a Story Map Cascade, and Story Map Journals!: http://urbanobservatory.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=1c32233ab04241a08f6bbc80f668d022 In general, we tend to suggest keeping story maps simple and not embedding story maps inside story maps, but it is a technique that is used a lot especially for more in-depth stories where authors like the extra storytelling bandwidth they can get. For example, this story by George Washington's Mount Vernon is a Story Map Journal with two Side Accordion Map Series and a Swipe story embedded in it: http://mountvernon.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=3ca8ba42c90a41d39df64b9cd4f25f58 Embedding a big variety of different apps inside a story map, or multiple levels of embedding may be a bit disorienting for casual readers and may be a bit harder to use on mobile devices (because readers will see the mobile UI of the embedded app inside the mobile UI of the host app), but that depends on what is being embedded. We don't see a lot of Story Map Series stories embedded inside Story Map Series stories. The most common pattern is to embed Story Map Swipe/Spyglass stories into Map Series or Map Journal, in order to provide a swipeable map as part of a larger story. Another pattern that we see a lot is Story Map Journals embedded into Story Map Series, which works especially nicely if each of your embedded Map Journals has the same look and feel. For example see: https://arcgis-content.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=fbf644cbbba441c7bd9b1a00d03c8728 https://icfgeospatial.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=58f90c5a5b5f4f94aaff93211c45e4ec Some authors are getting nice results embedding Story Map Cascade stories inside tabbed Story Map Series, often as a way to present a set of Cascades in one interactive flow. For example see: https://icfgeospatial.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html http://eastduncouncil.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=51657d2fb4694f74bfec5a42e32a9204 Hope that helps Rupert
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