Latest Contributions by RupertEssinger

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 ... View more

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 ... View more

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 ... View more

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 ... View more