Latest Contributions by RupertEssinger

Hi Brittany Sorry about the issue. This is the expected behavior however because for security reasons in mid 2018 we introduced HTML sanitization into the Story Map apps to bring them into line with the ArcGIS Online support HTML (we do whitelist a small number of other tags in addition to what is in that list to support specific functionality in certain apps, like the hr, source and iframe in Shortlist). These rules kick in for stories created after our mid 2018 release but for backwards compatibility, don't apply to stories created before then.  Instead of using h1 could you try using other tags to get a similar formatting look?  Rupert ... View more

Hi Benjamin, the &embed parameter isn't supported for Story Map Journals. Via the Settings dialog in the Map Journal Builder you can turn off the content that appears in the header to make it less conspicuous, such as the 'A Story Map' text, the logo, and the sharing buttons. But you can't turn off the header in a Journal using the &embed like you can in Story Map Tour, Story Map Series, Story Map Shortlist, Story Map Swipe/Spyglass and Story Map Basic. This is because once you proceed beyond the home section of a Journal, the header is automatically used to display the title of the Journal. We do have an enhancement logged to allow the &embed parameter to hide the header in the home section. If that would be useful, or if you would rather &embed let you hide the header in all the sections of a Journal, let us know. Feel free too if you'd like to submit an ArcGIS Idea detailing how you'd prefer it worked. Rupert ... View more

Hi Issac Very sorry about the issue. This is something we have not been able to address easily in the code for Story Map Tour, which is now the oldest one of the Story Map app codebases. This can happen in the Story Map Tour Builder if you move between the places in your tour quite rapidly, especially if you have a large tour and you click on the > button rapidly to get to the point you want to edit. It is fairly easy to tell when it has happened because the Save indicator illuminates to show you that a saveable change has been made, even though you were just moving between your points. If you notice that Save becomes illuminated when you were only browsing through your places in the Builder. we recommend you close that browser tab without saving. The workaround is to not click too rapidly on the < or > buttons in the Builder. Sorry we don't have a better solution to this currently. Rupert ... View more

Hi Shawn, thanks for sharing your Shortlist. The initial load speed isn't bad but like you say once you start using it, it can get bogged down. We think this is mainly because of the large number of places in your tabs, especially the middle one. The issue we are seeing is not because of the overall number of places: it occurs when a tab has a large number of places.  Shortlist doesn't scale well to that many places in a single tab. Approximately 100 or so places per tab would be a good maximum to aim for. Sorry that the app performance isn't supporting what you'd like to show. Would it be possible to spread your places over more tabs, or perhaps make a separate Shortlist, each containing multiple tabs, for each of your themes. For large datasets, another approach would be to use a Story Map app like Map Series with one tab for each of your themes, each of which shows a web map that contains the places for that theme. Readers would interact with the places by clicking on them and opening popups. This wouldn't give you the Shortlist look and feel but it is very scalable because would just be using the standard web map point/popup functionality.  Rupert ... View more

Hi Catherine, It is possible to configure Story Map Series and Story Map Journal so that the popups in web maps have a 'Zoom To' icon that readers can click to zoom in on the feature, the same as the Zoom To link you see when you view a web map directly. You can do this by adding a CSS style tag into your story: <style>   .esriPopup .actionsPane {    display: block !important; } </style> To do this in Map Journal, in the builder, go to the home section, and click the Edit button to start editing that section. In the side panel text editor's toolbar, click the Source icon (second button from the right in the top row of the toolbar). Paste the code above in at the top. Save and then view the story. To do this in Map Series, in the builder, go to the first tab. In the description panel editor's toolbar click the Source icon (second button from the right in the top row of the toolbar). Save and then view the story. This will apply to all the web maps in your Map Journal or Map Series, so you don't need to add that code to every section. The section you add the code to doesn't have to contain a web map.   After using the zoom to button in a popup, your readers would have to just click the Home button in the web map to go back to full extent. So it is the same behavior as a viewing a web map outside of a Story Map.  Hope that helps. Rupert ... View more