Latest Contributions by RupertEssinger

‎01-26-2018

Thanks Suzanne, I also replied on this other post: https://community.esri.com/message/745514-re-i-need-your-help-why-cant-i-share-a-web-mapping-application-where-all-the-s…

‎01-26-2018

Hi Daniel, I saw on another Geonet thread that you are posting this into Facebook and are getting an unexpected message back from Facebook when you do that. I can also reproduce that. Sorry about the issue I'm not sure why that message is being returned in the default Facebook 'social card', and I've made a note of it with our team to see if anyone can explain it, or perhaps a Geonetter can explain it. I've not been able to reproduce that message with other story maps and I tried a bunch. I think the story map is working fine and is shared publicly irrespective of what that message in the Facebook social card says. You can actually just close that errant social card by clicking the x control on it and go head and do your Facebook post, adding any additional text or graphics that you want to include in the post. I just tried that in FB and it worked OK for me. Rupert

‎01-26-2018

We'd recommend using the Story Map Shortlist app template to give people that experience. Shortlist is similar to Map Tour but you organize your places into different tabs, so people can view the different points just by switching tabs. Adding a filter into Map Tour UI would require you self-hosting and customizing the app, and it's not a customization I've seen so I don't have an example of it to share. Rupert

‎01-26-2018

Do you mean you'd like to add a control into the user interface so that people can choose which points get displayed, or do you want your Map Tour to automatically reflect changes made to a dataset, so that edits and additions to that dataset are reflected in the Map Tour? Rupert

‎01-24-2018

Hi Kerrie It is possible to create a Map Tour from a feature service that you author rather than uploading your images into the Map Tour Builder. Normally to create a Map Tour and host your images in ArcGIS, you would simply upload your images into the Map Tour Builder and it will automatically create a feature service behind the scenes for you in which it stores your images, without you having to set anything up. However there may be advanced workflows where you want to author or use an existing feature service and use it in a Map Tour. Your feature service should use the same schema as the CSV template that the Map Tour Builder lets you download. If you use a feature service you have authored in a Map Tour take care that when you add it to a web map as a layer that your layer does not have a scale visibility setting specified in the web map: it needs to be visible at all zoom levels otherwise Map Tour won't read it correctly. The Map Tour can also read images that are attached to a feature service (i.e. feature attachments), in which case your feature service doesn't need to have the PIC_URL or THUMB_URL fields referencing images via URLs that the schema normally requires. The Map Tour expects each feature to have two images attached: the first one is used as the main image and the second one is used as the thumbnail. However we don't recommend this workflow and may deprecate it in future releases of the Map Tour. There's no optimization of the images (like there is if you upload them into the Builder) so you may get a very slow performing Map Tour because the images are really big. It isn't easy to assemble those images in the correct order and the performance is not as good as referencing images via URLs via those two fields. Rupert

‎01-24-2018

I should also mention that we have some examples of how people are presenting sets of Story Maps in our Gallery. This URL pulls up the Gallery filtered to show those examples: Gallery | Story Maps These examples are mostly web pages to which they've added links to story maps. Some are story maps with links to more story maps and some are ArcGIS Online gallery apps. Rupert

‎01-23-2018

Could you clarify what you are looking to do. You can delete places from a Map Tour, either in the Builder, or in the underlying data (if your Map Tour is being driven from a layer in a web map). Rupert

‎01-23-2018

Could you clarify what you are looking to do. You can delete places from a Map Tour, either in the Builder, or in the underlying data (if your Map Tour is being driven from a layer in a web map). Rupert

‎01-22-2018

See also: https://community.esri.com/community/gis/web-gis/storymaps/blog/2017/07/03/story-maps-developers-corner-adding-image-hyperlinks-to-a-cascade

‎01-22-2018

Hi. The Story Map collection is a custom app we created in order to showcase theme-based mini-galleries of stories. You can find the collections we have released so far here. These look like Cascades especially because they have a cover page, but they aren't created using Cascade. We'd like to eventually enable anyone to create a collection but this is just in the R+D phase currently, so the collections we have released are rather like prototypes. You can make galleries of items in ArcGIS and share them. This can give you a somewhat similar look and feel to what you have posted above. These can also be embedded. It all starts with a group in ArcGIS Online. Groups contain items, like web maps and web apps. You can create groups (requires ArcGIS Online subscription) or work with groups that other people have created, like this one I curate. You can share a group as a link or embed it in a website. You can also create a gallery from a group by sharing it using one of the Gallery apps (requires ArcGIS Online subscription). Click the Share button on a group to try it out. Rupert

‎01-21-2018

Thanks Andrew. I can reproduce that too. I've not seen that particular behavior with a web page embedded in a Story Map before, but I think something about that site you are trying to embed in the Story Map doesn't lend itself to being embedded. It seems to return itself in a new browser tab when embedded. If I look at the HTML code for that page there's a full screen frame that I think causes that. I think you will find the same behavior if you try and embed that site in a standard frame in a web page. The Story Map is not getting corrupted in any way. Story Maps don't do anything special with web content you embed: they just try and display it in the available space the same way that content would be displayed if embedded in a standard web page. Some websites restrict embedding but I don't think this is a case of that. Either way, if an embedded web page or web content doesn't work, you could just include a link to it in the narrative text in your story map that opens it in a separate web browser tab. Perhaps that organization makes their data available in a form you could add to an ArcGIS Online web map? Rupert

‎01-21-2018

Could you share a link to your story map (if it is public). I'm not really clear on what the issue is you are seeing. Rupert

‎01-19-2018

Hi David This isn't supported when you configure a Shortlist. Shortlist was designed for the tabs to switch between different themes for the same area, like a city, and to let the user zoom in to a particular part of that area to explore what's in that area, using the tabs to switch between the themes. It's on our list to look into providing because it does get requested here on Geonet quite a lot. For example with what you are requesting you could have a guide to a city where the Hiking tab shows a different extent than the Restaurants tab because the hiking trails are found over a much wider area. In the short term we at least would like to make it easier to be able to customize the Shortlist to provide this behavior via code, but ideally down the road we would let you do this as a configuration in the Builder. A related enhancement is the ability to show different supporting layers for different tabs, so your Hiking tab could display line features for the trails which would be hidden on the other tabs. We don't have releases planned yet for these enhancements. Just as a tip you could use Story Map Series now to present a set of tabs where each tab shows a different extent and set of layers, but it wouldn't have the Shortlist tile-based user interface for the places of interest. Hope that helps. Rupert

‎01-16-2018

Story Map Shortlist supports the ability to add point, line or polygon features into the map that your readers can click on get info via their standard popups. We call these 'supporting layers'. To add supporting layers to a Shortlist, you manually edit the web map used in the Shortlist. You can't add supporting layers via the Story Map Shortlist Builder. The symbology and popup configuration you choose for the layers you add into your web map are automatically used in your Shortlist. It's not possible to hook up supporting layers so that they display information in the Shortlist tab area (the area where info about the Shortlist points readers click on is displayed). So this does provide a way to give people additional info about features on the map that aren't displayed in the Shortlist tabs, as long as you are OK with this info appearing in popups. See this FAQ for more info: Frequently Asked Questions | Story Maps Conversely, we often see Shortlists containing additional supporting layers where the popups aren't configured and so don't look good. If you want to include supporting layers but don't want your readers to be able to click on the feature(s) they contain, like a county or study area outline, be sure to turn off popups for those layer(s) so that people who click on them don't see an unconfigured popup. Rupert

‎01-16-2018

To add a shapefile into a web map, you first create a zip file from all of its separate files (because a shapefile consists of several component files on disk). You can then upload that into a web map as a layer. See the 'Add layers from files' section in this help topic: Add layers—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS Rupert

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Re: Adding a webpage as a New Tab corrupts the Story Map

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