Latest Contributions by RupertEssinger

Hi Richard, I can also reproduce the same issue you found. I downloaded the Locations CSV data template from the Story Map Tour > Advanced Options dialog and uploaded it into a Google Docs spreadsheet which I shared publicly for viewing: MT Video test - Google Sheets  One of the places defined in that file uses a Youtube video instead of an image for its main media. The other places all use images. I then published it as a CSV from Google Docs and added that to a web map using Add > Add Layer From Web using the URL that Google Docs gives you. When I then share and publish that web map as a Story Map Tour, the Map Tour shows the pictures correctly but doesn't show the video. I'm not sure what causes that issue. The workaround is to upload the CSV as a file into the web map instead of adding it as a web layer, or, more directly, to upload the CSV file directly into the Story Map Tour builder.  The thing you saw where the Map Tour can't be edited after being created from a web map contain a web layer is the expected behaviour: in that workflow it expects the spreadsheet to be edited in Google Docs. But if you upload the CSV file into the web map, or directly into the Map Tour, it will let you make edits to the content. Do you need to use a spreadsheet to create your Map Tour? The easiest way to make a Map Tour is to author all the places directly into the Story Map Tour Builder. The spreadsheet workflow is useful if you have existing tables of info that you want to turn into a Map Tour, or if you want to assemble everything ahead of time in one file so it can be reviewed by other people, etc, but it isn't required for creating Map Tours. Hope that helps. Rupert ... View more

Hi, Story Map Tour doesn't allow that. Both Tour and Shortlist display the same map irrespective of which place you are looking at. The extent of the map can change, but not the content in the map. For what you are looking to do, try using Story Map Journal. Each section in a Map Journal can display whatever map you want: you could use a different web map in each section, or display the same web map but with a different extent or layers on/off in each section. You could then make one section for each place you want to show in your tour. Quite a few users are doing their tour-type story maps in Map Journal when they want that flexibility. It also lets you have multiple photos and unlimited text description per place.Unlike Map Tour, Map Journal doesn't let you drive the tour from an dataset or import all your places as photos from Flickr in one go: you have to manually author each section. Here are some examples: Story Map Journal Gallery | Story Maps  Hope that helps. Rupert ... View more

HI Alex The National Parks Timeline is a custom app we created from scratch: it doesn't use one of the Story Map application templates. We create these custom apps to try out different approaches and designs that might eventually be turned into templates or incorporated into templates, attract new audiences to our tech, and see what our developers can do! There is a configurable app built into ArcGIS Online for working with time-based data that may work for what you'd like to do. It doesn't look the same as the NPS Timeline but see this blog post for more about it: Using the Time Aware configurable app template | ArcGIS Blog  Another approach for showing change over time in a story map is to use the Story Map Series template and create a different tab or bullet for each time period you want to show. This is easy to set up and very flexible: each tab or bullet could show a different map or a different layer and/or extent on the same map, with narrative text and images too. Here are a couple of examples: https://geoscience-au.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=72ad590cc9364e41b06907406bb7712e  http://esrica-tsg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=bd7ddfd489b749cf9beb25b5786a8031  Rupert ... View more

Hi Naomi, that's not supported: places have to be point features in our place-based apps (Tour, Shortlist. Crowdsource) although we do see the need of being able to expand that to lines and polys and have wanted to do that ourselves for some stories, including the ability for the app to reflect the extent of that feature (whereas a point feature proxy for a line or poly doesn't have a specific extent). It is something are we looking at as we plan the future of those apps. In the meantime, how about using Story Map Journal for your story.  In a Story Map Journal, each section can show the specific map extent and layers that you author. So if you want to show people a set of different areas, a Map Journal lets you do that nicely, and each section can contain unlimited pictures and narrative text. You'd have to author the sections manually though, unlike in a Tour or Shortlist the story can be data-driven. Rupert ... View more

Hi Kathy Shortlist and Map Tour let you load pictures in bulk from Flickr and Google Plus. but for uploading images from your computer directly into the Builder, the workflow is one by one as you author your places. I agree it would be useful to be able to grab a set of photos from your computer and create places for them in one go. This isn't planned for Shortlist in the short term, but we are working in general on a new design and look/feel for authoring place based apps, starting with Map Tour.  We'll be revisiting how you upload images and your enhancement feedback is useful. Tip: if you use Flickr to host photos, both Shortlist and Map Tour can use them in bulk. They also use the title, caption text, geolocation, and album order for the pictures, so it can be a really good time saver. For example if you are sharing pictures using Flickr you likely have already added titles and captions to them. You can try this out with the Esri Story Maps demo Flickr page if you like. Just enter Esri Story Maps Demo when prompted in the Shortlist or Map Tour builder. This does require that your pictures are shared publicly, so it's not a good workflow if your story map isn't intended to be shared publicly because the content is restricted or sensitive. Rupert ... View more

Hi Cynthia 1.  Linking to a specific place in a Story Map Shortlist via a URL isn't supported currently. We have it on our list of enhancements. There is also an ArcGIS Idea submitted for this. Feel free to vote that one up if you haven't already: https://community.esri.com/ideas/13132  2. Changing the color of the header is supported in the Builder but you can't change the color of the background of the tab, which is what I think you are referring to. It can be changed by self-hosting and customizing the source code. That is also how you can add a graphic into the header. Rupert ... View more

Hi Kathy Those aren't bugs with Shortlist: that is how it is designed Your Shortlist looks great by the way. When you are looking at the info panel for a place (the panel with the photo, < > X arrows, and description under the photo: Clicking the photo is simply a shortcut for clicking > to move on to the next place in the sequence of places, the same as in Story Map Tour. We did this to make it faster to browse through the places in a Shortlist without having to hit the quite small > button each time When you click the < or > buttons, it will go back or advance through the sequence of places. So the < button isn't a back button like in a web browser. I think what you are reporting here is the following: If you have zoomed in on a particular area, and the Shortlist is one that uses the default behavior where only those places that fall inside the current area shown in the map are listed in the tabs, then the < and > buttons will cycle through the places in that area, not all the places in your Shortlist. In this way if you zoom in on one area, it is easy to browse the places in that area. If you'd prefer that clicking < or > lets your users browse through all the places, whether or not they are in the current extent shown on the map, you could go to the Settings in the Shortlist browser and switch the behaviour of your Shortlist so that the tabs always show all the places in your Shortlist, irrespective of the current map extent. Rupert ... View more