Latest Contributions by RupertEssinger

Hi Jazmin, Your post made us realize that we haven't got any help info about how to set up a Story Map Journal so clicking on places on the map can take your users to specific sections. Story Maps team memberCooper Thomas‌ has remedied that with the following blog post. This isn't an out-of-the-box option on Story Map Journal: it's a customization that requires downloading our source code and hosting it yourself so you can tweak the code a bit. So the blog post is on our Story Maps Developers' Corner blog: > Navigate Map Journal Sections Using the Main Stage Map Hope that helps Rupert ... View more

The replies above are correct. In order to have a different image for the thumbnail and the main image for a place, you need to be able to reference the images via URLs, so they need to be hosted on a web server or website, such as your agency or organization's web server, or any web server or web hosting service you have access to. For example at Esri I have access to a web server we use for hosting various resources for blogs, etc so I put the images i want to use in a folder on there, such as these two images for Cafe 222 in San Diego (a popular breakfast place at the Esri User Conference), one of which is the logo which I use for the thumbnail: https://downloads.esri.com/blogs/places/sandiego/cafe_222_large.jpg  https://downloads.esri.com/blogs/places/sandiego/cafe_222_logo.jpg When the images used in any Story Map app, not just Story Map Shortlist, are referenced directly via URLs you have to be aware of the recommended sizes, because that way of adding images to stories doesn't automatically optimize them for best draw performance like they are if you upload the images directly into a story or use images in Flickr or Google Plus. You can find our image size recommendations in the Story Maps FAQ, When you create a Shortlist using images on the web, we recommend using different sized images for the thumbnail and the main image to maximize draw performance, but you don't have to. Here's the FAQ about Shortlist recommended image sizes. We don't generally recommend pointing at third party images on the web that you don't control: these may be large file sizes that are slow to draw, they may go offline or get renamed, and there may be copyright issues unless you are sure about permissions or licensing. To create a Shortlist using images referenced via URL links, you can just launch the Builder and start adding your places manually. Alternatively you have the option to assemble your places in a point layer in a web map, such as by creating a spreadsheet, saving it as a CSV file and then and adding it into o a web map to make a point layer. The URLs of the thumbnail and main image you want to use are stored in the layer as two attributes (even if you want to use the same file for both images. You then create your Shortlist from that web map by first opening the web map and then using the Create App option when you share that map.This is a handy way to make a Shortlist if you are referencing images via URL because you can assemble all the data in a table instead of adding places one by one in the Builder. Excel and Google docs fans can use autocomplete and formulas to speed up data creation. Here's the FAQ about using existing point data as places in a Shortlist. Tip for Flickr users: If you create some or all of the places in your Shortlist using images in Flickr, via the Import button in the Shortlist Builder, you don't have the option to use different images for the thumbnail and the main images. The Flickr pic that you use for each place is used for both images. However after you have imported Flickr pics to create places you can specify a different image for the thumbnail image or the main image for a place: you can click the image in the Builder and in the Choose Image > Links tab you can paste in the URL to a different image for either the thumbnail or the main image. So if you have put some logo images onto a web server that you want to use as thumbnails you can paste the URL of one of those images into the thumbnail field in the Links tab. The main image will continue to be the Flickr pic you originally chose. Note for people who are uploading their images into their Shortlist: You are using the easiest way to add images into a Shortlist: you are dragging and dropping them (or browsing to them) directly into the Builder from your computer. This optimizes the images and stories them in your story. When you upload images into your Shortlist like this, you don't have the option to use different images for the thumbnail and the main images. The image that you upload for each place is used for both the thumbnail and the main image. In the Builder, when you click on an image you have uploaded, you can get to the Choose Image > Links tab. However do not try and paste in the URL to a different image in this tab in order to try and use a different image for the thumbnail. There's a bug currently in our beta (that I found while researching this Geonet post!!) that can result in your losing your main image and not being able to replace it if you do that. So you can't do the workflow I just described above for Flickr users. If you are uploading images into your Shortlist, I would actually just avoid going to the Choose Image > Links tab.  Hope that helps Rupert ... View more

Hi, Shortlist doesn't support changing the size of the pin markers in the Builder. The symbol can be changed if you customize the app by downloading/self-hosting the code. Rupert ... View more

Hi, the Zoom menu will appear in your Shortlist if the web map that your Shortlist displays contains bookmarks. If the web map contains bookmarks, and you check the Bookmarks box in the Settings > Map Options dialog, then you'll see a Zoom menu in your Shortlist. You can also choose the name for that menu in the Settings > Map Options dialog. Bookmarks are displayed with the same name and order that they are in in your web map. To add bookmarks to your existing Shortlist app, first save and close the Shortlist Builder (if it is open). Then open the web map used in the Shortlist in the ArcGIS Online Map Viewer (do not do this while the Shortlist it is used in is open in the Builder). You can find the web map in your ArcGIS Online My Content, or, an easier way to open it, it is to go to My Stories | Story Maps , find your Shortlist, expand its entry to see its contents, and then click the Edit Map button next to the map. Add bookmarks into the web map. This is also how you can also add additional supporting layers into your Shortlist. Save the web map and close it. Now open your Shortlist  in the Builder and turn on the bookmarks option in Settings > Map Options in the Builder. If you are creating a new Shortlist and creating your Shortlist using an existing web map, you can either add the desired bookmarks to the web map before you create your Shortlist, or add the bookmarks afterwards as described above. Rupert ... View more

Here's an example of a references link added into a Story Map Tour's subtitle:   St. John's, Newfoundland Heritage Sites   https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapTour/index.html?appid=4c63795ae5d64d52a520752381be07e3  I think it works better though not to have a link to a separate list of references and instead just include reference info in the captions of the pictures. perhaps using HTML tags to format the reference text like the photographer references in this tour:   Some Places to Go in San Diego, California   https://story.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapTour/index.html?appid=d1ef0471365e400ebb540472b477871e  Rupert ... View more

Hi Colleen Sorry about the issue. What you found is a bug in the latest version of Story Map Tour. If the web map used in your Map Tour (or a web map that you are going to publish in a new map tour) references its basemap layer(s) via HTTP instead of HTTPS, the locator maps that let you interactively specify locations in the Add, Import and Settings dialogs in the Map Tour Builder don't draw, and in addition because of that the Settings dialog won't open at all.  The workaround to this is to update the web map used in your Map Tour (or the one you are intending to use in a new Map Tour) so that the basemap layer(s) are referenced from the web map via HTTPS instead of HTTP. You can't do that inside the Story Map Builder. The easiest way to do that is as follows: Close the Story Map Tour Builder if it is open. Open the web map that your Story Map Tour uses (or open the web map that you intend to use in a new tour). An easy way to open the web map used in your existing Story Map Tour is to go to the My Stories section of the Story Maps website, find your story, expand it to see its content listing, click Maps and then click Edit Map next to the map. You can also access the web map used by your Story Map Tour via ArcGIS My Contents.  Once your web map is open in the ArcGIS Online Map Viewer, make sure that the URL in your web browser address bar starts with HTTPS not HTTP. For example you may need to copy the URL out of your web browser address bar, paste it into a new tab, and edit it to start with HTTPS. Save the web map. That should update your basemap to use HTTPS. If you now open your Story Map Tour (or create a new Story Map Tour from that web map, you should hopefully not experience the issue above anymore. Another way to update your web map so that it references its basemap layer(s) via HTTP is to follow steps 1, 2 and 3 above and then change the basemap that it uses by adding the basemap again. For example in your case, where your web map uses this tile layer as its basemap, you'd choose Add > Search for Layers, find that layer, and  in the search results instead of clicking Add, you'd click the title of the layer and then choose Use As Basemap in the panel that appears. If that doesn't work for any reason, or if you are an advanced user who wants to see some behind the scenes stuff that you don't normally need to see, you can also use the ArcGIS Online Assistant to manually edit the JSON (i.e. the underlying info behind any item in ArcGIS Online that details what that item contains) of the web map to use HTTPS instead of HTTP for its basemap layer(s). To do that you would do steps 1 and 2 above, and then open the ArcGIS Online Assistant, sign in to it with your ArcGIS Online account, search for your web map in the contents or paste in the ID of the web map, choose "View an item's JSON" from the "I want to" dropdown, click on your web map, scroll through the JSON to the Data section, click the Edit icon, scroll to the bottom of that section to the baseMapLayers part, and edit the URL(s) to make them HTTPS instead of HTTP, then scroll up and click the save button next to the pencil icon to save your change. You should be good to go at this point. Note that editing the JSON of entries in ArcGIS Online can introduce errors if you make a bad edit. Note: Map Tour users don't all need to do the above steps. The above steps are only needed if you experience the same issue that Colleen did with the Settings dialog not opening, and the locator map in the Add and Import dialogs not drawing. Sorry again about the issue and thanks for letting us know you found this problem. If possible let us know if the steps above fix it for you. Rupert ... View more