Latest Contributions by RupertEssinger

Hi Kelly We've not seen that issue you describe before. If your Shortlist is shared publicly, could you post a link to it here so we can take a look? You may want to also create a Story Map Series and turn on the Locate button in that app to see if that works for you too (you can find the option in the Settings > Map Options) because Story Map Series uses the same code as Shortlist for the button. Note that in Shortlist 1.4.9 you can enable a Locate button. Here's a test example launched via https in which the Locate button has been turned on via a URL parameter (or in your index.html look for the GEOLOCATOR configuration parameter). The Locator button code  in 1.4.9 is rather older: For example if a 1.4.9 Shortlist is launched on http the button still appears in the UI, whereas in 2.0 the button is hidden on http. Rupert ... View more

Hi Alex,  When you create a Shortlist, the Shortlist stores the places you author in a layer in its own format. The only exception to this is if you create a Shortlist using the new 'as-is' option. With the 'as-is' option, it reads the Shortlist points from a layer in the web map that you create your Shortlist from, and lets you edit and manage your places in that web map, instead of interactively in the Shortlist Builder. With the 'as-is' option you are free to update the places in your Shortlist either by editing the layer in your web map, or completely replacing the layer in that web map with a different layer: the Shortlist just reads the layer and displays it 'as-is'.  But with all the other ways of creating a Shortlist, such as creating from a web map and importing the points, or starting 'from scratch' and interactively adding the points in the Builder, you can't go into the web map in which the Shortlist is storing the places and do anything to that layer because the Shortlist stores places in that layer in its own format. There's not really a way for us to lock that layer so you can't edit it, but you shouldn't That layer has 'DO NOT REMOVE' in its name but we should probably make that 'DO NOT REMOVE OR EDIT'. It will break your Shortlist if you try and edit or replace that layer, and I believe that's what happened to you above. You can make other edits to the web map that the Shortlist is storing its places in, such as adding additional supporting layers, such as layers that you want to use in the Address/Place finder, but must make sure to close the Shortlist Builder first: if you make edits to that web map in one browser tab while the Shortlist Builder is open in another tab it can similarly break your Shortlist or result in you losing work if you try and save changes in either or both tabs. If you want to be able to edit your Shortlist places in the web map instead of in the Shortlist Builder you have to use the 'as-is' option. See our What's New in Story Maps blog post for info about that. We added that 'as-is' option because GIS Pros like to be able to create and manage data themselves. The 'as-is' option requires that your places are in a single layer that uses our Shortlist data template schema. Note that 'as-is' currently doesn't work with ArcGIS Server feature services (i.e, enterprise services not hosted in ArcGIS Online). I think you might be trying to use the Address/Place Finder in Shortlist in order to allow the user to search the places in your Shortlist. This isn't supported because your places are arranged in tabs that the Address/Place Finder doesn't know about, and because, unless you are using the 'as-is' option to create your Shortlist, the layer that the Shortlist uses to store your places can't be used to define a place based search in a web map.  Rupert ... View more

Hi Tony I'm seeing if we can include a fix to that issue you alerted us to in an upcoming 'patch' release.   If you try the workaround of assembling your places in a feature layer (either using an existing point feature layer or creating a new one, or starting with an Excel spreadsheet of all your places you can just upload into a web map as a feature layer) I recommend that you use our Shortlist data template (click to download zip file). This will simplify creating a Shortlist from a web map and can be used with both the 'import' option and the 'as is' live link option. Shortlist should be coming out of beta just before the User Conference this summer. We're having a look at what additional functionality to add for the next release. Feel free to let us know about any you'd like to see added. Perhaps start a new thread on the Story Maps Geonet forum, or alternatively add them into the ArcGIS Ideas area in Geonet. Rupert ... View more

Hi Niklas For your issue 1 (allow Shortlist to display the contents of a web map and reflect changes on that map made outside the Shortlist Builder) we have now added that option to Story Map Shortlist beta 2.0. Please see this response in this other thread: https://community.esri.com/thread/189575-adding-new-locations-to-shortlist#comment-670301  Rupert ... View more

Hi Melissa,  We have now updated Shortlist to include the 'as-is' authoring workflow option that Mark described above that live links your Shortlist to places in your web map instead of importing them into them into its own data store. It was released as part of last night's ArcGIS Online update. For more info about that option and other new features in the Story Map apps, please see: What’s New in Story Maps (March 2017) | ArcGIS Blog  Also please let us know if you have questions or comments about this new authoring workflow. Rupert ... View more

Hi Sylvian With last night's update to ArcGIS Online, you'll now see Story Map Shortlist beta in the ArcGIS Online Configurable App gallery when your ArcGIS Online language is English, French, German or Spanish: If you are using ArcGIS Online in a different language than those four mentioned above, you won't see Shortlist when you create an app from a web map: while Shortlist is in beta you will need to switch to a different language in order to create a Shortlist from a web map. ... View more

Not sure why it isn't working for you. For example you can load my pics from a hike in Mammoth into a Map Tour by accessing this Flickr album: A Winter Hike in Mammoth | Flickr  ( user name to type into the Map Tour Flickr Import dialog = Rupert Essinger ). It is cool how Map Tour also reads in my image names, captions and the order they are in within that album. So adding that info and doing that ordering in Flickr saves a lot of time in Map Tour, especially if you decide to make several tours from the same images or use them in a Story Map Shortlist. Did you perhaps upload your images into Flickr and then turn the option on to import EXIF data when you upload into Flickr? It doesn't apply retroactively. Back when I first got started with Flickr I uploaded my pics, then realized I had to turn on that option in Flickr (because it is off by default for new accounts), then realized I had to upload them again in order to get the geotags into Flickr. Rupert ... View more

Thanks for the info Sylvain. That is interesting because I didn't realize that changing the region would do that.:) Can I check: when you change your region location did that change your ArcGIS Online website language to English, or is the language still French? Or have you changed the region and the language setting? (The Shortlist Builder will be English until our March 1 release) Rupert ... View more

I concur with the other replies here. We've not heard of an issue with the Story Map Tour rotating images differently from their stored format. I have definitely experienced sending a picture from an iPhone to my PC via email and finding it unexpectedly being rotated when I open it on my PC. In those cases I found I had to open and save the image in Windows Paint to get the correct orientation to stick. Rupert ... View more

Hi Jenni Yes, feel free to post this as an idea in the ArcGIS Ideas part of Geonet: https://community.esri.com/community/arcgis-ideas  (I don't see this as an existing idea already in there). This enables other folks on Geonet to vote for the idea too. We also track these as part of our development process and value these ideas and votes highly. Rupert ... View more