Latest Contributions by RupertEssinger

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Yeah, there's no way to make a URL that opens up the Story Map Series, goes to a particular tab in the Series, and then goes to a particular place in a Story Map Tour that is embedded in that tab. You can of course embed a Story Map Tour in a tab in a Story Map Series so that it displays a particular place in that tour, using this URL (which includes &embed to make it headless like it is in your embed already) https://encinitas.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapTour/index.html?appid=63fc926eea204922905e567b3b60d7a5&embed&index=3  The Story Map Series URL doesn't accept (and therefore ignores) the &index parameter you have added at the end of what you posted above. Rupert PS. I am based in San Diego County so I like all those City of Encinitas improvements going on ... View more

Hi Guillermo Our place-based Story Map templates (Story Map Tour and Story Map Shortlist) currently don't support multiple images for one place. It's been a frequent request from authors and we are looking to build that capability into some new development work we are planning this year, initially for Map Tour. In the meantime, here are a couple of ideas/workarounds. Some authors have created a single composite image made of several photos. Here's an example of this in a Map Tour (take the tour to see the pics). See: Displaying multiple photos at a single location in a Story Map Tour | ArcGIS Blog .  In Story Map Tour is possible to embed third-party web content that presents multiple images in place of the single image for a tour point, like a gallery of images about that tour point. See this blog post for how to do this with a Flickr album: Adding Flickr sets to story map map tours | ArcGIS Blog  If you want to show multiple photos and unlimited text narrative for each place, you could consider using Story Map Journal instead. Each section in your Map Journal would be about one place, or neighborhood, and the side panel for that section can include as many images as you like. A nice thing with Story Map Journal is that you have complete control over the map shown for each section in terms of extent and content. I couldn't find a Map Journal example specifically about public art in our Story Maps Gallery, but these might give you some ideas: Wellington's Treasured Spaces: http://wcc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=cc9b48a06b324b538bec40d1b221e48d  Impressions of France: https://timw1984.github.io/france/  100 años de Parques Nacionales http://preventas.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=03a111672f8f4d5fbf7328472a019c05  Story Map Cascade is another possibility. This is very flexible and free form in how it lets you present images, text and maps together. See some Travel and Recreation Cascade examples in our Story Maps Gallery for possible ideas. Rupert ... View more

Hi Shawn.  Glad you like the American Planning Association "Great Places" story. This (currently) uses the Story Map Shortlist version 1 app. That version of the Story Map Shortlist is freely available still via Github (the last release of version 1 was 1.4.9). Version 1 is out-of-the-box app but it was only ever made available as a download. So to use it you have to download the code, self-host it on a website or web server, and point the code at a web map containing a point layer of places as described in the Readme file in the download. There's no interactive builder but it isn't hard for GIS folks to set up. With some dev skills you can also customize the look and feel of the app, like the graphical header you see the APA Great Places story. The new version of Story Map Shortlist, version 2 (beta), is a hosted app with an interactive builder builder, so you no longer need to download and self-host the app, and it is much easier to build. This is the Story Map Shortlist app you'll see in the Configurable Apps Gallery in ArcGIS Online (*see footnote) or if you launch the Shortlist Builder from the Shortlist page on the Story Maps website. Version 2 uses the tab area instead of a popup to show a nice big picture of the place you select and there's more room for text. Plus there are <  > browse buttons for easy touring of places.  That text can include hyperlinks too. So we think it is cooler than version 1. Here's a unofficial and unproof-read draft version of the same APA Great Places Shortlist (URL not for promotion) implemented using Shortlist version 2 so you can compare the two look and feels. Note that to get the same graphic header look and customized colors that we use in that APA example, you would still need to download and self-host the Shortlist version 2. Here's an example Shortlist version 2 with no customization, hosted in ArcGIS Online. In version 2 you can still get popups for features shown on the map that aren't the places shown in the tabs. For example in this Shortlist of hiking trails and walks in Utah County, zoom in until you see the hiking trail line features and then click on them (*) = If you don't see the Story Map Shortlist 2 (beta) app in your configurable apps gallery in ArcGIS Online then one of the following applies: You are using Portal for ArcGIS, not ArcGIS Online. Shortlist isn't available in Portal yet because it is still in beta, but should be available later in the year.  You are using ArcGIS Online but not in English. The current Shortlist beta isn't translated into the non-English ArcGIS Online languages so it doesn't appear in the Configurable app gallery by default if you are working in those languages. You can still launch the Shortlist Builder from the Shortlist page on the Story Maps website or ask your ArcGIS Online Organization admin to add it to your gallery. Shortlist will be translated into all supported languages in the upcoming end of February ArcGIS Online update, but, as a beta app, will only appear in the Configurable app gallery by default for English, French, Spanish and German users.  Your ArcGIS Online Organization's Configurable app gallery might be customized in your enterprise to remove that app for some reason. Let your admin know you want it or launch the Builder from our website. Note that if you want to create a Story Map Shortlist using existing point data in a web map, you have to launch the Shortlist builder via that web map from the Configurable App Gallery. Launching the Shortlist Builder from our website doesn't give you the option to use an existing web map in your Shortlist, and instead it creates a web map for you. Hope not TMI Rupert ... View more

Hi, If you download one of the Story Map apps to customize/self host it, you can point it at an application on a Portal for ArcGIS deployment.  However Story Map Shortlist isn't currently supported on Portal because it is still in beta. We'll be going final with Shortlist in a release mid-year, and then it should be available in the Portal for ArcGIS update after that.  The older, download-only version of Story Map Shortlist, version 1, uses a popup to display the info about the place (for example see this customized Shortlist of some cool architecture in Washtenaw County, MI) instead of displaying it in tab area like in version 2 (beta). At version 2 we made that design change in order to provide a bigger picture, more text space and browse buttons.  For more info and how to point a downloaded story map app at an app on Portal, please see this question in the Story Maps FAQ page:    > Can I create story maps using Esri's Portal for ArcGIS? http://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/faq/#question8  Rupert PS. Off the record, if you are using Portal for ArcGIS 10.5 and you search your Portal for 'Story Map Shortlist' you may be able to find a entry for the app which lets you build a Shortlist. However this is unofficial, unsupported, and the Shortlist you create may not work in the next update to Portal, so don't use it for any production deployments. ... View more

Hi Kayla It is possible currently to turn a Story Map Tour into a native mobile app that your readers can access via the various App stores. The app you create can feature one or more Map Tours. The product to do that is AppStudio for ArcGIS. The app you create is not a generic viewer: it is only used to view the Map Tour(s) that you build into it. No coding is required and the process of submitting the app to the App stories is done for you by AppStudio. Apart from that, we don't have a mobile app currently. The Story Map apps are web apps that run in the web browser. The layout of the app changes to adjust to smaller displays like phones but it still runs in the web browser. We are considering some potential future development to utilize native apps, either for viewing or authoring, or both. Let us know if you have any requirements or thoughts about this. Rupert ... View more

Hi Stacey To keep the Shortlist UI fairly simple looking we don't support grouping places that are displayed inside a tab, so there's only one level of organization in a Shortlist. So apart from manually organizing your places in a particular order in a tab, or adding some additional text into the names of places to indicate groups or sets, there's no way to do that. For example if you have a tab containing restaurants you could add 'Food Truck', 'Diner', 'Restaurant', 'Coffee Shop' to the beginning of the name of each place and then manually organize the places so all the Food Trucks are listed first in the tab. You could also add a graphic icon to each thumbnail in a tab to indicate what group or type of place it is, or have the whole thumbnail be that icon, instead of using a different photo for each place. You also can't embed content into a Shortlist tab because the tabs only show places, so unlike Story Map Series and Story Map Journal you can't create a tab or section which contains something that itself contains more tabs or sections. Rupert ... View more

Hi Sanjay, If you want your readers to be able to see the coordinates of point features on a web map when they click on them, you could configure popups for the layer in your web map containing those features. If the coordinate values are attributes in the table for that layer, you can include those attributes in the popup that your readers will see. You do that popup configuration in the ArcGIS Map Viewer. To add point coordinates into the layer's attribute table as field values (if your data doesn't already have these fields) in ArcGIS for Desktop you could use the Calculate Geometry command or Add XY Coordinates tool, or in ArcGIS Online you could use the Extract Data analysis command. If you want your readers to be able to see a coordinate readout showing them the current location of their cursor as they move it over the map, that is something that the Story Map apps don't have a built-in option for. In the ArcGIS Map Viewer people use the Measure control to see this readout, which opens a dialog in which the info is displayed. The Story Map apps don't have the option to expose the Measure control when they display a web map. However there are other configurable apps in ArcGIS that do give you the option of adding a Measure button into the app, like the Basic Viewer. For example you could create a Basic Viewer app from your web map, and turn off unwanted controls but turn on the Measure control. Then you could embed that Basic Viewer app into a section of your Story Map Journal (using the web page option) so that your readers can use the Measure control. The UI won't look quite the same as other web maps in your Journal, but it is a useful way to get additional functionality into your story map. Rupert ... View more

Hi Melissa Just checking: are you launching the Shortlist containing the Locate button using https?  My colleague Stephen Sylvia‌ writes: If the URL starts with "http," you are loading you story on an insecure connection. Modern browsers will not provide a user's location to a website unless the website connects using a secure connection to prevent a hacker from stealing that user's location information. Because of this, we disable the locate button when the story is loaded via "http."  (See https://community.esri.com/thread/189030-cant-display-locate-button-on-story-map-tour ) If you still have issues, let us know.   Note: in the next ArcGIS Online update (planned for the end of February, we'll be adding the "Locate me" button and the Addres/place/feature search control as options that authors can turn on in their hosted Shortlists, so you won't need to custom code and self-host a Shortlist in order to present those to your users. The limitation with the "Locate me" button will still apply. Rupert ... View more