Latest Contributions by RupertEssinger

Hi, We don't offer either of those options in the hosted Story Map Series, but especially the first option would be a good enhancement. One thing you could do as a workaround is to create a Story Map Basic app for your overview map and then display that, using the &embed parameter to hide its header, in your Map Series: http://www.arcgis.com/apps/StoryMapBasic/index.html?appid=a0a12caf5025441497d49d35b01a07f8&embed ... View more

One more option for handling larger number of features/places with pictures is our Story Map Shortlist app. This organizes features into tabs, where each tab contains the features/places of a particular type. So the user experience is oriented more to browsing than linear sequence like in the Story Map Tour and Story Map Journal. Note that the Shortlist currently doesn't support directly/easily accessing pictures in online albums, and currently doesn't support displaying images at a large size. We are working on enhancing the Shortlist in both of these areas later this year. Another option to consider, instead of trying to put everything into one story map, might be to create several story maps, such as a set of Story Map Tours, in which to present your content, and then make a web page or gallery providing access to all those stories. For example if your collection of photos can be divided up some way, you could enable people to select the category they want to view, and then launch a smaller, more manageable story map letting them view that category. You may get some ideas for what this might look like from this set of examples in the Story Maps Gallery, although there's not really a great example of what I have in mind in there. ... View more

Can we just check that in the Settings > Map Option dialog you have the 'Synchronize map locations' check box checked. ... View more

Hi Suzanne The link you pasted has &edit at the end so it tries to launch the Story Map Series builder. Here's the correct link to your app https://ufl.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=35d03fa6b1634cddae26fb8723456f43 I do see the changing extents when I click the Home button. Are you using one web map in this series or multiple web maps? ... View more

Could you let us know of which our Story Map application templates you are referring to. We have several different apps, and each one provides authors with a different layout and user experience for delivering a story. http://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/app-list/ Rupert ... View more

There are some nice Story Map Tours where authors have created single images from a collage of several photos: http://dubuque.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapTour/index.html?appid=14ed42ce82c140c1ae5c5a32d7d3407f http://slocity.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapTour/index.html?appid=8276112a27a24dc7af0c3daa3b07c59 http://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapTour/index.html?appid=61f838d5480e40e1b48555744beef0e0 ... View more

We'll have a look into that. Could you share your map journal publicly and post the link here, or could you provide a screenshot showing the issue? Rupert ... View more

Hi Kory The Story Map apps are really designed to create UIs where the end users aren't provided with that level of control. So we don't expose checkable layer lists because for this sort of UI it is easier if the author creates great looking maps with the best selection of layers for the story being told. As an author creating a Story Map Series, you can use one or more maps in your story for each entry (tab, bullet, etc) in your series, and you can choose which layers you want to display. So for example you could have different layers turn on and off automatically as people switch between the different entries in your series. Another option to check out is the Main Stage Actions in the Story Map Journal, This lets you author links or buttons in your narrative that, when your end users press them, perform actions on the map like turning specific layers on or off, zooming to particular extents, panning to a feature and displaying its popup, etc. So that is another way you can allow your end users to interact with your maps: Using Story Map Journal Main Stage Actions | ArcGIS Blog ... View more