Latest Contributions by RupertEssinger

Using the generic hosted test/review instance that we maintain only lets you specify the same set of parameters that are in the Config section of your Index.html file. All this generic instance will accept as input is your (publicly shared) webmap ID and a set of parameters that mirrors what is in your Config section, all of which you throw at it via the URL. You can see all the supported parameters in this URL: http://storymaps.esri.com/templates/shortlist/?webmap=8504932f183c4b8699dc6ba28235e398&DETAILS_PANEL=true&GEOLOCATOR=true&COLOR_ORDER=green,red,blue,purple&BOOKMARKS_ALIAS=ZOOM&POINT_LAYERS_NOT_TO_BE_SHOWN_AS_TABS=Light%20rail%20stations&SUPPORTING_LAYERS_THAT_ARE_CLICKABLE=Light%20rail%20stations|Light%20rail|Neighborhoods|Parks So it won't show you any other customizations, like switching out the logo, CSS file changes, or using the extended numbered marker symbol file set that I mention in my post above. ... View more

Here's your Shortlist in our generic hosted template with the default settings: http://storymaps.esri.com/templates/shortlist/?webmap=f62b7a3ce8584d4b95e2a3b9491acd74 If you want your popups to have a Details panel, try this URL. I also threw in a parameter that turns the Locate Me button on: http://storymaps.esri.com/templates/shortlist/?webmap=f62b7a3ce8584d4b95e2a3b9491acd74&DETAILS_PANEL=true&GEOLOCATOR=true Your tabs have more than 99 places, which unfortunately isn't currently supported out of the box, so that is why you are seeing some broken point symbols on the map for some of the tabs. We've put a set of numbered marker symbols going beyond the number 99 for use in Story Maps and other apps in a zip file here: http://downloads.esri.com/blogs/places/Numbered_marker_symbol_sets.zip (In your file set don't rename Index.html. That file name has to remain the same because it is the default HTML file that gets launched by URLs that just reference a folder location) ... View more

Now you've copied your files to Dropbox, to launch your Shortlist you'll need to enter the complete URL to the index.html file on Dropbox into your web browser in order to launch it. I couldn't find a Shortlist deployed on Dropbox just now when I had a quick look but this URL to an ArcGIS Online app that a colleague made for his local preschool 🙂 shows you what the URL looks like (click the URL below to view it in your web browser): http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44841828/Turkeys2013/index.html But have you tried just using the URLs I posted above? That's the simplest way to test a Shortlist before deploying it. Or if you want post the URL of your web map here and I'll post back a URL that launches it in our generic test/review instance. ... View more

Hi Jerry Just make a folder on Dropbox and copy all the files that you downloaded onto your local host into that folder. In other words, all the files that are in the Shortlist application download that you put onto your localhost now, along with your edits to the Index.html file and any other files you might have tweaked, need to be put onto Dropbox, or any other website or web server in order to make them publicly available via the web. (The web map that you've created to use in your app, including the spatial data you uploaded into the web map to provide your Shortlist layers, is hosted in ArcGIS Online already). The images that your Shortlist layers point at via URLs can be put anywhere on the web: they don't need to be put on Dropbox with the Shortlist application files if they are already located somewhere else. Actually, if you are planning on hosting the application on your website. why not just put it there now? You can do your testing, etc but other people won't be able to access it until you publicize or link to your app's URL. Alternatively if you want to do some quick testing of your Shortlist you could edit the following URL to insert your web map's ID. The other parameters just mirror the settings in the config section of the Index.html file that you've edited, so you can edit them too. This URL accessed our generic hosted testing and review instance of the Shortlist so it won't reflect customizations you have done like switching out the Esri logo for your own, etc, but it a useful way to test your content: http://storymaps.esri.com/templates/shortlist/?webmap=8504932f183c4b8699dc6ba28235e398&DETAILS_PANEL=true&GEOLOCATOR=true&POINT_LAYERS_NOT_TO_BE_SHOWN_AS_TABS=Light%20rail%20stations&SUPPORTING_LAYERS_THAT_ARE_CLICKABLE=Light%20rail%20stations|Light%20rail|Neighborhoods|Parks Or to just use all the Shortlist defaults and have it display your web map, use edit this shorter URL to put your web map ID in there instead of the ID of my Phoenix Shortlist web map which the URL is currently using: http://storymaps.esri.com/templates/shortlist/?webmap=8504932f183c4b8699dc6ba28235e398 ... View more

It can also occur with certain accented non-English language characters currently. Sorry about the issue. ... View more

Hi Cédric I just tweeted a link to your page on https://twitter.com/EsriStoryMaps ... View more

Sorry about the issue. It means there's a character in your data that the app can't display correctly currently. This sometimes occurs if text contains 'smart' or 'curly' quotes (apostrohope, single quote, double quote, etc) instead of 'straight' quotes. Those curly quotes are often found in text that originated in Microsoft Office apps. In your text you should be able to just selected the bad character, delete it, and replace with with a normal or straight character. ... View more

Good to hear. May I tweet a link to your page of story maps on our official twitter account: https://twitter.com/EsriStoryMaps  to share it with other authors. It's a great example of how agencies can promote and present their web mapping work. ... View more

Hi Cédric That's a beautiful page of story maps! Bravo! I can launch all your story maps successfully in Firefox 29.0.1 on Windows 7. There was a temporary issue with hosted feature services yesterday morning being not-responsive but that has been fixed now: http://status.arcgis.com/ and I'm not sure if that caused the issue you saw. ... View more

Hi Frank. Where to put the Shortlist template? You can totally put the Shortlist application from the zip file onto the website where you have your portfolio. The downloadable story map templates, like the Shortlist, are just a bunch of files pretty much like any other so stick them into a folder on that website and you'll be good. Where to put the photos that the features in your Shortlist will reference? Your features can reference images at any URL but the easiest thing is to put them into a folder on your website. It can be any folder and doesn't have to be the same folder that the Shortlist template is installed in. Where to put the CSV files defining the features in your Shortlist tabs? You upload these CSV files into the ArcGIS Online web map that your Shortlist will display. Create a new web map in ArcGIS Online, open it up, and then in the web map choose Add > Add Layer from File and browse to your CSV file(s). So your CSV files are uploaded into the web map. The web map and all the data it contains is stored for you automatically in the ArcGIS cloud. The final step is to edit the line in the config section of the Index.html file in your Shortlist installation to point at the ID of your web map. Rupert ... View more

I see your fix now in Index.html and that successfully hid the < arrow that your customization exposed in the black header bar above the Places list for your one tab in the small display mode: http://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx/publish/vbehm/wwwshortlistcursosacoana/index.html ... View more

Hi Virginia You could put that line of code into style.css file in the existing .icon-arrow-left sectionfile like this: .icon-arrow-left{      display: none !important;      color: #ededed;      position: absolute;      left: 5px;      top: 8px; } but we'd recommend adding it into the the Index.html file as a custom style (after line 33 - which is after where the other css files are specified) like this: <style>     .icon-arrow-left{         display: none !important;     } </style> In this way the changes you make to the code can be concentrated in the index.html which is specific to your particular Shortlist, which may make it easier for you to re-use your Shortlist code for other shortlists without having to remember what you changed in the CSS file. ... View more

Hi Virginia Regarding the issue in your customized Shortlist where you have changed it so that the single category of places in your Shortlist is shown as a tab, but in the mobile display an inactive < arrow appears next to this tab's name (see the screenshot above): We think you can hide that unwanted < arrow if you add a css rule: .icon-arrow-left{     display: none !important; } ... View more