Latest Contributions by RupertEssinger

Hi Virginia In our small display mode, we hide the name of the tab on purpose, the same as we do in the normal display mode. If someone opens your story map on their phone or small tablet, the first thing they'll see is the title and subtitle of your app. (If you open your app in large browser window and then resize it so that the small display mode is used, you won't see the title and subtitle of the app because you already opened the app). But press Refresh after resizing your web browser and you will see the title and subtitle. But I can see why you want to add the long name into the tab. Your customization of the Shortlist to add the name of the tab in when there is just one tab is nice, but I noticed that there is an issue: there's a left arrow in the header that doesn't do anything when it is clicked (see the attached image). That arrow isn't there normally if there is just one tab in the Shortlist, but I'll see if that is something we should fix in the template in case other people do the same customization that you did. Your ACOANA training Shortlist is nice: http://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx/publish/vbehm/wwwshortlistcursosacoana/index.html Could you add a web mapping application entry into ArcGIS Online representing that application, so that people can find it when they search or add it into a gallery. You've added one of these entries for your indigenous arts shortlist but not yet for the new one: http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=b3351e5f4e454a71b36012852c53ba48 Please include 'story map', 'shortlist', 'custom' in the Tags, in addition to your other tags. Rupert ... View more

Last night we released the update to the Shortlist download that features the option for authors to turn on a Locator button in the UI. This is off by default. To enable it, set the new GEOLOCATOR variable in the Config section of the Index.html file to true instead of false. This update also includes a new responsive design. The link to the download on the Shortlist page: http://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/app-list/shortlist will now give you the updated Shortlist zip file. To try it out the updated Shortlist click the San Diego Shortlist screenshot on the page above or launch it here: http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/shortlist-sandiego/. If you are working on a desktop or laptop machine, you can resize your web browser window to see the responsive design. If you open that link on a smartphone or tablet it will adjust accordingly. ... View more

Hi Virginia Looks good. Perhaps you have considered submitting some of your story maps, like the 'Catálogo de Colectivas de Arte Indígena de la Cuenca del Río Caura', to the Esri Story Maps competition. This competition is open until June 2nd. Also last night we released the update to the Shortlist download that features its new responsive design. The link to the download on the Shortlist page: http://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/app-list/shortlist will now give you the updated Shortlist. To try it out the new responsive design, click the San Diego Shortlist screenshot on the page above or launch it here: http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/shortlist-sandiego/. If you are working on a desktop or laptop machine, you can resize your web browser window to see the responsive design. If you open that link on a smartphone or tablet it will adjust accordingly. All the best. ... View more

Hi all We've now released the update to the Shortlist that features its new responsive design. Sorry we were a bit delayed compared to the apps list on the website. The link to the download on the Shortlist page: http://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/app-list/shortlist will now give you the updated Shortlist. To try it out the new responsive design, click the San Diego Shortlist screenshot on the page above or launch it here: http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/shortlist-sandiego/ ... View more

If you post the link to your story map we can have a look at it. ... View more

I see the issue now. In your web map, edit the name of the layer called "Waste & Recycling" to be just "Waste & Recycling" and it will work. Using  &amp instead of & in names was the workaround when we had the bug. When we fixed the bug, that workaround was no longer needed, and it looks like the Shortlist no longer likes the workaround 😐 But anyway, just use & instead of  &amp and it will work. ... View more

Could you share a link to your Shortlist story map so we can have a look at the issue? Or if the app is not one you want to make public can you share a link to the ArcGIS web map it displays? There used to be a bug in the Shortlist where a tab wouldn't adopt the highlight color if it had a & character in its name. We fixed that some time ago though and I can't repro the issue with these two test maps using the latest version: Shortlist with 5 tabs two of which has & character in it: http://storymaps.esri.com/templates/shortlist/?webmap=7e2b602d8b054b8b8e7ca3756a9a75a8&DETAILS_PANEL=true Shortlist with 5 tabs: http://storymaps.esri.com/templates/shortlist/?webmap=0856d82fb5fb4ae7adb787d4c2f5f0e3&DETAILS_PANEL=true ... View more

URLs need to point at actual image files, with file extensions like png or jpg, like this one: http://downloads.esri.com/blogs/places/sandiego/cafe_222.png in order for the images used in web pages and web apps like story maps. Your URLs point at web pages in which image files are embedded, not to the actual image files themselves. ... View more

One quick tip that is indirectly related to this. In the current version of the Shortlist released three weeks ago, we made a couple of changes that make it easier to work with supporting layers (i.e. layers containing features that you add into a Shortlist that are in addition to the numbered point features that are represented in the tabs): 1) You can now add supporting layers into a Shortlist. Previously it wasn't possible to add a point layer into a Shortlist without it being treated as defining one of the tabs. There's a new POINT_LAYERS_NOT_TO_BE_SHOWN_AS_TABS variable in the index.html that lets you specify these layers. For example this new option lets you add features like trolley stations, bus stops or wells into your Shortlist that users can click on to get more information without them appearing as numbered points and defining a tab. 2) By default, supporting layers you add into a Shortlist from shapefiles (point, line or poly) or CSV files (points) are not clickable by the user. Previously these layers were always clickable and this wasn't great because you were perhaps just trying to add some some features into your map not intending them to be clickable, and users would get odd looking results if they clicked on the features if they didn't have all the Shortlist attributes. So shapefile and CSV file based layers are not clickable unless the author specifically opts in by specifying the names of the supporting layer(s) they want to be clickable in the new SUPPORTING_LAYERS_THAT_ARE_CLICKABLE variable in the Index.html. You can see both of these variables at work in the example below via overrides specified as URL parameters (which is easier than editing the index.html file for showing examples because it saves me having to install the Shortlist specially just to show this particular example). In this example, I've added a shapefile layer called Stations into a test Shortlist containing all the trolley stations in San Diego. So via the URL parameters I've told the Shortlist not to use the Stations layer to define a tab and to also treat this layer, and several others in the web map, as clickable layers, so users can click on them to get a popup of information. The Stations layer is one I downloaded from the SANGIS website as a shapefile, and then all I had to do was add the attributes that the Shortlist expects, like the link to an image, to populate the popups: http://storymaps.esri.com/templates/shortlist/?webmap=609cc1431cf94b9eb5a72427af6d3409&POINT_LAYERS_NOT_TO_BE_SHOWN_AS_TABS=Stations&SUPPORTING_LAYERS_THAT_ARE_CLICKABLE=Neighborhoods|Ferries|Beaches|Parks|Stations (The trolley lines were also downloaded from SANGIS and are actually a feature service in this map. I didn't want the trolley lines to be clickable in this Shortlist). Note that this Shortlist also doesn't make use of the Details panel. This is another new feature. By default now, the Shortlist popups don't have a Details panel. This is a nice default because it means that authors who don't want to provide all of the Shortlist attributes that are used to populate the Details panel don't have to. (Not all Shortlist authors write as much as I do about places!). We noticed that a lot of Shortlists folks were making didn't have much info in the Details panel. So now you can make a Shortlist with just a few attributes for each place. If you do want to use the Details panel, you can simply opt in using the new DETAILS_PANEL variable in the Index.html file. Make that true instead of false and you'll have a Details panel. The link below launches the same Shortlist as the link above except that I enabled the Details panel by putting DETAILS_PANEL=true in the URL as an override: http://storymaps.esri.com/templates/shortlist/?webmap=609cc1431cf94b9eb5a72427af6d3409&DETAILS_PANEL=true&POINT_LAYERS_NOT_TO_BE_SHOWN_AS_TABS=Stations&SUPPORTING_LAYERS_THAT_ARE_CLICKABLE=Neighborhoods|Ferries|Beaches|Parks|Stations If you want to take advantage of these new features and don't see those variables in your index.html file, then you should download the Shortlist application again. The Readme.pdf in the download has the full details. I've put a copy of the Readme online here too: http://downloads.esri.com/blogs/places/shortlist/Readme.pdf ... View more

If you are simply including tags in your captions in order to launch more information, they should normally be absolute URLs not relative ones because relative links are appended to the root of the app, which in the case of the hosted map tour app will be the ArcGIS Online root. (If you are deploying a map tour via  by downloading the app and self-hosting it you will have access to the root). Either way use the target = _blank tag in your hyperlink to ensure that the link is launched in another browser tab so the user doesn't lose theirplace in the tour. Some authors are customizing the app to add additional ways of providing information from inside the app. An advanced example of this I saw this week is http://ims.kiel.de/extern/storymaps/Kollhorst/ which is one of 6 customized nature trail tours on this page: http://www.kiel.de/leben/umwelt/naturschutz/naturpfade.php ... View more

Hi Saiful We are going to be including the option to turn on the Locator button in the next update to the Shortlist template. We hope to make this update within the next three weeks and I'll post another reply to your question when it becomes available and also tweet about it on https://twitter.com/EsriStoryMaps ... View more

Also have a look at the info about the Side Accordion application on the Story Maps website: http://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/app-list/side-accordion/ The Crimea Story Map was created with the Side Accordion template. To make a side accordion, you first create each of the ArcGIS web maps that your story map will be showing (one for each tab on the left hand side). Then you download the Side Accordion template source files, modify one of them in a text editor to make it reference each of your web maps, and then you copy the source files into the file structure of a public web site or web server you have access to. For example this might be a step you can do yourself, or it might be something that an IT admin person who maintains, say, your institution's website, will do for you. (Your web maps and the data they use don't get copied over: those live in Esri's cloud still..all you are installing onto your website or web server are the source files for the Side Accordion app that will reference those maps and data). At that point your story map will be live on the web and everything will just work. The Side Accordion is one of the story map application templates that is only available as a download. There are other story map applications: Map Tour, Tabbed Viewer, and Swipe, that are available hosted in Esri's cloud and available as downloads. See this page for more details: storymaps.arcgis.com/en/app-list/ ... View more