Latest Contributions by RupertEssinger

Hi Chris This isn't possible with apps embedded in Story Maps. We'd recommend using standard web maps instead of embedded apps to get this sort of experience. For example in a Story Map Series, you can show different maps in different tabs (or the same map with different layers turned on in different tabs) and then if your reader chooses a particular place or location, that extent is automatically carried over to those other tabs. We have got this on our list though for a possible future enhancement because embedding apps inside Story Maps, especially Story Map Series is becoming a popular way to present a set of apps in an easy to use 'binder'. There could be ways to carry the reader's chosen location from app to app. But we do feel that if you can do this simply with web maps instead of apps, it is a clean, easy to understand experience for readers, especially the sort of non-technical non-GIS audience a lot of publicly shared stories are aimed at. Rupert ... View more

I've not seen that done from a web page like you describe. Another approach would be to divide a large Story Map Journal up into separate stories and create a standard web page provides links to each Map Journal. For example, see: People for Bikes: How it got Built https://peopleforbikes.org/how-it-got-built/  Or you could use an ArcGIS Online Gallery app to present a set of Map Journals, like: https://usfs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/PublicGallery/index.html?appid=bb59566ba3574c92aa04038aed91276b  Rupert ... View more

Could you check if they get the same issue if they open your Story Map Basic app when  they just open it. not embedded inside a Story Map Journal? I suspect this may be an issue with the sharing status of the content in that Basic story, or the story itself, rather than related to it being embedded in a Story Map. It sounds like it isn't all accessible publicly (and so is requiring a sign-in).  I think a better solution for what you are doing would be to simply add another section into your Map Journal that displays the web map, with the legend turned on, instead of trying to display it inside another Story Map via a Story Action. I think it's a simpler solution that would be easier for your readers to use. I feel that Story Actions that display a completely different web app can be a bit disorienting for readers.  Rupert ... View more

Hi Mia Regarding attribution for Story Map authorship, we treat that as part of the editorial and branding of the story. So for example in the header of Story Maps a logo can be included, and authors can optionally include text in their content with additional authorship info or credits. The Story Map Cascade app template has a formal Credits section at the end too.  To find the actual owner info for a particular story, see if there are any usage constraints, see how many times it has been viewed, find other stories by the same author, leave a comment or suggestion for an author, etc, you can search ArcGIS Online to find the entry for the story. The item details entry for any Story Map, other web app, map or data layer will show you the owner name and you can click on their profile to find out more. So here's a search that fishes out one of the Map Tours you mention above: https://www.arcgis.com/home/search.html?q=%22Seven%20Wonders%3A%20The%20Ancient%20List%22&t=content&start=1&sortOrder=de…  and you can click on that entry to find out more: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=dc6b73b9993741d891793c113d5ac7e7  Both of those tours were created by the Esri Story Maps team. To speed up the search process, if a Story Map has an 'app-id' in its URL, like this one does: https://apl.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=862af890c7ff49bd89402a53cea0e362  you can copy that ID and paste it into the ArcGIS Online search, preceded by 'id' to go directly that the entry for that story: https://www.arcgis.com/home/search.html?q=id%3A862af890c7ff49bd89402a53cea0e362&t=content&start=1&sortOrder=desc&sortFie…  That saves you doing a search on the item title, which might return several search results because it takes you directly to that specified item. This method works for any item in ArcGIS Online with an ID, not just Story Maps. (The two Story Map Tours you reference above don't have an app-id in their URL because the authors hosted the source code on their own server, but if you want to get the specific appID of the Story Map being displayed via that self-hosted code, you can view the source code and look for the appid line in the source code). Hope that helps Rupert ... View more

Hi Stephanie Sorry about the issue. It's not really clear in our builder interface but when you use images from Flickr or Google Plus they are referenced from the Story Map, not imported into the Story Map. So if the images are deleted from Flickr or unshared, they won't be available in the Story Map. Accessing pictures from Flickr or Google Plus is really intended to be used when you or someone else are already publicly sharing images via those systems and you want to also include them in a Story Map. You could upload your images directly into the Story Map Journal builder, which is the easiest way to work with images. Alternatively you could put them onto a web server and reference them directly via URLs. That can be a good solution if you have a large number of image you want to work with because you can manage them yourself. For example I have 200+ images of San Diego that I use in various Story Maps so managing them on a web server works well because I can reference them via URLs from multiple stories instead of uploading them into each story. The tricky part with doing that, assuming you can get access to a web server or website to put them on, is ensuring that they aren't too large. Unlike accessing pics in Flickr or uploading them, Story Maps don't optimize images you reference via URLs, so you have to be aware of the size recommendations, and if your images are too large to start with it can be a pain to resize them. If you are making a Shortlist or a Map Tour though, referencing your images via URLs is really useful because you can include those URLs in a spreadsheet that you use to author those stories. (Shortlist and Map Tour are place-driven, so they let you define your places in a spreadsheet and generate the Story Map from that spreadsheet. Hope that helps. Rupert ... View more