Hi There,
I created a new public Story Map of our Civil Defence (Emergency Management) information using the tabbed style. During the event I was requested to add power outages, I found a website that had this information (Home - Powerco ), unfortunately they didnt have consumable web services so I thought I would add the web page as a new tab.
When I added the new tab with the link (above) and saved the Story Map. I went to test it and it would go to the StoryMap but then would load the webpage (link above) without actually opening the webpage. When i went to edit the page it did exactly the same thing.
The only way I could fix the problem was to delete the story map and rebuild a new story map. Has anyone experienced this before?
Cheers Andrew
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As Rupert suspected, I can reproduce this by trying to embed that website in an iframe on an otherwise blank webpage. When I load the webpage, it immediately redirects my browser to the powerco site.
Below is the address of the actual page that's embedded in http://www.powerco.co.nz/power-cuts in its own iframe. You should be able to embed it with more success:
http://ec2-52-64-145-153.ap-southeast-2.compute.amazonaws.com/Outagesandfaults/
(unselect the https option when you add this, as this site does not work over https)
Alison
Could you share a link to your story map (if it is public). I'm not really clear on what the issue is you are seeing.
Rupert
Hi Rupert,
The best way is to try an explain this in steps.
Hope this explains it
Cheers
Andrew
Thanks Andrew. I can reproduce that too. I've not seen that particular behavior with a web page embedded in a Story Map before, but I think something about that site you are trying to embed in the Story Map doesn't lend itself to being embedded. It seems to return itself in a new browser tab when embedded. If I look at the HTML code for that page there's a full screen frame that I think causes that. I think you will find the same behavior if you try and embed that site in a standard frame in a web page. The Story Map is not getting corrupted in any way. Story Maps don't do anything special with web content you embed: they just try and display it in the available space the same way that content would be displayed if embedded in a standard web page. Some websites restrict embedding but I don't think this is a case of that. Either way, if an embedded web page or web content doesn't work, you could just include a link to it in the narrative text in your story map that opens it in a separate web browser tab. Perhaps that organization makes their data available in a form you could add to an ArcGIS Online web map?
Rupert
As Rupert suspected, I can reproduce this by trying to embed that website in an iframe on an otherwise blank webpage. When I load the webpage, it immediately redirects my browser to the powerco site.
Below is the address of the actual page that's embedded in http://www.powerco.co.nz/power-cuts in its own iframe. You should be able to embed it with more success:
http://ec2-52-64-145-153.ap-southeast-2.compute.amazonaws.com/Outagesandfaults/
(unselect the https option when you add this, as this site does not work over https)
Alison
Hi Alison and Rupert,
Many thanks for your assistance I will test this out.
Cheers
Andrew