Crowdsource Beta Feedback

[SarahZaleski]

After working with the crowdsource storymap beta version for a little, here are a few ideas that I think would be improvements.

1. Email notification of a submission to owner
2. Ability to delete submissions
3. Ability to hide submissions (make data not readable by anyone)
4. Have location symbol change color when selected.

[StephenSylvia · Accepted solution]

Thank you for your feedback. We are hoping to bring many of the enhancements, many of which have already been on our enhancement list, in a future version of the Crowdsource. A couple comments and questions:

1. Email notification of a submission to owner
   • Unfortunately we will not be able to add this in the near term. For technical and security reason, we can not provide notifications directly from the app to the user. We are investigating if it is feasible to enhance ArcGIS Online with an messaging system that can work with app templates.
2. Ability to delete submissions
   • Definitely to come. Currently in the builder, you can choose to "reject" a contribution which will hide it in the public version of the app.
3. Ability to hide submissions (make data not readable by anyone)
   • Can you provide more information about how you would like hide to work? Just remove it from the public version? Hide it in the app altogether, even in builder? Hide it in the feature service in ArcGIS online? How would this be different from delete?
4. Have location symbol change color when selected.
   • We are thinking about adding this in one of the next releases.

[SarahZaleski]

Thanks!

If we can hide submissions then we can keep a record of what was submitted, versus deleting them.

[StephenSylvia]

Does "rejecting" them in the builder work? This will remove them from the public story but still allow you to view them in the builder if you choose to show "all" or "rejected" posts.

[SarahZaleski1]

Hello,

Yes, the hide feature works fine.

I would like to suggest the ability for people to send feedback or have a place to put a contact on the map. There is not a location right now for people to contact the map owner.

I have also found that the map is a little slow to load, or process photos when I am on my mobile, it is an android Moto G.

Thanks!

Sarah

(this is a different user name but still the same person as Eugene PDD.

As I work with it more I can add feedback.

Our map is:

https://eugene-pwe.maps.arcgis.com/apps/StoryMapCrowdsource/index.html?appid=0950961f207b4b5b892cf80... 

[StephenSylvia]

Thanks for this feedback. I'll add these to our enhancement list to see if there is a good way to resolve these issues.

[SarahZaleski1]

Hello,

I have another suggested fix/update. The program loads slow on people's phones. Also, the photo upload seems to get stuck.  This happens when the photo is touched and it wants to crop the image, then it gets stuck on re-sizing.  This photo upload also takes a long time.

Maybe the photo cropping is not necessary in the photo upload, people can crop the images in their phone programs.

Thanks!

Sarah

[StephenSylvia]

Thanks for your feedback. We have noticed others having issues with the photo cropping and are planning to remove that in the next release. For the photo upload, do you mean the time between you choose the photo to the time it appears in the form or do you mean when you click the save to submit a new contribution?

[SarahZaleski1]

The time when you choose to upload a photo and it appears.

[StephenSylvia]

The new image loader that is coming in the next release should speed up the load time. In my most recent test, it seemed about 30-50% faster on my phone. Beyond just loading the photo in the browser, we are also resizing and resampling all the photos before we upload them to make sure they upload quickly when you click save even on slower internet connections. This also insures that viewer of the app will also experience faster loading. We will try to also optimize this in future releases.