Story Map Filter items by group

[shafitrumboo]

I have use case where I have create a story map.

1. Story map contains various items and every item contains location, photo, video, text information (Like article) and group (We have pre-defined groups and these groups will be displayed in User interface With icons or tabbed  so that user can select the group and map will display only those items related to that group).
2. Once user select the item it will display text information video and photo subjected to its availability.

What is the ideal way to do it. In my opinion

1. I will create one point featureclass that contains fields about group, photo, video and content.
2. I want to extend already available story maps from ArcGIS. By doing this if there is any update in application from ESRI side it will not affect my code and I will be able to use the new features easily
3. I don’t want to jump in to the code and change everything.

Please provide your input and give me some lead

[GregoryL_Azou]

Hi,

Extending a StoryMaps to better your fit your needs is absolutely possible. We release the source code of all of our templates and the application are quite stable so upgrading to new release should be pretty straightforward.

Is there one specific template you are thinking about?

From list of the StoryMaps application you will find a link to the GitHub repositiory of every template.

Most of our templates could apply, to name a few Map Tour and Map Journal, Map Series‌, Shortlist.

Map Tour and Map Journal would certainly best fits your need, they have extensive documentation about using a custom data source and are quite popular. They are relying on a layer to drive the story. Main difference is that Map Tour has an interactive builder that makes it easy to create the story.

Map Journal and Map Series don't rely on a layer to drive the story, the story configuration is defined as a JSON in the web mapping application. It's also possible to generate it or modify the application to use a layer but there is less tool to manage those data and it's not documented yet.

[shafitrumboo]

Hi Gregory L'Azou‌

Thanks for your response

I think Map Tour is more likely fits my requirement but I wonder about

1. How I can put the filter like we have in tabbed story map or Zoo Babies | An Esri Story Map

2. My text content is more it is like and 1 or 2 page article

[GregoryL_Azou]

Hi,

If you have long text and want a tab experience your best option is indeed probably Map Series.

StoryMaps apps template are opensource, you can extend them if they don't do exactly what you need. That's what we did for that zoo babies application, it's a customization that we also distribute on GitHub but without any support.

[shafitrumboo]

Hi,

But the customization is actually re-writing whole code again as this is very evident from Zoo babies source code.

Anyway If I customize say Maptour can I still take leverage from interactive builder that makes it easy to create the story.

[GregoryL_Azou]

Hi,

Yes the builder are integrated into the template.

You are free to make sure it works when you make modification to the template or just ignore it and use the one from ArcGIS Online to build your story.