Is there any ways to duplicate places created in Story Map Shortlist?

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09-28-2016 10:41 AM
AdamZulkifli
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Hi all!

I have created some places in the Story Map Shortlist and would like to duplicate/copy these for the new tabs. I know that we can create a new tab and set the location referring to the tab with existing places. But how can I just duplicate/copy the existing labels so that it can be accurately marked on the map?

Thanks in advance!

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RupertEssinger
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Hi Adam

Could you perhaps clarify what you'd like to do.

If you want to repeat the same place in different tabs while just defining that place once then that isn't supported in Story Map Shortlist . If you want to repeat the same places in different tabs - for example some authors have added an "All' tab to their Shortlist that contains all of the places in the other tabs combined - you have to duplicate those places in your Shortlist manually (for example, add them again or duplicate those records in your source dataset. We've held off from making the 'All' tab case easier to define because it can lead to quite a busy looking map, and the large number of places 'All' tabs contain may slow things down. Plus,its the aim of Shortlist to let you and your readers divide and conquer a large number of places via tabs for different categories.

If you want to define a location such as an shopping center, and then feature a different aspect of that location in more than one tab, such as showing that in a Food tab and a Shopping tab and an Attractions tab, you can do that by defining three places and giving each one that same location: there's no concept of the same Shortlist place being shown in more than one tab with different content per tab.

Hope that helps


Rupert

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RupertEssinger
Frequent Contributor

Hi Adam

Could you perhaps clarify what you'd like to do.

If you want to repeat the same place in different tabs while just defining that place once then that isn't supported in Story Map Shortlist . If you want to repeat the same places in different tabs - for example some authors have added an "All' tab to their Shortlist that contains all of the places in the other tabs combined - you have to duplicate those places in your Shortlist manually (for example, add them again or duplicate those records in your source dataset. We've held off from making the 'All' tab case easier to define because it can lead to quite a busy looking map, and the large number of places 'All' tabs contain may slow things down. Plus,its the aim of Shortlist to let you and your readers divide and conquer a large number of places via tabs for different categories.

If you want to define a location such as an shopping center, and then feature a different aspect of that location in more than one tab, such as showing that in a Food tab and a Shopping tab and an Attractions tab, you can do that by defining three places and giving each one that same location: there's no concept of the same Shortlist place being shown in more than one tab with different content per tab.

Hope that helps


Rupert

AdamZulkifli
New Contributor

Thanks a lot Rupert!

Adam

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