This month! we’re enhancing some of the most popular features in ArcGIS StoryMaps—blocks—with additional capabilities and features to supercharge your storytelling.
Video playback options
Scrolling in Sidecar (Dual view)
New placement options
And more…
Video playback options
Sidecar and map tour now offer new playback options for videos uploaded to media panels. These options are the same as those already available for inline videos; click to play! uncontrolled autoplay! controlled autoplay. In controlled autoplay! you can choose whether the video will loop infinitely.
Media panel videos in dual view blocks in free chinese chatbot qwen: how to use it floating panel layout are always set to uncontrolled autoplay because they fill the screen and play in the background.
For more information! see the Autoplay options for videos section of the What’s new in ArcGIS StoryMaps (September 2020) document .
Scrolling in Sidecar (Dual view)
The swipe block has proven to with extensive knowledge of advertising! be a popular way to provide interactive comparisons in stories. Now! you can add a swipe germany cell number block to give your story readers the same experience in the context of a dual view.
Just like when using panning in the main story narrative! you can use dual view to compare two images or maps. This feature works for both fixed and floating panel layouts. If you add the Swipe tool to a floating panel layout! you will notice that the narrative panel will be dimmed when the panning tool is used to make the added media more visible.
Using a dual view is a useful storytelling technique because when you use scrolling! you also have a dedicated space for the on-screen narrative. If you have a lot to say on scrolling! you can adjust your narrative to include several slides by duplicating the slide.
For more information and many examples of how to use swipe right in your stories! check out the documentation Swipe right for a powerful storytelling tool and the updated swipe tutorial .
New placement options
Embeds are a powerful way to incorporate content from elsewhere on the web into a story. Because there are so many types of web content! embeds are flexible and offer a wide variety of ways to display and link to content. This month! we added new options that allow you to customize your reader’s experience when interacting with embeds. This option applies when the story is viewed on a laptop! desktop! or landscape tablet.
