V1.7.3

New Features

• The colors and logo from your organization's Shared Theme, if they have been configured by an administrator, are applied to all new stories and are available to apply to any existing stories in Settings > Theme (colors) and Settings > Header (logo).
• You can enable readers to search for features in map layers or search for places using your organization's geocoders.

Fixes

• BUG-000102323: editing story in a different browser breaks uploaded logo
• BUG-000101581: Unnecessary calls to geocoding services
• BUG-000084507: Cannot save custom pop-up configuration on hosted tiled services
• <script> tags are now properly stripped from section titles
• #19: The geocoder configuration is not respected if anonymous access has been disabled. See this blog post on our developers corner.

Technical Changes

• Updated ArcGIS API for JavaScript to V3.20

V1.6.0

This release contains one major new feature.

New feature:

• Image Upload. Authors can upload images directly from their computer to be used in the app as a mainstage image, an image in a panel, or a logo.

Technical changes:

• Updated ArcGIS API for JavaScript to v3.19
• Added lodash in production app, and FontAwesome for builder

V1.5.2

This is a minor bug fixes release that address the following issues:

• Formatting cannot be applied to non-English characters in the description panel
• Importing images from Facebook has been deprecated. Existing stories will continue to work but it's not possible to add new images from Facebook. More details on the StoryMaps FAQ
• Main Stage colors "leak" through maps with transparent basemap
• Save button is enabled but header title is empty
• When creating story by sharing webmap, the title is not prepopulated

Technical changes:

• Updated ArcGIS API for JavaScript to V3.18
• Removed trailing spaces in source code

V1.5.1

This is a minor bug fixes release that fix the following issue:

• The button to share the story on Facebook display an error message

Technical changes:

• Updated ArcGIS API for JavaScript to V3.17

V1.5.0

This release contains two major new features plus many small enhancements and fixes for both the viewer and builder.

Major new features:

• Added autoplay mode. Autoplay mode is useful if you want to show a story map on a display monitor such as a kiosk in a visitor center, an exhibit, or in an operations center. In autoplay mode the story advances automatically creating a visually interesting and changing display.
• Improved how the story looks when shared on social media. The story will now use the application item's thumbnail, title, and summary. Builder will now warn the author when item title is not identical to the story title (if the story is public). See Story Maps website FAQ for more details.

Viewer enhancements:

• Improved the visual look and feel of map's legend by adjusting spacing between elements
• Improved the look and feel of map's popup by making them match closer the style of ArcGIS Map Viewer
• Improved keyboard navigation when a story is embedded in another website by focusing out of the story after the last element
• When viewing a story that you can edit, the edit and error diagnosis buttons can now be dismissed
• Improved the error message when the story can not be viewed at user's resolution

Downloadable version:

• Added configuration for utility services like Geocoder in app/config.js (#7)
• Added support for configuring proxy rules in app/config.js
• Added support for using oAuth with Portal for ArcGIS
• Improved the error message when the application ID is not configured
• Added support to easily allow viewing of stories created by any member of an organization through the appid URL parameter

Builder enhancements:

• Modified web map selector results order to be sorted chronologically (latest maps appear first)
• Enabled authors to preview a story before it is shared

Viewer fixes:

• Fixed an issue with bulleted layout where the story title would be partially cropped when using keyboard navigation

Builder fixes:

• Fixed an issue with map editor where the save button would never get enabled despite pending changes
• Fixed an issue where the share dialog would allow user to share a story at a level he was not authorized
• Fixed an issue where the share dialog was not reporting appropriate sharing level for private stories that are shared with a group

Technical changes:

• Updated ArcGIS API for JavaScript to V3.16

V1.4.1

Fix an issue with web scene not loading properly when specifying a slide index.

V1.4.0

This release introduces two major enhancements in the Story Map authoring experience:

• Create and edit web maps as you build your story using an integrated version of map viewer
• Troubleshoot and fix issues as you build your story using an integrated version of My Stories ; your story are also checked in viewer mode

Viewer enhancements:

• Improved the UI of the accordion panel for entry numbers with two digits
• Improved description readability by lowering the panel transparency
• Changed the info button on the mobile view to make it more visible
• Images in section description that have been manually dimensioned will now keep their aspect ratio at all display sizes
• Visual improvement to the share dialog such as a copy icon for the iframe tag
• Added support for "*" as authorizedOwner in index.html, which allows use of any appid through the URL
• Switched the favicon to a local image instead of an image hosted in esri.com

Builder enhancements:

• Prevented adding invalid image in Main Stage or inline by pre-checking the image
• Changed the default position of videos and web pages and improved naming of positioning options
• When creating a story from My Content in ArcGIS Online, the story title is pre-populated with the item title

Viewer fixes:

• Fixed issue #10 preventing webpages included in Main Stage from being scrolled on iOS
• Fixed an issue preventing the story form opening if a media URL contained an invalid character
• Fixed an issue on iOS where the story would not open when embedded in a full page frame
• Fixed an issue in mobile view preventing the legend from being displayed in some configurations of tab and bullet layouts
• Fixed an issue in mobile view preventing the info panel from scrolling back to the top after navigating to a new section
• Fixed an issue in mobile view with large custom logos not displaying properly in the menu
• Fixed an issue with popup chart tooltips where the text would not fit inside the tooltip

Builder fixes:

• Fixed an issue preventing embedding of videos from Esri Video using the provided iframe tag

Technical changes:

• Updated ArcGIS API for JavaScript to V3.15
• Updated Bootstrap to V3.3.5

V1.3.0

This release fix a major issue with the latest version of Chrome, we strongly recommend you update any custom deployment of Map Series. The issue is happening with Chrome V45 and stories using the Tab or Bullet layout. Map Series using the Accordion layout or the V1.2.x version are not affected. Chrome V46 (current beta channel) and Chrome V47 (current dev channel) are not affected by the issue. This means that when the next version of Chrome is deployed this issue won't happen anymore. Chrome V46 may be released at the end of September so waiting for the update may be an option. When affected the application looks broken, the map only use half the space, the description panel is very small and their is large empty space on one side.

Besides that, this is a minor bug fixes release with couple of enhancements.

Viewer enhancements:

• Added a loading indicator while Main Stage video, web page and images are loading
• Added the regular underline to web page links in the description panel
• Translated sharing buttons tooltip

Builder enhancements:

• Enabled spell check on all text inputs. The spell check is supported on most browser including Internet Explorer 10, quality varies depending on browser
• Various improvement to the web map picker component: search field clear icon, look and feel of pager and thumbnails

Viewer fixes:

• Changed the bullet layout entry tooltip background to fully opaque to make it easier to read
• Fixed an issue with the position of centered media on the Main Stage. Depending on the state of the description panel for an entry and for the previously viewed entry, the media could be slightly offset to the right
• Fixed the behavior of the web page 'unload when reader navigates away' feature to accommodate web page containing audio/video content auto playing
• Fixed the bullet layout overflow dropdown list icon placement
• Prevented the iframe default border to appear when inserting web page in description using the full iframe option (by URL was not affected)

Builder fixes:

• Fixed an issue with text editor on Safari where inserting a new blank line at the end of the text made the cursor to get back to the beginning of the text
• Fixed an issue preventing to add link to web page using HTTPS or another protocol than HTTP
• Fixed an issue preventing popup configuration to be saved for ArcGIS Server map service layers
• Fixed an issue preventing the legend 'Open by default' setting to persist after editing an entry (that setting was always set to the default value)
• Improved the web page media dialog by making the configuration step more accessible
• Fixed an issue preventing wide images to fit the builder description editor properly on Firefox (viewer was not impacted)
• Removed the text editor right click > paste menu

Technical changes:

• Updated CKEditor to V4.5.3

V1.2.2

Fix an issue where a map could slightly pan when navigating between entries if the entries were configured to not synchronize map extent.

V1.2.1

Fix an issue preventing the application to open in Internet Explorer when using Portal for ArcGIS.