Maps, of course, communicate an incredible amount of information. But sometimes this can be a liability—each part of the map drawing as much attention as any other. Often you want the map reader to focus their attention to a specific area of the map; the rest of the map can remain for context, but just have a more subdued appearance.
Here is one way to do this in ArcGIS Pro.
There are many flavors of this trick that you can use to get just the sort of hey-look-over-here sort of effect you need. The most important thing is to consider what, and where, the map’s job is and design it in a way so that its audience will look right where they ought without effort. Plus it looks pretty cool, and that counts for a lot!
Happy spotlighting! John
This is great! How do I have these applications open directly to their own URLs and without the hub wrapper/banner? – Thanks
I added them as new items to AGO using friendly URLs. All good now.
Hi, can you explain how do you do that?
Hi! We tried to add a gallery of Storymaps (all created with the new story map builder) to our Hub Site and the “Explore” buttons will not launch the Storymap when we view the Hub page. Any tips or tricks?
Hi Rebecca!
Were you in edit mode when you tried clicking the Explore button? Try clicking View at the top right of your screen when editing the site. This will open your site in a new browser window, then try the button. If it’s still not working, please let me know and we can take a closer look!
Thanks,
Katie
I really wish there was a way to make the gallery cards all be the same size. I’m displaying 6 cards on my site and two cards are much larger, like in the last image of your post. But the thumbnails I created are not meant to be displayed in those dimensions, so they get cut off and distorted.
I had the same issue. I was able to trick it by adding a blank text box element to the side of the cards and change the size of the text box until your thumbnails display properly…I found that this works well for many other sections as well to resize other elements.
When a gallery has no content meeting display criteria, I’d like for the hub site to say so. Something like “No documents are available for review at this time.”
Hi,
I have created a survey using Collector for ArcGIS app. I was wondering how could I add/embed a link/path in ArcGIS Hub
so that our field staff can click that link which will take them directly to the Collector App.
Thanks
Hi Pankaj, you can add a button to your Hub site’s layout using the text card. Then, configure the button with a link to the appropriate collector item (ie https://collector.arcgis.app/?itemID=MapItemID). Similarly, if you happen to be using Survey123, you can embed a survey directly on a site or page using the Survey card.
Thanks! Katie
Just like Susan I want the aplications of the gallery open directly without the hub banner to the left side of the screen. How can I do that? Thanks
In the general settings of the Hub, in the “interactions” section, uncheck the “embedded apps” option. Hope this helps (sorry for the bad english – Google Translate).