Police Briefings with ArcGIS Insights and ArcGIS StoryMaps

How police departments can embed ArcGIS Insights into ArcGIS StoryMaps to highlight crime analysis work in police briefings...

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 Insights for ArcGIS  is an analytical workbench to use when you need to do crime analytics, but sometimes just doing the analysis isn’t enough. Briefing leadership, peers, and the general public is often required, and one of the best ways to share your results is through  StoryMaps . 

In order to view your analysis from Insights in a StoryMap, you will need to share your Insights page. Shared pages can be viewed by members of your organization or the public, even if the viewer does not have an Insights license. The data on a shared page cannot be updated or analyzed, but the viewer can interact with cards, including making selections, zooming and panning on a map, and flipping the cards to view statistics.

Before you share your page you should consider some of the following edits:

  • Rename the cards with descriptive titles.
  • Resize the cards so they fit on your page.
  • Change the layer style so that the symbols help tell your story.
  • Write a description of the back of each card explaining the analysis or data being displayed.
  •  Share your data  or get the data owner to share the data. If the data on the page is not shared then it may not appear in the Story Map for all users.

Once your cards have been organized the way you want them, go to your Page options menu and click Share Page.

The Share Page window opens and you can enter a Title, Description, Tags, and Share with options. You must share your page with Everyone if you plan to make it public or create the StoryMap in ArcGIS Online. If your StoryMap is staying within your organization then you can share the page with just your organization. Click Share to share your page.

When your page is shared, the window will display three new options: View your shared page, Access your page item, and Embed. You are going to use the <iframe> from Embed to display your page in a StoryMap.

An <iframe> is used to embed your shared Insights page in your StoryMap as a web page.

When you add new content to a StoryMap you will have the option to embed web content. Copy the <iframe> from your shared page and paste it under Embed code. Click Configure to change the position or size of the embedded page, then click Save. Your Insights page will now be embedded into your Story Map.

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