Release V1.8.1 · Esri/storymap-journal

This release contains three major new features, fixes for the viewer and builder and deprecate three feature that are replaced with new workflow.

New features:

Print. Through the share dialog in viewer, you can access a printable version of your story. As most browser now supports exporting a page as PDF, it is a great way to have a copy of your story to use offline or for backup
New text editor action that allows to create a link that navigate to a different section. This was previously doable through custom HTML within the editor HTML view, such links are now deprecated. If you have used such links, they will be automatically converted to this new model. This gives you easier management of your story, for example, if you want to move/delete section, the link will be updated to target the new location of the section
Added a white theme for Floating Panel Layout

Three features have been deprecated:

Sharing links at the bottom of each section for the Side Panel Layout. Existing stories will continue to display those links but a warning recommending to disable that option will be displayed in builder. This option is not available anymore for new stories using Side Panel Layout but is still available for Floating Panel. Using this option with Side Panel was known to be an issue if you have images in the panel as those images can takes time to load, the panel may be moving when you use a link to a section, thus creating inconsistent display for the user. Floating Panel don't have that issue as only one section is displayed at the same time. Issue #61.
Importing images from Facebook. Existing stories will continue to work but it's not possible to add new images from Facebook. More details on the StoryMaps FAQ
Using JavaScript in editor source view. The only documented use for this was to create a link to navigate to another section for which a UI has been implemented. Existing events will stop working when the sections are edited in builder

Fixes:

Specific sequence of characters in title makes browser crash #68
Main stage action: map markers do not disappear unless BACK button is clicked
Main stage action: locate an address - checkbox "user will see a map marker" can't be unchecked
Main stage action: back button disappears if two map actions are clicked in a row
Main stage action: back button does not return to original media when clicking multiple actions in a row
Main Stage colors "leak" through maps with transparent basemap
Formatting cannot be applied to non-English characters in the description panel
Main Stage popup configuration open on the popup at feature centroid instead of where author clicked #52
Allow to create a dropdown through text editor HTML mode

Technical changes:

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