The geocoder configuration is not respected if anonymous access has been disabled

[ghost]

Please make the geocoder configurable like they do in Web AppBuilder so we can use our own geocoding service. Thanks.

[glazou]

We introduced with last release an optional geocoder configuration in the app/config.js file that should be identical to what WebAppBuilder is offering. Note that if you have configured custom geocoder in your Organization settings, those will be used.

See https://github.com/Esri/map-series-storytelling-template-js/blob/master/src/app/config.js#L473

[ghost]

We are not hosting the code, so changing JS file is not an option. We do have configured our custom geocoder in our org account settings ( thecityofcalgary.maps.arcgis.com) but the story map is not picking it up, and still using ESRI geocoder. See the attached screenshot.

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:09 AM, glazou [email protected] wrote:

We introduced with last release an optional geocoder configuration in the app/config.js file that should be identical to what WebAppBuilder is offering. Note that if you have configured custom geocoder in your Organization settings, those will be used.

See https://github.com/Esri/map-series-storytelling-template-js/blob/master/src/app/config.js#L473

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/Esri/map-series-storytelling-template-js/issues/19#issuecomment-195481943 .

[glazou]

Ok sorry, I found the issue. It appear that if your ArcGIS Online Organization has disabledanonymous access, the geocoder configuration defined is not applied properly. This is the setting:

Until we fix this with our next release planned for June 13th, you can either enable that setting or use the downloadable version and configure it manually.

I changed the title of your issue to reflect the issue and will update you here once fixed.

[ghost]

Thanks for looking into this. We don't want to allow public access of the site for various reasons. Hopefully you guys can fix this soon. My recommendation is to add a simple interface to allow user to set custom geocoder inside story map (cloud hosted), rather than getting it from AGOL as many orgs tend to have more than one custom geocoder for various purpose. We might create a custom geocoder just for this story map to make user search more relative.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:19 AM, glazou [email protected] wrote:

Ok sorry, I found the issue. It appear that if your ArcGIS Online Organization has disabledanonymous access, the geocoder configuration defined is not applied properly. This is the setting:

[image: image] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/994078/13751051/8940f216-e9c5-11e5-82bc-e9745cbd516d.png

Until we fix this with our next release planned for June 13th, you can either enable that setting or use the downloadable version and configure it manually.

I changed the title of your issue to reflect the issue and will update you here once fixed.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/Esri/map-series-storytelling-template-js/issues/19#issuecomment-196391820 .

[glazou]

Thanks, I did not realize this requirements. I would like to avoid redeveloping a full UI to configure geocoder in the builder but I can see a more limited UI just to select which of the geocoder configured in the Organization should be available in the story with checkbox. How does that sound?

[ghost]

That sounds good too. Thanks.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:26 PM, glazou [email protected] wrote:

Thanks, I did not realize this requirements. I would like to avoid redeveloping a full UI to configure geocoder in the builder but I can see a more limited UI just to select which of the geocoder configured in the Organization should be available in the story with checkbox. How does that sound?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/Esri/map-series-storytelling-template-js/issues/19#issuecomment-196455468 .

[ghost]

Do you have any update on this ? Thanks.

[oevans]

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