Coauthor content
You can collaborate when creating content with ArcGIS StoryMaps. Collaboration is managed through groups and can involve members of your organization or other organizations with which you have an established collaboration relationship.
Collaboration workflows for ArcGIS StoryMaps follow the actions allowed by standard roles and permissions in ArcGIS:
Administrators can edit, duplicate, publish, unpublish, update item sharing, and delete items owned by other organization members.
Members of groups with update capabilities can edit, duplicate, and publish changes to others' items in the group, but they cannot unpublish, update item sharing, or delete them.
For more information, see User types, roles, and privileges.
Warning:
If you are editing an ArcGIS StoryMaps item at the same time as someone else, a notification will appear and display their name and how long ago their last change was made. If you see this, you should usually click Exit builder to avoid losing any work. If you are sure your change should take priority, you can click Overwrite to continue editing; however, this may result in the other author's most recent changes being lost.
If you leave an ArcGIS StoryMaps builder open for a long time, you may receive a similar message when you come back later and try to make a change. In this case, click Exit builder so as to not overwrite the latest version of the content with the older one still active in your builder session. Once you close the builder, you can immediately reopen the item for editing. This ensures you are working with the latest version.
Collaborate within your organization
Use the following steps to allow other members of your organization to edit an ArcGIS StoryMaps item:
Have an administrator create a shared update group and add you and your coauthors as members of the group.
Note:
The administrator must select All items in the What items in the group can its members update settings to give all group members permission to collaborate on items shared to the group.
Publish the ArcGIS StoryMaps item and share it with a group with update capabilities.
Note:
Groups with update capabilities are denoted by an Edits enabled tag.
All members of the group may now make edits to your ArcGIS StoryMaps items and related content items. They can find these items on the My Groups or My Organization tab, or you can share the item link with them. When a collaborator views the item, an Edit button, which can be used to open the builder, is displayed in the header menu.
Warning:
Related content items—such as web maps, web scenes, layers, and themes—are also shared to the group with update capabilities. If you do not want the group members to have permission to edit the related content items, manage their permissions separately using a different group.
Collaborate with other organizations
To collaborate with members of another organization, an administrator must establish a collaboration relationship with that organization. Once that is done, you can create groups that include members of the other organization and use the same steps outlined above to manage editing privileges on your ArcGIS StoryMaps items and related content.
See Understand collaborations.
Editing ArcGIS StoryMaps items is supported with collaboration when using ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise. For more information on which versions of ArcGIS Enterprise are supported, see ArcGIS StoryMaps on ArcGIS Enterprise feature comparison