Slides show different views of a scene. The slides can have different basemaps, layer visibility, daylight settings, weather effects, and extents. You can use them in scenes you share to tell an interactive story with the information in your scene. You can also use them as a starting point when you reopen the scene.
States
Slides are like bookmarks and store the state of the scene. They save configurations in the scene such as the camera view (or extent of your scene), daylight settings, selected basemap, or the layer visibility. If you navigate to a different view in your scene or change the layer visibility, you can click a slide to return the scene state you previously saved in the slide.
Note:
Slides store your scene state and save your configured content. If you change your layer configuration, the slide will update and save the new layer configurations automatically. For example, if you create a Parks slide with green sphere for park symbols and change the park symbols to orange cubes, when you click the Parks slide the next time, the parks symbology will have changed to the orange cubes, rather than the green spheres you originally saved in the slide. You would need to update the slide thumbnail to capture the new park symbology.
Some examples of scene visualizations that are not stored in slides are layer symbology, ground and background color, and underground navigation.
Capture a slide
To capture a slide, do the following:
- Verify you are signed in to your account and open Scene Viewer.
- On the Designer toolbar, click Slide Manager
to open the Slide Manager pane.
- Configure the scene.
- Click + Capture slide.
Optionally, do any of the following:
- To capture the legend in the slide, display the legend in the scene using Layers
and click + Capture slide.
- To capture a pop-up in the slide, click a feature in the scene to display the pop-up and click + Capture slide.
See Supported layers for pop-ups in slides for more information.
- To capture a slice in the slide, create a slice in the scene using Scene tools
and click + Capture slide.
When the legend or a pop-up is captured in a slide, the Capture item icon
appears in the slide in Slide Manager
indicating the item will display in that slide.
A new slide with a thumbnail of the view is added and a thumbnail is generated at the bottom of the scene.
- To capture the legend in the slide, display the legend in the scene using Layers
- Click the slide title to rename it.
The title is also reflected in the slide thumbnail at the bottom of the scene.
- On the Designer toolbar, click Save
to save the slides in the scene.
Modify slides
Update slides by setting new layer configurations, adding or removing content, changing the extent, or changing the layer visibility, for example.
In Slide Manager , do any of the following:
- Drag the slide up or down to reorder the slides.
- Click the slide name to rename the slide.
- Click Add description
to add a description to the slide.
You can set how the title and description display in the scene using the Presentation style option for when a viewer clicks Present
and switches to the presentation mode.
- Click Options
.
- Under Presentation style, select one of the following:
- Caption
Displays the slide title and description in the upper side and slightly fades the scene around the text.
- Cover
Displays the slide title and description in the center and slightly fades the scene around the text.
- No caption
No slide title or description displays in the scene.
- Caption
- Click Options
- Click Options
for the following additional options:
Option | Description |
---|---|
Presentation style |
|
Move up | Moves the slide up one level and changes the order in the slide thumbnails at the bottom of the scene. |
Move down | Moves the slide down one level and changes the order in the slide thumbnails at the bottom of the scene. |
Show in presentation | You can hide a slide in the slide thumbnails of a scene while still keeping it in the Slide Manager |
Recapture slide | Reset the slide to reflect a change you made in the scene such as adding new content, changing the layer visibility, or adjusting the extent.
|
Duplicate slide | Duplicate the slide. |
Remove legend | Remove the legend or pop-up in the slide. The Capture item icon |
Remove slide | Remove the slide. |
Tip:
To share a scene URL that opens to a specific slide, add the #<slide-number> parameter to the URL.
Supported layers for pop-ups
The following layers are supported for capturing pop-ups in slides:
- Feature layer
- 3D object scene layer
- Building scene layer
- Point scene layer
- OGC Web Feature Service (WFS)
- CSV layer
- GeoJSON layer