Capture slides

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:

1. Verify you are signed in to your account and open Scene Viewer.
2. On the Designer toolbar, click Slide Manager to open the Slide Manager pane.
3. Configure the scene.
4. Click + Capture slide.

   To capture the legend in the slide, open the legend in the scene and click + Capture slide. The Capture legend icon appears indicating the legend 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.

5. Click the slide title to rename it.

   The title is also reflected in the slide thumbnail at the bottom of the scene.

6. 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:

1. Drag the slide up or down to reorder the slides.
2. Click the slide name to rename the slide.
3. 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.

   1. Click Options.
   2. 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.

4. Click Options for the following additional options:

Option	Description
Presentation style	Caption Displays the slide title and description in the upper part of scene and slightly fades the scene around the text. Cover Displays the slide title and description in the center of the scene and slightly fades the scene around the text. No caption No slide title or description displays in the scene.
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 and Hide in presentation	You can hide a slide in the slide thumbnails of a scene while still keeping it in the Slide Manager . Hidden slides are not displayed in embedded scenes or when opening the scene on a mobile device.
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. To capture the legend in the slide, open the legend in the scene and click Recapture slide. The Capture legend icon displays. To remove the legend in the slide, close the legend and click Recapture slide. The Capture legend icon is removed. If the legend is open, the slide captures the legend; otherwise the legend is not captured.
Duplicate slide	Duplicate the slide.
Remove legend	Remove the legend in the slide. The Capture legend icon is removed.
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.