Slides show different views of your scene. The slides can have different basemaps, layer visibility, daylight settings, and extents. You can use them in scenes you share with others 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.
What are states?
Slides store the state of the scene. A state is the camera position (or extent of your scene), the daylight settings, the selected basemap, and the status of the visibility checks in the Layers menu. If you navigate to a different view in your scene or change layer visibility, you can click this slide to return your scene to the 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 park symbols as green spheres and change the park symbols to orange cubes, when you click on the Parks slide, your parks will be orange cubes, rather than the green spheres you originally saved in the state. Some examples of scene visualizations not stored in slides are layer symbology, ground and background color, and underground navigation.
Capture a slide
Capture a slide of your scene so you can return to it or share it with others.
- Verify you are signed in to the portal and open Scene Viewer.
- On the Designer toolbar, click Slides
to open the Slides pane. - Click Capture slide
.A new slide with a thumbnail of the view is added in and also a thumbnail is generated at the bottom of the scene.
- Click the slide name to highlight it.
- Enter a new name. Scene Viewer
The name is also reflected in the slide at the bottom of the scene
- On the Designer toolbar, click Save
to save the slides to the scene.
Modify a slide
Update your slide with new layer configurations, content, and layer visibility. You can change your extent, add or remove content, or give your layers a new configuration. You can modify your slides with the following options:
Update Slide | Click the to reset the slide to reflect the current scene state. |
Remove Slide | Click the to delete the slide. |
Slides options | Click to display list of slide options:
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