Creating a Backbone Activity
Navigate to the Story Map you want to create the activity in.
Go to the Map → Activity tab.
Click the “Add Backbone Activity” button on the Activity Map or “Create a Backbone Activity“ from the Story Map Options menu
A pop-up will appear. Enter a description for the backbone activity.
Activities created previously with similar descriptions will be loaded and displayed in the drop-down. These can used again in the current Story Map.
Click the “ADD“ button in the bottom right.
Creating a Skeleton Activity
Navigate to the Story Map you want to create the activity in.
Go to the Map → Activity tab.
Click the “Add Skeleton Activity” button under the desired parent backbone Activity or “Add sub-activity“ from the Backbone Activity Options menu.
A pop-up will appear. Enter a description for the backbone activity.
Activities created previously with similar descriptions will be loaded and displayed in the drop-down. These can used again in the current Story Map.
Click the “ADD“ button in the bottom right.
Prefilling informtion
Within the pop to create any Activity, there is a “Expand additional fields“ icon. Clicking this icon will expand additional fields to be prefilled and added to the Activity on creation.
