Gidday Grant,
Thanks very much for the feedback. Very much appreciated.
I’d love to know more about how you are utilising this feature. Looks like you have been with Appsheet for quite some time.
I am specifically interested to explore: .
- Printing the image with the pins marked up on the image. I explored the Printing side with Aleksi and Lavent (Able3) for a good few weeks and we couldn’t find a solution anywhere that would integrate etc
- Changing the shape of the pins. eg develop an electrical plan with trade specific location icon / pins etc I haven’t fully investigated the changing pin icon much to be honest, but wondering if you’ve managed to do this as a super user.
I am a non IT person and still on my Learners plates, but have a few apps in the market.
Great meeting you.
Cheers
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Yes, we have developed a pretty decent workaround to get the images with the pins however you need them. It’s a lot of fuss though. We basically ensure the image is public, dynamically create HTML for the image and pins and then pass it to an html to image converter and bring it back to the app. Very effective, but quite complex. We were doing this to include in stock appsheet template reports. Further, Appsheet is still working diligently to develop a better linktofilteredview situation. However, that wouldn’t let you put trade specific markers.
If you would like to take this offline we could dig into it a bit more.
Grant_Stead:
Yes, we have developed a pretty decent workaround to get the images with the pins however you need them.
With this you will get an image with pins, don’t you? That’s for printing only, or do you use it also in the App? As I remember, the Icons are limited to Font Awesome.
Yes, we create an image for use in the app… We load the HTML pass it to the service, then drop the image back in. Then that image can be used in card views, reports, etc… It’s honestly more work than it’s worth…
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Read through the feed and couldn’t find a solution… just figured I’d check… has anyone been able to figure out a good way to display the coordinates on a custom map for reporting purposes in a reasonable way?
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Hi,
Is it possible to use SNAPSHOT() or any other way to capture the map with pins?
Hi @Roshan yes this is possible.
[SNAPSHOT() your data BETA](https://community.appsheet.com/t/snapshot-your-data-beta/16399) Announcements
If you didn’t get a chance to read our recent Feature Friday, here’s an exciting new addition to formulas. What it is: SNAPSHOT() is an addition to workflows that allows you to take static images of charts, graphs or custom maps and add them to either PDF attachments or emails sent from your application’s workflow. If you have an application that incorporates daily inspection reports of a worksite or you have large amounts of data displayed in a dashboard that you would like to send to your exe…
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Thanks for your reply @Fabian.
I’m having trouble getting the correct formula in the attachment template in my workflow.
The formula for the Action that points to the view I want to capture is CONCATENATE(“#page=map&table=Firerating%20APP&mapcolumn=Point%20Location%20%28XY%29&row=”, ENCODEURL([_THISROW]))
However, I’ve tried to use SNAPSHOT(LINKTOVIEW(“CONCATENATE(”#page=map&table=Firerating%20APP&mapcolumn=Point%20Location%20%28XY%29&row=“, ENCODEURL([_THISROW]))”))
But it does not work. I am trying to snapshot a static background image with all the pins based on the row.
Hi @Roshan since you are using a workflow you can simply use this expression in your attachment template:
<<SNAPSHOT(LINKTOVIEW("YourMapView"))>>
When you run the workflow on a row, it will create an attachment off of this row.
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Thank you.
I’ve created a map view but i get all the point locations on a google map view not on the background image. Also is there any way to filter the points showing only the points attaced to that image.
This is the setting in my app.
How does your attachment template look like? Could you copy it here?
Hi @Fabian thanks for your help on this!
I managed to get it to work using the following formula:
<<SNAPSHOT(CONCATENATE(“#view=Map&row=”, ENCODEURL([_THISROW])))>>
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Roshan:
CONCATENATE(“#view=Map&row=”, ENCODEURL([_THISROW]))
This part is the same as LINKTOROW([_THISROW],"Map")
SNAPSHOT() is working only for LINKTOVIEW.
That’s why your expression does not work in my testing.
I receive a blank image.
I’m happy if it works for you
If not, you should try
<<SNAPSHOT(LINKTOVIEW("YourMapView"))>>
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@Peter can you share what a link should look like for Background image? I am using Google Drive, and my link only gives me a blank screen?
Hi Michael, the link to the background image must be directly to the hosted image file (links that end in the image file extension like .jpg, .png). I don’t think this is natively supported in Drive, but you may find workarounds like this one: Google Drive Direct Link Generator
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So, I used the Google Drive Direct Link Generator and it still if giving me a blank image. This is what I am putting in and what I am getting:
I’d recommend using a different image hosting service that provides a direct link to the file - Drive is not great for this.
Which other service do you recommend? I tried Dropbox and got the same issue.
Make sure your file’s visibility in Google Drive is set to “Anyone with the link”.
You can also use this tool to create an export link in a different way.
Roshan:
Also is there any way to filter the points showing only the points attaced to that image.
Hi Roshan, did you ever figure out how to only show the points attached to a related map image? And I mean not in the report or email, but inside the App, in a view?
I am testing and I also have the issue that I have 5 plots (Parent table) with about 10 to 20 trees on each (Child table) but I can’t figure out how to create a view that (only) shows the trees for 1 particular plot and does so from the Parent Detail View.
Here is the Detail view from 1 tree (Child table). If I zoom out, I see the entire plot with all trees. I don’t know why the View is called “google-map”.
Here is the same plot from the Parent Detail view. It’s empty.
Any advise would be great.
Thank you!
