I'm working on a wepbage where I have a Bing map, along with pushpins. When clicking on pushpins, I am supposed to show a tooltip with custom content - something which would ideally be pulled out from the database through ajax.
This custom content is likely to contain youtube video, some html, as well as some buttons and links with specific actions.
My question is what to use to implement this? I see two potential solutions:
Something like qTip or Fancybox: pros for this approach are that I am pretty familiar with either of these two, and that they can display virtually any content provided. Cons are that I may be having difficulties integrating the solution with the Bing maps (for example, when I move the map, I need to move the tooltip as well)
Infobox - as far as I know, regular part of Microsoft's api, well integrated with the maps. However, I have no idea how to fill Infobox with Ajax response. Moreover, I don't know how well Infobox can cope with rich html.
So, what to go for?
Thanks
There are a couple of options. The first option is to us the built in infoboxes in Bing Maps by setting the htmlContent. I have a blog post on how to do this here: http://rbrundritt.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/simple-custom-infoboxes-in-bing-maps-v7/
The second method is to use the custom infobox module I created here: http://bingmapsv7modules.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Custom%20Infobox%20Control
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I just need some links, where to begin. I am not really familiar with OSM, but I want to create little website with a world map, where visitors of my site can simply add places with a descriptopn. I don't know where to start. Are there any pre-coded templates for a CMS like Wordpress or just non-CMS templates?
Have a look at OpenLayers. There is a QuickStart Tutorial on how to add a map. If you want to add a Marker by a click on the map have a look at ClickHandlers (example can be seen here). What you would have to change is showing a field onClick, where the user can enter the description. What could be also from interest for you is the OpenLayers.Popup.
If the result should be stored, you have to save the description and marker position into a database, so you probably will need some server side implementation for your idea.
I am trying to use a sap.m.List Control in a application, however, I am struggling to find examples of how to implement this control in a JavaScript View. I am aware that the "Explored" app has code examples to implement the controls in XML views; However, I would like to know how to adapt those examples to HTML, JSON and JavaScript views. What an expert UI5 Developer does when he needs to adapt a control from a XML View to another type of view? Do we have any guidelines? Thanks in advance!
Regarding the guidelines you`ll find at least a quick introduction on js-views in the demokit documentation here.
I created a pretty simple example for the sap.m.List in javascript here although I am aware that it is not part of a view, but it should give you a first impression.
If you are looking for more js examples have a look here. For the older sap.ui.commons controls all samples are created with javascript.
I would like to use a javascript function link such as 'link:j-myJS-data' for drill down type charts. I have everything working great to drill down but cannot figure out how to incorporate the overlayButton through the configureLink when drilling down. At present, I can drill down but cannot go back. Can anyone provide a basic example of how I may go about this? Is it even possible?
I thought I could add my own "Back" button to hande this as one option. I do not want to use a jsonURL as there is a lot of data and many paramertes need to be passed resutling in a long links and a lot of extra data in the JSON.
Thanks in advance.
There are multiple options available to create a drill-down chart with FusionCharts XT. Here is a table which explains all of them, with each one's syntax.
The method that you've used is the JavaScript function link. Using this one, you won't get an overlay button to go back to the parent chart.
The overlay button is available only when a LinkedChart is created.
So there are 2 ways that you could go about:
You could change all your charts to use the LinkedCharts technique. Here is a blog post detailing how LinkedCharts can be created using PHP + MySQL. If you aren't using PHP, the general idea shown still applies to any server-side environment.
You could create a separate button sitting near the chart, and this button would re-create the parent chart for you.
The button (which we call "overlay-button") can be made automatically visible using LinkedCharts alone.
However the overlay-button can be internally invoked using the charts' private API. Since these APIs are private, it may change between implementations and may not work as desired under certain circumstances. I would not recommend you to use this. If you are still interested in knowing more on this API, put in a comment and I will update this post.
My problem is very similar to the one posted here:
http://www.utteraccess.com/forum/Plotting-Addresses-Maps-t1968130.html
except that thread never found any solutions. Basically, I'm working on an Access form that has a datasheet as a subform. Upon clicking a button on the main form I'm trying to make it so that a browser window opens up and, using the address columns from the spreadsheet data in the subform, plot all the address markers listed. I've looked up a lot of ways to attempt this but I've yet to find a way that seems to work.
I'm not even sure if it's possible to plot multiple markers on Google Maps, but according to research (and after trying it myself) it seems like it isn't, although I don't want to rule it out entirely because I'm still not 100% sure. However I know both Google Earth and batchgeo.com do allow this. I still want to try and do this on Google Maps, but if that doesn't work I want to try to do it using batchgeo.com and if that still doesn't work, then Google Earth (I don't want to make the user download external software if possible).
If it helps, from what I've read API's seem like a useful tool, though I'm not sure how to apply it to an Access form, it seems more like a way to embed to already existing websites.
I'd really appreciate if someone could help me figure out how to approach this problem!
Maybe this would help?
http://ramblings.mcpher.com/Home/excelquirks/getmaps/mapmarkers
It is Excel but should be translatable.
Here is another example, this time using Access:
http://www.utteraccess.com/forum/Google-Maps-Multiple-Mar-t1973499.html
...from what I've read API's seem like a useful tool, though I'm not
sure how to apply it to an Access form, it seems more like a way to
embed to already existing websites.
You're right. There's no way, that I'm aware of, to embed a Google Maps object in a form (like an ActiveX control). Microsoft MapPoint is a software product that lets you do Map integration by way of an ActiveX control (no need to use HTML and/or javascript).
What I usually do on a project like you're working on is I get my HTML page working the way I want it to, outside and independent of MS Access. You should be able to program and test the HTML file locally without having to use an actual web server. Just use something like NotePad++ or Sublime Text Editor 2 to write your HTML and Javascript and then open the file in your browser to see if it works. I'm quite sure you'll need to use Javascript in your HTML page to make this work. That's what the Google Maps API is all about.
After you have your webpage working, then you will have to go into Access and write code to create that web page on the fly with the address data for the current data set. You can just write it out to the Windows Temp folder and then open your browser control that that web page.
Julian Knight's answer links to more specifics on how to create the HTML page on the fly. It looks like gobble-de-gook, mostly because it is. Outputting HTML/Javascript/CSS from VBA is far less than optimal. This is why you troubleshoot it outside of Access, as much as you can.
I've generated the backend of my application, and am now just 'jazzing' the forms up (adding correct labels, validation rules etc).
One thing I'd like to do is add a map (Google) which updates the marker as an address is entered into the form, then allows the user to drag it to correct the lat/lng should it be a little off.
My question is, how can I customise the output of the form - I've read the docs (1.0,1.1,1.2 also) and it all seems very confusing. Customising forms not generated with the admin generator I know how to do using renderRow(); etc; but finding a way to add a little bit of HTML to the forms is making my eyes hurt! There's so much out of date stuff on the web regarding Symfony it's hard to know what to trust!
If anyone can point me in the right direction that'd be great.
Best Regards,
Rich
Maybe you can start by looking at this plugin : http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/sfEasyGMapPlugin .
For your question, customizing the forms can be done by creating your own widgets and using them as default widgets.
You may want to read this page : http://www.symfony-project.org/more-with-symfony/1_4/en/05-Custom-Widgets-and-Validators .