Google maps with directions.

[tmenasco]

I created this "online service" years ago and just realized that no one had ever posted one with directions.

This "online service" uses a hard coded "office" address as the "starting point" and uses the address of the client as the "destination".

Just change our address, 100 East 15th Street, Edmond, OK, 73013, to your office's address.

If you have multiple locations, just create one for each as the "starting point" and name them accordingly.

[Support Team]

Re: Google maps with directions.

Another way to do a similar thing is instead of hard coding the office address, to use the Employee Account address of the currently logged in User.

Hope it helps.

[maxtowns]

Re: Google maps with directions.

Am I missing something or the Template is not here?

[Support Team]

Re: Google maps with directions.

You are correct, the attachment is missing.. perhaps the original poster removed it or forgot to upload at the time. There are some examples using maps on our wiki here.

You could use something like this which takes the Employee Account address of the currently logged in User in RangerMSP as the starting point for the route and the customer address as the destination

saddr=<CMTLBLDATA_FLDGENCURUSER_FLDCRDADDRESS1>,<C MTLBLDATA_FLDGENCURUSER_FLDCRDCITY>, <CMTLBLDATA_FLDGENCURUSER_FLDCRDSTATE>&daddr=<CMTL BLDATA_FLDTKTCARDID_FLDCRDADDRESS1>, <CMTLBLDATA_FLDTKTCARDID_FLDCRDCITY>, <CMTLBLDATA_FLDTKTCARDID_FLDCRDSTATE>


(Update from RangerMSP Team: the Google® Maps and Apple® Maps were embedded in various places within the client app and the Web app in RangerMSP 18.)

[maxtowns]

Re: Google maps with directions.

muchos gracias! will give it a go :)

[maxtowns]

Re: Google maps with directions.

The above when run gave me an error along the lines that none of the CARDID fields could be found

messed around a bit and came up with this

Base URL:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/preview/dir/

URL Parameters:
<CMTLBLDATA_FLDGENCURUSER_FLDCRDZIP>/<CMTLBLDATA_FLDCRDZIP>

Which seems to work just fine - unfortunately as we are not office based the starting point would be much better if it could get the users current location but I think that is going to be a challenge too far...?

At least understand more about these templates and this might come in useful from time to time

thanks!

[Support Team]

Re: Google maps with directions.

There are some spaces in the above example that should not be there, perhaps they caused the error you saw.

But you are right, it would be a challenge too far for using the current location as the start point.

[maxtowns]

Re: Google maps with directions.

Yup thought so/would obviously be great/very useful but difficult

It just didn't seem to like any of the three (I think it is) CARID fields - couldn't find them...

Anyway very simple expression works well and can no doubt be extended to inlude street name etc but post (aka zip) code does the job perfectly for us

Many thanks for your help