Example: Displaying offices on the map

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This example will show you how to display a list of offices and their location on the map. We will use the Google maps web part in this example. However, the procedure is identical for Bing maps and Yahoo maps too.

 

We will use the sample Corporate Site for this example, and create a page for offices directly under the website root. The page will follow the same concept as the Company/Offices page on this site. We will create the new one only so that we can see the step-by-step procedure of creating such page from scratch.

 

How to do it in general

 

To display content on a map, you need to have this content stored in the content tree as standard documents. These documents can be of any document type as long as the document type contains two fields for the geographical coordinates - one for longitude and one for latitude.

 

Then you need to configure the properties of the maps web part to display documents of this document type stored within the desired location, and specify which fields of the document type contain the coordinates. This ensures displaying of the location markers. Finally, you need to choose a field for the heading and a transformation for the content of the tooltip displayed when a location marker is clicked.

 

Step 1 - Creating a new page with offices

 

1. Sign in as administrator to CMS Desk -> Content and click the root of the content tree.

 

2. Click New and choose to create a new Page (menu item). Enter Offices for Page name and choose to Create a blank page using the Two columns layout. Click Save.

 

3. First we need to add a list of offices. Switch to the Design tab and add the Listings and viewers/Repeater web part to the zoneLeft web part zone. Set the following properties:

 

Path: /{0}/%
Document types: cms.office
Transformation: cms.office.simple
Selected item transformation: cms.office.
Item separator: <br />
Content before: <div class="GeneralList">
Content after: </div>

 

Click OK.

 

Step 2 - Geo-coding your information

 

4. Now we will create two documents of the Office type. Click the Offices page and click New. Choose to create a new Office and enter the following values:

 

Office name: New York Office
Address line 1: 1290 Avenue of the Americas
City: New York
ZIP code: 10104
State: NY
Country: USA
Phone: 123456789
E-mail: ny@example.com
Office photo: choose some image from your local disk
Latitude: 40.76
Longitude: -73.98

 

 

 

Please note

 

The Office document type already contains the Latitude and Longitude fields. These are the fields that you will specify later in the map web  part properties as the source for the geographical position of the location markers. If you're using a custom document type, you will need to define these fields manually. They must be of the Decimal number type. You can call them as you need, you only need to specify the appropriate name in the web part properties.

 

Values are valid in the following intervals:

 

Latitude: from -90 to 90
Longitude: from -180 to 180

 

 

Click Save.

 

5. Create another office:
 

Office name: San Francisco Office
Address line 1: 835 Market Street
City: San Francisco
ZIP code: 94103
State: CA
Country: USA
Phone: 123456789
E-mail: sf@example.com
Office photo: choose some image from your local disk
Latitude: 37.78
Longitude: -122.41

 

Click Save.

 

Step 3 - Displaying the content on the map

 

When you see the page now, it displays only a list of offices. Switch to the Design tab and add the Maps/Google maps web part.

 

First, we will configure which documents should be displayed on the map. Set the following properties:

 

Path: /{0}/%
Document types: cms.office
 

It ensures that all offices in the current site section will be shown. Now we specify the transformation used for the text displayed in the balloon:
 

Transformation: cms.office.preview

 

Now we set the following values that specify how the map is displayed:

 

Large view scale: 3 (the zoom used on page load)
Detailed view scale: 10 (the zoom used a location marker is clicked)
Width: 500 (in pixels)
Height: 400 (in pixels)
Default latitude: 39.27 (latitude of the map center when the overview map is displayed on page load)
Default longitude: -98.20 (longitude of the map center when the overview map is displayed on page load)
Latitude field: OfficeLatitude (the field of the document containing the latitude position)
Longitude field: OfficeLongitude (the field of the document containing the longitude position)
Tooltip field: OfficeName (the field used for the heading of the tooltips)
Content before: <div class="Map">
Content after: </div>

 

Click OK.

 

Sign out and see the page. It will look like this:

 

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You can see two baloons on the map - these are the location markers. When you mouse-over a balloon, you will see the office name. When you click a balloon or an office link in the list, you will see the detailed view:

 

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