Understanding and using the Geolocation element

12Sep, 2016

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The Geolocation element allows you to locate yourself or your users by recording your geographical position.

Example.

You manage a security company and want to ensure the reliability of your agents. Inserting a Geolocation field in your form will allow you to check their real location at the time they make the entry.

In the back-office.

• Create your form and add a Geolocation element.

• Several options are available:
  – Entry required: this means that the form can only be saved once this field is filled in.
  – Editable position: to get accurate coordinates.
  – Automatic geolocation when opening a form
• You can select the map view type:
  – Normal view (the default roadmap view).
  – Satellite view (Google earth satellite image).
  – Hybrid view (a mixture of normal and satellite view).
• You can choose the zoom level. To have an idea: 1 displays the word map and 18 displays the corresponding street. 12 displays more or less the neighbourhood.

• Don’t forget to save your form!

On your mobile.

Note:

On your custom-made Word pr Excel.

You can display a map view on your custom-made Word or Excel with this tag: ##geoloc:map-z12-200x200-satellite##.

• « -200x200 » corresponds to the dimension of the image.
• « z12 » corresponds to zoom in/out on the word map.  To have an idea: 1 displays the word map and 18 displays the corresponding street. 12 displays more or less the neighbourhood
• The following map types are available:
  – roadmap (the default road map view),
  – satellite (Google earth satellite images),
  – hybrid (a mixture of normal and satellite views),
  – terrain (displays a physical map based on terrain information).

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