"Pin Selected" event action for Map views

[MultiTech]

There are currently no event actions available for Map views…

how about a “Pin Selected” event action???

There are dozens of posts in the community, where people are looking for a way to “take some control” over the map view. Right now this involves:

• Creating a slice for your map
• Creating a map view for that slice
• Creating a deck view for that slice
• (and currently, due to a bug) Creating a detail view that you must manually mirror with the root tables detail view

That last one particularly sucks, because unless you wish the details shown between seeing a record from a map-starting-point vs. elsewhere, it’s literally just a duplication of effort.

Creating a deck view to take control over the deck view that’s shown when you select a map pin… not so bad - in fact being able to have the confidence of knowing that that view is only for that specific deck view is kinda nice.

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But if we could simply take over the action that happens when someone selects a pin - adding in our own navigation deep-link, I think that’s what most people are really shooting for when they’re asking how to do things with the map views.

This obviously only applies to map views shown in a small enough display. I searched for a similar feature request, but surprizingly I couldn’t find one. Link to the original if I’m wrong.

As always, thanks for considering! (^_^)

[MultiTech]

I’d vote for this… but I’ve reached my limit of votes.

[Fabian_Weller]

Same to me

[Jake_Naude]

An excellent idea…!!! Voted…!!!

[Grant_Stead]

I have votes because I ONLY vote for the important stuff…
And, what you’re really asking for here is the Map View to act like other views…

[Fabian_Weller]

Here are same questions / requests. Please upvote here

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[Fabian_Weller]

MultiTech_Visions:

(and currently, due to a bug) Creating a detail view that you must manually mirror with the root tables detail view

Can you explain this?

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I could think also of a Row Selected Action to set the status for a map pin.
Like checking items on a XY map view.

[MultiTech]

What I meant was that previously, a few months ago or so, you could make use of the “Deck row selected event action” and even when shown at the bottom of a map view it would still work.

This meant that you could then use the event action, of someone tapping on the deck view under the map entry (when you select a map pin), and use that like any other event action; you could put a composite action there, or simply redirect someone with a navigation action to the system generated view for the row that was selected.

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This meant that you didn’t have to create a duplicate detail view for the “map detail view” - meaning the detail view you arrive at when you tap on a map pin enough times to get to a detail view for a record.

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But I see…

BUG: Locate / View in Map Actions do not work Questions

This is now working. https://community.appsheet.com/t/controlling-detail-beneath-google-map/20731/8?u=fabian

[Fabian_Weller]

I would like to use the Event Action to count, how often a Map Pin is selected.
I would like to do this with a grouped action:

1. Add +1 to a number column to count the clicks
2. Open a specified view

This is actually possible when you are in a Table / Deck / Card view. But not in a Map view.