http://www.proofgroup.com/blog/2008/nov/google_mapping_redux

http://www.proofgroup.com/blog/2008/nov/google_mapping_redux

POST is the answer, but unfortunately FileMaker doesn’t give us POST natively in the Web Viewer. Your solution, to use the plugin, is innovative, but you actually ran into problems with the FileMaker implementation of the “data URI scheme”. I had seen this, too. The Google API key is based on the ‘Host’. For a hosted file, this is the server address. For a local file, this is usually blank (and Google allows any API to be used with a blank host). However, in this case, FileMaker is *not* giving us a blank Host. It is returning a Host which looks like this: ‘2071A046-D389-4811-A9DC-E3F1D27E3DC9′.

Loading some simple JavaScript via ‘data:text/html’ will show you this first-hand:

HOST:document.write(location.host)

There’s nothing that can be done with that. Even saving the file locally and opening it via a file reference (e.g. “file://HD/Users/username/Desktop/map.html”) won’t do it for the same reason.

The solution I found, which is well too complicated to go into here fully, was to basically do the following:

1) Create a form with all my parameters
2) Save it to the local disk
3) Open the file in a Web Viewer

Step 4 would be either: (a) push the submit button or (b) use JavaScript to auto-submit the form.

If I can find some time, I’ll put something more detailed up.

–Mike

Any clues on how to go about this exercise? I’ve tried using the Troi URL plugin to do the POST, getting the result page source (HTML) into a field, and displaying the HTML in a web viewer using the “data URI scheme” - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme - but that doesn’t work. The problem is that my Google Maps API key can’t be verified (for reasons that I can’t understand) when the page is viewed like this (though the same page works fine in a web browser).

I’m assuming that there’s a more straightforward method, based on your teaser, which wouldn’t use a plugin, but I have no idea what that method would be….?

I am confused by this because I don’t know enough about PHPor Java. I am trying to use the Google API to create a web viewer object that will give me point-to-point directions using addresses that are in my database. I can forego the map, if necessary, because of space limitations on my layout. But I need to learn how to formulate the calculation that calls the directions from Google Maps.

Any clues?

I have a question for you all, rather than a comment.

Is there a way to allow people to select multiple portal rows using the “Portal Row Highlighting” method shown above? I would want people to be able to select apples, oranges and bananas, making all three of those rows blue. Is that possible?

Thanks!