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    Map Functionality On Dialog (UX) Componet - No plotRoute method available

    Hello!

    I am trying to recreate the mapping functionality as seen in the 5 videos: Geocoding Addresses and Showing Them on a Map done by Selwyn.

    Here is the video:
    [URL="http://www.ajaxvideotutorials.com/V11Videos/googleMap_RepeatingSection5.swf"]

    At the bottom of the list of video on the video library page, there is a link to download the component used in the video. I did and I thank you!

    I have just about everything running like in the videos but I cannot get the map to plot the route like Selwyn got to work in the videos.

    In video 5 at about the 10 second mark, Selwyn moves his pointer to the top of the Javascript functions window where there is a menu item "insert". He clicks it and types in "route" to filter the methods in the list to find the "plotRoute" method to show what it is and does.

    When I do the very same thing in my version of Alpha, v11 3044-4041, I do not get the same methods showing available in the list of methods. In fact, I don't see ANY mapping methods in the list of available methods.

    So, when there is a reference to the "plotRoute" method in the Javascript, could that be what's wrong?

    I do have an extra menu item that is not in the menu list at the top of the page which say "action Javascript" with the little lamp there.

    Do you think this is because I am using the wrong build or do you think there is something else wrong?

    Thanks!
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    Re: Map Functionality On Dialog (UX) Componet - No plotRoute method available

    Sorry. Looks like a false alarm.

    I messed with the Javascript a little and then got it to work right.

    I really can't tell you what I did except reset the dialog after messing with the code (cashe?)

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      #3
      Re: Map Functionality On Dialog (UX) Componet - No plotRoute method available

      Not so fast.....

      The reason I did not have the plotRoute method in my choices is that I did not have the Maps for Dialog feature pack installed. Looks like there are at least 2 different feature packs that you need if you want to work with maps in both grids and dialogs.

      I did get the map to work once. Now, every time I try to plot a new route, I just get a map of Boston with no points plotted.

      Any ideas?

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        Re: Map Functionality On Dialog (UX) Componet - No plotRoute method available

        Okay. I have basically the same problem that I started with.

        I have built a dialog with a Google mapping feature just like in the videos that plots a route form the entries in a repeating section. The javascript is supposed to read the lat and lng fields in the repeating section and then plot a route based on the lat and long values.

        My javascript is actually a cut and paste from the component that we are allowed to download from Alpha that is in the training videos section.

        I have the same javascript Selwyn uses in his video.

        I can get the route plotted if I delete any existing entries in the repeating section and enter and submit new ones.

        The problem is that I cannot plot a route from what is in the repeating section to begin with. All I get is a nice map of Boston when I hit the Plot Route button.

        As another aside, the dialog that we can download form the training video site works fine. I downloaded it and the mySQL tables that are bound to it and it works like a champ. So, I tried to bind the dialog to my tables instead of the tables I downloaded = no joy.

        Have any of you tried to build anything that plots routes using a Google map from a dialog component yet?

        Thank For any help you can spare!

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          Re: Map Functionality On Dialog (UX) Componet - No plotRoute method available

          Al, try reposting to the V12 area of the message board.
          Juan Silva
          My Small Bizz, LLC
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            #6
            Re: Map Functionality On Dialog (UX) Componet - No plotRoute method available

            Are you sure?

            This is a v11 issue / feature pack.

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              #7
              Re: Map Functionality On Dialog (UX) Componet - No plotRoute method available

              V11 does not have (UX) components that is the new name of the dialog2 component on v12.
              Juan Silva
              My Small Bizz, LLC
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                #8
                Re: Map Functionality On Dialog (UX) Componet - No plotRoute method available

                Yes I know. They dialog components have been named UX components for v12.

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                  Re: Map Functionality On Dialog (UX) Componet - No plotRoute method available

                  Okay.

                  Here is a short video that explains what is going on:

                  http://screencast.com/t/dTPjeORAyBN

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                    Re: Map Functionality On Dialog (UX) Componet - No plotRoute method available

                    Wow, this was a good one.

                    If you have blank lines in your repeating section, the loop that the javascript uses in the plotRoute function actually assigns blank entries (or "[,]" for what would otherwise be lat and lng values) which makes the map and directions not work since there are no lat and lng values for the blank lines.

                    When entering addresses in the repeating section, set the REPEAT COUNT to 2. This will eliminate the blank lines in the repeating section. If there are more, let the user hit the + icon to add the additional rows. Don't present them to begin with.

                    This will solve the problem.

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