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Hi,
I don’t really know how to do that – it’s not something the plugin is set up to do – so I can only give you some ideas / suggestions:
First, if possible, it would be much easier to just populate #bottom when you create the POI rather than using AJAX.
If you do need AJAX, you might try catching the ‘domready’ event that occurs when an infoWindow is opened. The MapPress map ojbect has a name. By default the maps on a page are named ‘mapp0’, ‘mapp1’, etc. You can use ‘name=”myname”‘ in the shortcode to specify a name.
With the map object, you can get the infowindow by calling getInfoWindow:
mapp0.getInfoWindow()Then you can use the google event ‘domready’ to know when the window is opened. When that event occurs, you can make the AJAX call and replace the infoWindow contents. Below is some pseudo-code to illustrate the idea:
var iw = mapp0.getInfoWindow(); google.maps.event.addListenerOnce(iw, "domready", function() { .. your AJAX code here .. iw.setContent(newContent); });There is no event before the infoWindow is opened, so the infoWindow will show without the content and then resize with the new content after the AJAX call.
Hi,
It’s actually the same template file for both single maps and mashups.
How you do this depends on how the shortcode was programmed, where the shortcode is, and what you’re displaying in the mashup (based on the “mashup body” setting in the MapPress settings or the mashup shortcode).
If you’re displaying the poi body in the mashup, and the shortcode is in the poi body, then the technique above should work.
If you’re displaying post excerpts in the mashup, then MapPress will set up the poi body using WP function get_the_excerpt(). Unfortunately, the WP standard excerpt function strips out all shortcodes. This may be what is happening in your case.
There are various workarounds for that problem. Try a quick search on ‘the_excerpt’ and ‘shortcodes’ in Google or the WordPress codex. Here are few examples that might help:
http://andrewferguson.net/2012/07/22/using-shortcodes-in-the_excerpt/
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/75631/the-excerpt-or-get-the-excerpt-with-shortcode-escapeHi,
OK – then in the loop, I think you just need to set the address:
new Mappress_Poi(array("corrected_address" => "200 Main Street", “iconid” => $search_term, “title” => $title, “body” => $body, “point” => array(“lat” => $list_locations['latitude'], “lng” => $list_locations['longitude'])));Hi,
I’m assuming you’re creating the POI by entering an address, then dragging the marker.
If so, this is fixed in version 2.40.8. Previous versions would ‘forget’ the address when a POI was dragged.
With the new version, the plugin should remember the original address for directions, even if the marker is dragged to a new location.
Hi, maybe one of the other terms functions would work for you? I think they usually return an object, not just the term name:
Hi,
You’re getting ID8 because when you uninstall the database tables are not deleted, so that’s normal.
For the error: I did see this on one site where the database prefix was mixed case, i.e. “WordPress1234_wp”.
If you’d like to send a login I’ll trace it for you.
Hi Connie,
There’s a simple example here for displaying custom fields using get_post_meta():
http://mappresspro.com/mappress-documentation#toc-modifying-the-poi-templateI can’t tell you how to read the Types fields because I’m not familiar with their API. You’ll need to consult their documentation.
They probably have information about how to get custom fields in a template file. The POI template should work the same way.
Hi,
I’m sorry, but I don’t know why the ACF call wouldn’t work. The POI layout runs within that same template, so it should behave identically to a call from the template.
Does it work if you use a regular (non-ACF) custom field? Perhaps you can have ACF save the value to a custom field you can read with get_post_meta() instead.
Also, could you post your entire template file or email it to me?
Hi,
If you use a regular (non-ACF) field with the code I gave you, does it work?
That code works for me on my test system, so I think the problem is with getting the ACF field value using get_field().
Try to test this without MapPress. Add your code with get_field() into the template file for single posts (usually in the theme directory ‘single.php’). Do you see a value that way?
If not, then you’ll need to ask the ACF folks why the value isn’t coming through.
Hi,
The [mappress] shortcode doesn’t have anything to do with auto-generation of the maps. But they don’t get generated until a post is saved or published, so maybe it’s a timing issue?
Try this: go to a post where you have an ‘address’ custom field and publish it – you should see the map generated, without needing to put the shortcode in the post.
The shortcode doesn’t take an ‘address’ attribute because you would then need to geocode that address every time a page is displayed. It would slow down your site and you could hit the Google usage limits (see the docs for details).
Hi,
The maps are only generated from custom fields. The plugin doesn’t read the post title.
If you can copy the post title to a custom field when the post is saved, that might work. Then the map could be generated from that field. For example, copy the post title to a field called ‘address’.
That would require a little PHP. I think you could use this event:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/save_post
Hi,
The plugin enables Google’s ‘drawing manager’, which takes care of the line/shape editing. It’s not at all intuitive, but I think it’s possible to do what you want:
To delete a vertex: drag an existing vertex over another one and the first vertex is deleted
To insert a vertex: drag any of the existing vertices. This will create two new vertices each time you drag.
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As a side-note: if you’re going to be drawing complex shapes, it might be easier to do it in Google Maps or Google Earth and then embed them in the MapPress map as a KML file. Google’s own applications have better line/shape editing tools that are not available in the maps API.The default is the Google ‘infowindow’. The main styling classes are:
mapp-iw
mapp-title
mapp-bodyNote that styling for the infowindow is limited, since a lot of it is set by Google (for example the shape, the shadow, etc.). If you use Firebug or IE Developer Tools, you can see the Google classes, they’re injected into the document header when the page is loaded.
