Location Column
The Location column is designed to hold both latitude and longitude as a single entity and optionally visualize it on a map. For example:
The Location column options are described below.
General Properties
If a column contains data that doesn’t appear or behave as desired, you can edit the column’s General Properties.
Location Options
Properties defined by the column type:
- Format
- The Format property allows you to choose from two options:
- Signed degrees. The values are displayed in a form of a pair of two decimal numbers – latitude and longitude expressed as whole number and fractions of a degree, such as 41.836944, -87.684722. This format is commonly used in GPS systems so it is the default to simplify copy-pasting;
- Degrees, minutes, seconds. The values are displayed in a classic form such as 41° 50′ 13″ N, 87° 41′ 5″ W. It is human readable but there is a subject of rounding errors. TeamDesk holds up to six decimal points for coordinates, that’s the location precision is about 11cm.
- List Style
- This property allows you to define how to display a location in Views.
- Form Style
- This property allows you to define how to display a location on Forms.
The following display options are available for List Style and Form Style:
- Link: Location is displayed as coordinates and is presented as a clickable link. You can override link text by enterring the text you need into Display field.
- Button: Location is displayed as coordinates within a button. You can override button label by enterring the text you need into Display field.
- Map: Location is displayed as a map.
There are four options to visualise map:
- Map - Roads: Location is displayed as a map, showing the roads;
- Map - Terrain: Location is displayed as a map, showing the terrain;
- Map - Satellite: Location is displayed as a map, showing the satellite images;
- Map - Hybrid: Location is displayed as a map, showing the satellite images combined with the roads.
Map size options:
| Size | List | Form |
|---|---|---|
| Small | 50x50px | 120x120px |
| Medium | 100x100px | 240x240px |
| Large | 200x200px | 480x480px |
| Huge | 400x400px | 960x960px |
Map zoom options:
- World: map is zoomed to the world view;
- Continent: map is zoomed to the continent view;
- City: map is zoomed to the city view;
- Street: map is zoomed to the street view;
- Building: map is zoomed to the building view.
- Hide coordinates
- This option allows to hide the coordinates that are by default visible under the map image.
Any of these options is clickable and leads to Google Maps. Clicking on mobile platforms will launch the corresponding application.
- On Edit
- This option automatically fills in the column with the current location value when a new record is created, but only if the location field is empty.
- Help
- When the Help text property is filled in, a question mark is displayed near the field name on the View/Edit form. Pointing to this question mark will show a pop-up with a tip or a help text message.