You can customize ProMaps to use different pins or icons depending on the status of your FileMaker records. But you can also use Google’s API to label the pin based on a field in FileMaker. In the screenshot below, Paula Powell from Wisconsin Fuel customized the pins to match her dispatching and routing statuses, taking the icon, the color, and the number from fields she had in FileMaker. Here’s...

FileMaker makes getting an accurate latitude and longitude from an iPhone or iPad super easy. Say you want to update a properties’ exact location in ProMaps when you’re on site: why not get it automatically from your device? Here’s a video of this in action: Implementing Geolocation in FileMaker Go This is easily implemented by adding a small script to your solution. Here’s a screenshot of the script we’d add...

Love this mod sent in by Scott Walker at NMR Group, Inc. Scott wanted to replace the container field image for each address with a Google Street View of the same address inside ProMaps. Great idea! Scott did this with a quick change to the calc field “gm_MapData” that’s added to your properties table in ProMaps. In that calc, replace this… Let ( sc_propertyImage = Case ( not IsEmpty (...

A customer recently wanted ProMaps to default to Satellite mode, and since customers have access to the map’s html, this was a pretty easy mod to make. Step by step instructions follow, but here’s what it looks like: (You can toggle the 3D display and switch back to an overhead display by clicking the grid icon in the lower right.) Making satellite mode the default in your FileMaker map 1. To...

We’ve just launched a new version of ProMaps adding capabilities like shape-searches and routing! We owe a big thanks to Tanner Ellen for his suggestion that we gather up what we’ve learned into a new version. This new ProMaps represents over three years of making custom FileMaker maps and modifying ProMaps for customers. New Features Routing: create routes and direction for up to 23 addresses (plus your start and end addresses). Or click on any pin in...

Based on a customer’s request we’ve put together a neat example to show you how to convert the filters in ProMaps from drop-down lists to checkboxes so you can select multiple items at once. This is a simple change you can make in your own copy of ProMaps–be sure to ask us for this example file if you’d like to make this change in your copy. Here’s quick demo...

Folks using ProMaps on Windows may be seeing slower performance on some versions of Internet Explorer. Fortunately there is a super-easy mod to speed up the map on these Windows machines. A huge thanks to JohnAustin Lamprecht of Soliant for finding this! Instructions for making this change in your copy of ProMaps follow: (If you’re new to ProMaps you can learn more about this add-on here: ProMaps for FileMaker.)