Google Maps Button

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#1

I have a form with with the Address, City, State, Zip showing. I want to add a button to take this info from the screen (Current Record) and build a link and open a web page (Google Maps) with it.

The link should open Google Maps as the link (Below)

www.google.com/maps/dir/18+L…aris,+IL+61944

The link should look like this when it opens the page with current record address info as the starting point.

I need to it do this way because the Google API does not give me the info I need, I then need to put in a destination address on the Google Maps page so I can get drive time and mileage.

I have added the button with the button section but I am unsure how to proceed from here.

Any Help would be appreciated.

Thanks Tim

#2

There are different ways to do it.
You can create a virtual field on SC, and build a “link” to redirect to the URL you builded.

something like:

PSEUDO CODE
$direction = {direction};
$directionParsed = parseDirection($direction) //parse your direction to change spaces for + symbol
{myGoogleLink} = '<a href="www.google.com/maps/dir/' .$directionParsed. '">CLICK TO GO TO GOOGLE</a>';
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#3

I am new to Scriptcase, I do not know how to get current record “Address” “City” “State” “Zip” to build the link, I then could concatenate the field to the Google maps address to get my desire result. Anybody that could help me with this?

Than You

#4

Hello Giu,

Can you help me to add “virtual field” ?

There is my original question Link to Google maps?

Thanks