May 23, 2019 Blog FileMaker 18fmMappingGoogleGoogle Mapsmapping New version of fmMapping – Google Maps for FileMaker Today we offer a new minor update to our ever-popular fmMapping Module. If you’re not familiar with it, this is a simple-to-deploy, FileMaker-native module for integrating Google maps with your FileMaker application. It has the ability to map multiple address records on a single Google map, using a webviewer. The updates today fix a minor bug, provide better documentation of recent changes to Google’s API, and more importantly, remove the need for custom functions. The older version relied on two of them, and they’ve both been replaced with FileMaker 16’s native JSON functions. If you’re running a version of FileMaker earlier than 16, this update is not for you. You can download the new version HERE, and let us know if you need help deploying it, or if you’re interested in added features. Note: If you’ve had trouble recently with Google maps being drawn with a darkened background and the words “For development purposes only”, it’s due to changes made by Google: The Google Maps API now requires all requests to be submitted with an API key. Formerly, they allowed a certain number of requests without the need for a key.For the fmMapping module to work correctly, there are two separate APIs that need to be enabled in the Google Maps Developer Console: Geocoding APIMaps Javascript API fmMapping is one of our best-loved modules, and has many cool applications for use. We’d love to know how you are integrating this module into your solutions in the comments section, so let us know below! By David Weiner
5 Comments Carl Oester Posted on 6:55 AM - July 24, 2019 Hi, We have FileMaker. And I would like to connect our FileMaker program to google maps function on our website. Today, Ill manually share the excel file from FileMaker into our WordPress site to upload the exceel sheet in google maps. How can I Make a smoother transition? David Weiner Posted on 10:48 AM - July 24, 2019 Carl, We haven’t tried it, but if you have our Map Module already working in your FileMaker system, you might be able to do something like call the mapping script using the FileMaker API, and send the javascript map back to the user’s browser. Or you could probably use Webdirect to embed the map on your website. The details of using these methods are too complicated to get into here, but feel free to reach out directly to set up some time for consultation if you like! Francisco Posted on 5:55 PM - November 24, 2020 Hi, I very much love fmMapping! Is there a way to actually print the map? When I try to print only a light brown square covering the whole page shows. David Weiner Posted on 10:45 AM - November 25, 2020 I wasn’t aware of this problem, but apparently printing Web Viewers in FileMaker is an ongoing limitation (and fmMapping uses a Web Viewer to display the map). You can use a web API to render the Web Viewer and return it as an image or you could use Javascript and CSS in the Web Viewer to do that for you (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-render-html-to-an-image/). There’s also a plugin that takes screenshots https://www.seedcode.com/printing-web-viewers-filemaker-16/ Francisco Posted on 8:44 AM - November 26, 2020 Thanks!