topic Re: Location Services on QlikView? in QlikView

Location Services on QlikView?

Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:38:34 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to develop an app and want to use something like the Location Services. My idea is to show in a map the nearest customers you have from you, according to your current location.

Is it possible? How?

Thanks,

Jorge

Re: Location Services on QlikView?

jaimeaguilar — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:59:43 GMT

Hi,

You can achieve that by using an extension. The way it works is that you can embed any web object into QlikView. You may want to take a look at this post:

http://community.qlik.com/ideas/2456

regards

Re: Location Services on QlikView?

Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:04:02 GMT

Really nice! But do you know any extension like this?

Re: Location Services on QlikView?

jaimeaguilar — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:36:31 GMT

There are plenty of map extensions (GeoQlik, QlikMaps, Integeo). All of them have location services, Google maps integration, etc. The "problem" is that they're not free. However, if you'd like to see a practical free example, take a look at these post where you can download sample code:

http://community.qlik.com/message/153412

Re: Location Services on QlikView?

Josh_Good — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:05:20 GMT

Check out the GPS Store Finder on the demo site

GPS Store Finder

You will need to download the extension and the QVW to get it working locally. The extension can be downloaded by clicking on More Resources.

Yes this can be done.

Re: Location Services on QlikView?

Tue, 26 Aug 2014 21:34:53 GMT

Hi Josh,

great post!

I took a look at the template and installed the extension. When I go to web view I'm able to see the button and it's properties. However the properties are empty and without any clear instructions, the extension is almost useless. Would you happen to have some kind of instructions on how to use the extension?

thanks a lot!

Re: Location Services on QlikView?

Josh_Good — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 22:00:07 GMT

Hi David,

I don't have any instructions sorry. I believe the extension really only works when viewing the app via a web browser (i.e. from a server). From what I can tell the extension object just triggers the web browser to share the location with the app.

I'll keep looking to see if I can dig up more info on this extension.

Regards,

Josh

Re: Location Services on QlikView?

Brian_Munz — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:31:10 GMT

Sorry, I thought instructions were packed in. I believe that the one in there is a document extension that I built. If so, like Josh said, it will only work in a web browser since it leverages those kinds of capabilities. It should set two variables, vLat and vLong. You can use those coordinates to plot on a map similar to this demo.

Re: Location Services on QlikView?

Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:44:33 GMT

Hi Brian,

is there any way to "trigger" the code without having to click on the actual button? Because it would be great if the QV dashboard could get the current location "on open" without the user having to click on the button 🙂

thanks for any help you can provide!

David

Re: Location Services on QlikView?

Brian_Munz — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:49:43 GMT

Yes, definitely. You can use a document extension to get the location (using HTML and JS) and set some variables to those long/lat values. I THINK that is also packaged up in those demo resources. If not, let me know and I'll try to find it.

Re: Location Services on QlikView?

Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:03:09 GMT

I've added the button that allows to get the current Lat and Long and it works fine. However, I'd like to trigger the action on open but I have no idea how to do that :-(. I tried activate objet with the object ID but it doesnt do anything...

Re: Location Services on QlikView?

Brian_Munz — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:34:45 GMT

I've added a document extension to Qlik Branch that detects location when the app is loaded:

http://branch.qlik.com/projects/showthread.php?234-Geo-Location-Document-Extension

Re: Location Services on QlikView?

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:47:42 GMT

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the document extension.

I have used the extension available in the GPS Store Finder app and have built the chart and a dashboard around this. But only now i am facing an issue that this goes to be of no use to the user when they are viewing the chart on a Tablet or mobile device (ipad/Nexus). The reason being that the pop-up labels do not appear on the the scatter chart on touch enabled devices. I understand that this is expressed as a limitation in QV itself on touch enabled devices.

I have been digging around and trying to find an alternate solution to overcome this problem. But i haven't got anywhere till now.

I am just reaching out to you in hope that, if you encountered such issue and if you could provide me some help on how best can i handle this now to provide the user an alternate solutions to overcome this problem.

Thanks in advance,

Aadil

PS: Jorge, Apologies to post a diff question on your post.

Re: Location Services on QlikView?

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 05:09:00 GMT

Hi Brian,

I downloaded the extension and installed the QAR file. I created two variables vLat and vLong. When I open the app in qlikview desktop application. location value doesn't get automatically fetched in the variables.

How does this work