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Location Services on QlikView?

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

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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...

Brian_Munz
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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

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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.

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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