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This Custom Tool allows users to use Google Maps © as followed:

 

•Static custom tool: Google Maps © opens in a new pop-up window with the current map extent of the WebOffice core client.

•Simple custom tool: The Google Maps © window covers the half of the WebOffice map. Both maps react synchronously to further interactions (zoom, pan, etc.).

•Simple custom tool with routing parameter enabled: Based on two clicks in the map of the WebOffice core client, Google Maps © opens with the corresponding routing functionality.

 

Configure the custom tool GoogleMapsWidget.htm from the directory C:\Tomcat\webapps\<WebOffice application>\pub\custom_tools as described below:

(1) Web-Integration - custom Tool

Configure a Web integration - custom tool with the following parameters:

URL of external page: pub/custom_tools/GoogleMapsWidget.htm

JavaScript function: callFromWO

Tool icon: pub/images/customtool_google_maps.png

 

 

(2) Configuration of a specific custom tool

Depending on how the Google Maps © custom tool should be executed, the following types of custom tools can be defined:

 

Static Custom Tool

Configure a static custom tool for the respective web integration. This opens Google Maps© in a new pop-up window with the current map extent of the WebOffice core client:

 

 

Next, configure the display mode pop up for the static custom tool you have just created:

 

 

Simple Custom Tool

Configure a simple custom tool for the respective web integration. Thereby, the Google Maps© window covers the half of the WebOffice map, whereby both maps react synchronously to further interactions (zoom, pan, etc.). This means that interactions in the WebOffice map affect the Google Maps© integration and vice versa.

 

 

Simple Custom Tool with routing parameter enabled

First, it must be ensured that the routing parameter useIframeAsRoute is activated in the admin part of the Google Maps© custom tools:

 

 

Then configure a simple custom tool for the respective web integration as described above. Thereby, the coordinates of two clickpoints within the WebOffice core client are transferred to Google Maps ©. At the same time, the routing functionality of Google Maps © is started by using the transferred coordinates.

 

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