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MarkShnier__You's avatar
MarkShnier__You
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3 years ago

Dashboard Maps are actually awesome

Just FYI, and not a question ..... I just did my first production map report with hundreds of pins ( 610 pins to be exact!) on the Dashboard and OMG, you really have to give Quickbase credit for th...
ChristineK's avatar
ChristineK
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3 years ago
This is probably the absolutely perfect thread to see if anyone can help me figure out how to accomplish our goals. We are a NYS-based telehealth program that offers services specifically within hospitals. I have every NYS hospital on our map, and I'd like to color code them based on where there is access to our service or a similar service, versus those who don't. I already have those fields built in, but there are 193 hospitals in NYS for this report. I did do the dashboard and see my color-coded pins, but the problem is I'm seeing the lump of hospitals as a number - I'd really like to visualize all of NYS at once. Alternatively, to try to solve for this, I added in the region of NYS. That still is not quite drilled down enough to see all of our hospitals.... so I thought of going small section by small section to kind of piece together an overall map on a dashboard..... this is cumbersome and not attractive.

Is there a way to get them ALL to populate/no drill downs (it's okay to see several pins all lumped)..... and even better yet.... could I somehow get the counties sussed out on the map, and even color-code the underlying county map based on a separate condition?

Thanks in advance!


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Christine Kirk
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MarkShnier__You
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3 years ago
When you say they're all lumped together in a number, are you aware that you can zoom in with the scroll wheel?   There is no way to overlay county borders but if you have any useful dynamic filters such as a county field on the record then you can set up a dashboard filter and just look at a single county or two at a time. Does that help?

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  • MarkShnier__You's avatar
    MarkShnier__You
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    3 years ago
    I am running into a bag on the new dashboard maps which I have reported where by if I use the icon at the top right to maximize the screen space I lose the ability to hover over tags or to click through a tag. Are others seeing the same bug?

    EDIT: Support was able to replicate the Bug. Now waiting for a response.
    EDIT: I noticed at the top right of my dashboard page there is an icon of a TV screen. When I did that it expanded the map to almost full screen and the however capability was retained. So maybe the bug is that the other icon  << >>  should not be showing on that page at all. 

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    Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
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  • ChristineK's avatar
    ChristineK
    Qrew Cadet
    3 years ago
    Thanks! I was aware you can zoom in - the problem is, we want to really visualize the state-of-the-state all together. So having the numbers lumped like that is not terribly helpful given that the pins are intended to be color-coded and a very easy visualization of where there are areas without services.

    The county filter is a great idea, though! We've further set it up into sections of the state, so we coudl filter out that way.

    Is there a way to superimpose one map on another? It would be amazing to superimpose one map showing whether Service A exists, over top of another map that shows whether Service B exists. I realize I can suss out some of that by simply having Services A & B available on one field, but in this instance, I cannot. One measures a broad community-level program, while the other measures specifics at hospitals, so it wouldn't make sense to have them in one field/nor do I think we could really capture it. But I may think on that a touch more.

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    Christine Kirk
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    • MarkShnier__You's avatar
      MarkShnier__You
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      3 years ago
      Well, you can have different colored pins representing your two different sets of data.

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      • MarkShnier__You's avatar
        MarkShnier__You
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        3 years ago
        You may have a situation where you're trying to plot 2 sets of data and they are in different tables. I have that situation with a client where every job has a pick up and delivery and I need there for two pins.
        So what I did is I created a button where a scratch pad type table is purged and then records are copied in from the source tables to create the pins. Then it redirects the user to a map where record the owner is the current user. So the map is actually a plot of this kind of scratchpad table, and it only shows records for the current user. 


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