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 this one. The map loads super fast and as advertised, I was able to customize the pin colour and pin icon. They also did quite a nice job of handling the situation where multiple pins are at the exact same address.Kudos to some unknown software engineers and Product Manager for nailing this one.------------------------------Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)mark.shnier@gmail.com------------------------------

With a shout out to Sheldon, & Amy, (Fun with Maps), I used Formula Queries, to do ranking and use the icons from 1-9 (and then I used the square plus sign for 10 and above), to visually rank the stop sequences of daily truck pickups and deliveries. In my use case there is rarely more than 9 stops per day But you could also visually rank customer sales within states, for example. ------------------------------Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)mark.shnier@gmail.com------------------------------

Perhaps look into the Juiced Technologies Maps Add On It can overlay two different data sets onto one maps, like pins from two different tables on one map. It does not aggregate the pins as native Quickbase Dashboard maps does, although if there are just too many pins to see separately based on the closeness of them and Zoom level I think still you would not see them as separate pins until you zoom in. You can contact support@juicedtech.com with specific questions.------------------------------Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)mark.shnier@gmail.com------------------------------

Does it only do that in Dashboards, or is there a way to get it to have the custom pin icons and colo(u)rs in a stand-alone map report?------------------------------Edward Hefter www.Sutubra.com------------------------------

For now, only on the new Dashboard. On the Roadmap for stand alone reports, but I don't think the timeline expectation has been announced.------------------------------Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)mark.shnier@gmail.com------------------------------

@Sharon Faust a.k.a. The QuickBase Junkie has a nice video on Ranking. https://youtu.be/sHU8pB38N2Y------------------------------Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)mark.shnier@gmail.com------------------------------

Dashboard Maps are actually awesome

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sergey_shurygin
Registered
23 hours ago
That’s awesome! And if you ever want to take maps even further with routing, territories, live tracking, or advanced filters, Mapsly connects with Quickbase and adds a full geo-intelligence layer on top of your data.
ChristineK
Qrew Assistant Captain
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
  Qrew Legend
  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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  Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
  mark.shnier@gmail.com
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  - ChristineK
    Qrew Assistant Captain
    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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EdwardHefter
Qrew Cadet
3 years ago
Does it only do that in Dashboards, or is there a way to get it to have the custom pin icons and colo(u)rs in a stand-alone map report?

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Edward Hefter
www.Sutubra.com
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- MarkShnier__You
  Qrew Legend
  3 years ago
  For now, only on the new Dashboard. On the Roadmap for stand alone reports, but I don't think the timeline expectation has been announced.
  
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  Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
  mark.shnier@gmail.com
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  - MarkShnier__You
    Qrew Legend
    3 years ago
    With a shout out to Sheldon, & Amy, (Fun with Maps), I used Formula Queries, to do ranking and use the icons from 1-9 (and then I used the square plus sign for 10 and above), to visually rank the stop sequences of daily truck pickups and deliveries. In my use case there is rarely more than 9 stops per day
    
    But you could also visually rank customer sales within states, for example.
    
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    Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
    mark.shnier@gmail.com
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