Is there any way to have a google map on the QB homepage that I can ""click"" on and pull up co-ordinates to create a new client & Job site? also have the map display jobs?

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Im building QB app for our plumbing company. We make use of google maps extensively for mapping and finding addresses. In South Africa, our addressing system does not always point us to the customers house, we therefore use Lat&Long co-ordinates to get our techs from 1 site to the next. Is there any way that we can incorporate a google maps widget in the home screen with the ability to "click" and action a new client address and Job.

I know QB already has built in functions to show various jobs (with their status) already, however this relies on the native google maps search engine to pull address location which is not accurate for us. Some assistance will be appreciated

QuickBaseCoachD · Answer

I'm not sure if this will help but here is a tip when you want to store a Customer "Address" in the form of lat and long as opposed to a normal street address.

"Another feature that you can do natively without coding, is to put the latitude in the Street 1 field and the longitude in the Street 2 field. This will populate the location on the Google Map.

Ensure no other data entered and Save"

https://quickbase-community.intuit.com/questions/1333933-i-have-latitude-and-longitude-coordinates-as-decimals-43-72007-71-0363-and-i-would-like-to-display-this-location-on-a-google-map-on-a-quickbase-form#

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