Latitude_c and Longitude_c are 2 fields when i want to use google maps in my salesforce account. What data type do i need to use for two of them.
Can any one help me to integrate with salesforce to google maps.
[SalesForce] What fields does Latitude__c and Longitude__c must use
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Not sure how much this relates to Salesforce specifically. If you need to use Google Maps in your VF pages, you can try Google Maps JavaScript API. Here is a guidance to integrate it with your VF page(Please modify any version related mismatches by going through documentations).
About the license and pricing check here. It's upto you to decide based on the number of API requests that will be sent.
If you think your website or application will generate high map loads consistently in the long-term, you should consider one of the following options:
- Modify your application so that your usage is less than 25 000 map loads per day.
- Enroll for automated billing of excess map loads in the Google APIs Console.
- Purchase a Maps API for Business license.
For web applications, JavaScript API is the simplest way to integrate Google Maps in my experience.
In general there are a lot of solution for prepopulating fields on the standard layout page.
- The first and a very dirty solution is to get the field ID from the page code and save it to some custom setting to be able to access it from the javascript for example. The problem here is that ID's are all different and you will have to set up it manually (so-called LKID hack).
Example: New page - Parent lookup pre-populated? - Next possibility is to use Tooling API to find the field ID's. This solution is more clear and reliable for the production system
- Example: New page - Parent lookup pre-populated?
- Topic from Andrew: Querying Custom Object and Field IDs via Tooling API
- Topic from Keith: Finding Visualforce field ids
- Topic from Frank: Salesforce URL Hacking (Properly)
- Finally you can override a standard page layout with your own visualforce page and reproduce edit/save/create functionallity. Then you will get a full access to all fields you need to prepopulate. For me it is a better way to do things like field prepopulation.
As you can see there are some solutions for this problem. You decide what you are taking.
Best Answer
You can use a Geolocation field. It is a compound field that consists of a Longitude and Latitude.
For example, if you create a custom Geolocation field called Location__c you will automatically be able to access the Longitude and Latitude in your code as follows:
Location__Longitude__sandLocation__Latitude__s.You can look at the Geolocation Field Overview for more information.