Questions tagged [geolocation]
The Geolocation field type allows for SOQL queries based on location and distance. Functions DISTANCE and GEOLOCATION support distance and location-based SOQL queries.
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FSL How to Track Users Locations?
"When service resource tracking is enabled, the Field Service Lightning mobile app uploads the geolocation of app users to Salesforce at regular intervals."
https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=...
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Geofencing push notifications in Marketing Cloud
Can i send a push notification when the contact enter the location and satisfy additional conditions, like for instance owns a membership card or age range?
Basically I don't want to send to everyone ...
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Display a count of records within 15 miles of a subscriber ZIP code
I have an ExactTarget question.
I have a data extension of _subscribers. One of the fields is their zip_code
I have another data extension of _widgets which includes the widgets' zip_code1
I also ...
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Geo-Coordinates in custom object
I need a latitude and longitude field in one of my custom object. I tried data integration rule but it is available only for account,contact and lead. How can i populate coordinate in custom object ...
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Error when setting “rendered” attribute on apex:mapMarker
I am trying to show/hide some map markers on an <apex:map> by assigning a boolean value coming from an Apex attribute to the rendered tag. However, I am receiving a compile error on save:
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Adding User Geolocation to Task Record
I’m looking to add functionality to the new and edit Task layouts (specific to Salesforce Mobile), so that when a user completes a task their current location is added to a custom geolocation field on ...
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Fetching latitude longitude datat from image on IOS in SF1 App
I need to to fetch the Latitude and Longitude of Image captured or uploaded using SF 1 App.I am using EXIF to fetch the same in javascript(helper)
While it is working on android , same does not work ...
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Error while retrieving location coords with navigator.geolocation.getCurrentLocation in LWC
So, I was just trying to get current location by using navigator.getlocation.getCurrentLocation method in Lightning Web Components. When I check if(navigator.getlocation), this returns true.
But ...
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Is Contact othergeocodeaccuracy a legitimate field?
Many of our Continuous Integration builds just failed with hundreds of this error:
System.QueryException: No such column 'othergeocodeaccuracy' on entity
'Contact'.
Our code does describe calls ...
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Are latitude and longitude saved automatically?
I'm wanting to use the BillingLatitude and BillingLongitude fields attached to my Account object in a workflow rule, but I can't seem to get them to work. I pulled an export via Data Loader of the ...
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Geolocation Query [closed]
I have two lists within SFMC that both have latitude and longitude values. I need to be able to compare them and find the distance between them in miles, then include or exclude records based on the ...
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Geolocation not working on VF page in aura component
I have created a VF page that is used inside an iframe on my lightning component. The iframe has attribute allow="geolocation;". Geolocation doesn't work on it when I try to use either Esri map's ...
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Using ESRI Maps in Salesforce via Javascript API
I am building a visualforce page that displays the geo-location of users in an ESRI Map (Not Google Map for reasons). The data is in a cusotm Location object with username, latitude and longitude. I ...
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Fetch location details of an image to geolocation field while uploading in lightning
I am trying to do a POC with the following details.
I have a custom object related to Account
CustomObject__c has a geolocation field which consists of Latitude and Longitude and a rich text area ...
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Field Service Lightning Location Tracker
I'm currently using Field Service Lightning. As a Dispatcher I would like for the travel time to be calculated depending where my technician is, or his home address. How can I make this possible? The ...
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How to store zipcode in salesforce sales cloud if I've latitude & longitude available?
We've build an Andoird App which store users location as latitude & longitude at the time of registration. This data is being pushed into salesforce sales cloud. Can I convert this piece of ...
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Can I get the geographic position of a user using the Salesforce1 app, without the cellular network?
I want to get the user location when he visits a possible customer, for example. But what if he doesn't have access to the internet at the time?
This would be used to improve their visiting route at ...
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Incorrect Longitude and Latitude
The Geolocation Longitude and Latitude coordinates I am getting out of Salesforce are not the same as the Google coordinates for the same address.
When I load an Account or Contact address the Map ...
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Contact Mailing Latitude & Longitude is zero despite map feature working
Looking for some help. I am trying to display geolocation on mailing address in Contact object. Any address I enter, the map renders perfect, but no Longitude or Latitude, I get nothing.
I have ...
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Marketing Cloud SDK - geolocation fence error
I try to receive a push notification when I'm in a specific place but each time the Marketing Cloud SDK send my position to his API service it sent the request with a wrong syntax.
Currently the ...
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Geolocation fields in Metadata
I have a bunch of postal codes in a metadata object (where they belong). Now I want to add a Geolocation field to this object but it seems I'm not able to choose this type.
Is it even possible to use ...
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Distance between two places based on geolocation
I am trying to write a query to find contacts within a radius of 50 miles and here is the SOQL i have
select Id,Name,mailingStreet,mailingState,mailingCity,mailingPostalCode,mailingcountry,...
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How to use Geocode field to display address info?
I have a custom field which is of Geolocation type. I just need to display the corresponding address information on the page. For ex, the field name is branch_location_id which contains the Lat Long ...
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Capture location through smart capture or form on custom cloud pages in salesforce marketing cloud
I want to capture location of customers via smart capture or custom form. As there is a huge list of locations (city,state), I want to integrate the same with google map or any other similar database ...
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Geolocation location fields in Contacts/Account
I know Salesforce has some custom hidden fields that stored geolocation coordinates based on the Mailing and Billing address fields. (and I believe this is how the plot Markers in the inline Google ...
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How can I update user goelocation to account record when selecting pin on map?
I have incorporated google map to display pins on a map for Account records. I am using navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(position) to center the map when it load and to get the users ...
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Capturing user's current location from a Quick action standard layout [closed]
I have a created quick action on a custom object (Address). Below are the details:
Object Name: Address
Action Type: Create a record
Target Object:Task
The quick action has his layout set for ...
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Is “Maps and Location (New!)” missing in the setup of Developer Orgs?
In Production- and Sandbox-Orgs (on EU0) there is a menu-entry in the setup called Maps and Location (New!)
It is located between "Tab Names and Labels" and "Home"
As an unfortunate this menu ...
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Cannot read property 'appendChild' of undefined
I want to show the geoposition on a leaflet map lightning component. I enter an Id and get geolocation data accordingly. When I first enter an Id everything works fine, for the second time it shows ...
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Geolocation of all leads and accounts in Sales Cloud
my fashion organization is planning to buy Sales Cloud.
One of the requirements of the sales men is to see in a map (Google Maps style) all leads and accounts (with type = "store") and also the ...
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Getting lat/lng for person accounts
Based on my understanding the mailing address on a person account will not be auto geolocated as is the case with normal accounts.
What is the easiest way to get a lat/lng for a person account? I ...
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Display nearest shop to one user thanks to ampscript and latitude longitude
I have 2 database with
- the geographical address of users (latitude and longitude)
- the geographical address of my shops (latitude and longitude)
I want to display in an email the 3 nearest shops ...
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Reverse geocoded address
Is it possible to get the address and map it into Account's standard addressess based on the long lat?
I have a code which gets the current long and lat and updates the details of the account in ...
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MobilePush getting lat/long from user
so for iOS MobilePush, i have location based and outbound based push notifications working, and configured the following
ETPush pushManager
with proper services enabled, and other changes I need to ...
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Geolocation has been disabled in this document by feature policy
We have built a custom viusalforce page (testpage) to fetch and update current geolocation coordinates on the contact object.
working fine on all the devices, but from the last one week, getting ...
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Retrieve Attributes of Mobile Push Locations
I was trying to use Mobile Push API to create Locations in Marketing Cloud. But I didn't understand how to use Location Attributes to pass Location-based parameters to the message context and/or ...
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How can i keep a track of someone visits the My site? [closed]
One item to be aware of the event is not triggered when a form is filled out but when someone visits the site. And when someone visit the my site in one day several times means how can i save/track ...
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Salesforce1 stopped supporting geolocation
I have a Visualforce page enabled for Lightning, which has one button that gets the geolocation in coordinates and shows the location in a Google map embedded in the page.
This was working until last ...
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Coordinates of few accounts are not updating on bulk insert and update through data loader
//Refactored code after getting inputs from @David
public void HandleAfterInsert(){
system.debug(LoggingLevel.DEBUG, '***Inside after insert- ' );
for(Account account : newAccs){
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Geolocation not working for certain locations
We have a strange issue with geolocations in Salesforce, We have activated the data integration and geolocation based on billing address. While this works well in many countries, it does appear that ...
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Spring '18 no longer supporting Order by Distance and geolocation type
I just noticed that one of my queries is no longer working in my sandbox after the Spring '18 has been applied to that sandbox.
In particular this is the error SF is returning:
[object Object]: 'mi')...
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Account Billing/Mailing lat and long values are not populated in test data from integration rules
I have setup the necessary Account Data Integration Rules for the billing address but in a test context these values are not being populated.
I can't find any documentation on when/how the values get ...
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navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition fails in Visualforce page
I ran into a rather bizarre issue today with the HTML5 Geolocation API. I'm working one a Visualforce page in Salesforce1 that grabs the user's current location and passes it up to an Apex Controller ...
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Order By clause using APEX Bind Variables in Geolocation SOQL gives GACK
So I was planning to use SOQL geolocation to fetch the nearest dealer to the location of our agent. To find nearest I am trying to use Order by clause along with geolocation. The SOQL is below
List&...
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Unable to fetch latitude & longitude in apex
i have a requirement to provide distance between two objects with latitude and longitude.
But i am getting null as per debug logs where i missed it.
Apex Class:
for (Opportunity opp:[Select Id,Name,...
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How to calculate distance between two records
I need to calculate distance between Lead and Account, but I get this error:
Method does not exist or incorrect signature: void
GEOLOCATION(Decimal, Decimal)
My code:
for(Lead ld:[Select Id,...
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Marketing Cloud SMS Push to users in market
We have some geofencing set up to push a message to users when they cross a boundary. We have a hurricane coming and we want to notify users who are in the city right now. Does anyone know of a way to ...
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Can't filter by geolocation field in SOQL [closed]
I'm trying to do a simple SOQL query to find all opportunities that have a null geolocation field, however, the query keeps blowing with:
Save error: field 'Coordinates__c' can not be filtered in ...
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Geo-coordinates on billing address for account object non-existent
I am using the built in geolocation feature for the account object to provide geolocations for my account, however on some accounts the geolocation is null despite having a valid address
To make ...
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How to populate a record's geolocation within Salesforce1?
I'm working in a developing nation in a social work context, so traditional addresses don't exist so we use GPS cords.
How would I capture geolocation data within the Salesforce1 from the user's ...
