# Location Field UI/UX - Copy and Paste/Clickability Improvements

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/location-field-ui-ux-copy-and-paste-clickability-improvements/5895>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Created:** [February 23, 2024, 4:28am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/location-field-ui-ux-copy-and-paste-clickability-improvements/5895 "2024-02-23T04:28:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![billyjackson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/billyjackson/32/6345_2.png) [@billyjackson](https://community.fibery.io/u/billyjackson)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 4:28am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/location-field-ui-ux-copy-and-paste-clickability-improvements/5895/1 "2024-02-23T04:28:30Z")

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Currently, the location field has some strange behaviors.

1. In the side panel (on the desktop app), I am unable to select the text in order to copy it.
2. In Table view, copying the Location Field copies a code object that - when pasted, looks like the following:

> {“latitude”:34.269314,“longitude”:-118.594948,“fullAddress”:“21217 Nashville Street, Chatsworth, California 91311, United States”,“addressParts”:{“place”:“Chatsworth”,“region”:“California”,“address”:“Nashville Street”,“country”:“United States”,“district”:“Los Angeles County”,“postcode”:“91311”}}

This is useful for copying the Location information from table cell to table cell, which is excellent for **input** , but not very good for **information retrieval** , where I frequently want to A) copy and paste an address into an email/shipping information/search, and B) see where the location is on a map.

I would love to see the following improvements:

1. Copy/Paste behavior that allows me to quickly extract the address from the location field and paste it elsewhere - both from the side bar and table views - such that I get the same text I see displayed. (in the above example, just the 21217 Nashville Street, Chatsworth, California 91311, United States part.
2. Clickable Map-View. Because Fibery already has a built in Map for collections, I’d love to be able to click on any **single** location and see it as a pin in the built-in Map view.

Number 1 is a frequent frustration. Number 2 would be a “nice-to-have” but certainly not a need to have.

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**Author:** ![cannibalflea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/cannibalflea/32/318_2.png) [@cannibalflea](https://community.fibery.io/u/cannibalflea)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 6:43am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/location-field-ui-ux-copy-and-paste-clickability-improvements/5895/2 "2024-02-23T06:43:38Z")

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Your first suggestion is a good one, especially in the entity view. I think it is great that you can copy a location from one cell to another so hoping that won’t change. But there might be an opportunity to have a right-click menu option for copying the address text.

As a workaround for now, you might want to define a formula field that extracts the address as text:

Either using `AddressPart()` [function](https://the.fibery.io/@public/User_Guide/Guide/Location-Field-163/anchor=How-to-extract-Country,-City,-and-other--68265e2f-b0b0-4952-8221-fdc052eb4247):

```auto
AddressPart(Location, “address”)

```

Or just referencing the `FullAddress()` [function](https://the.fibery.io/@public/User_Guide/Guide/Formulas-Reference-44/anchor=FullAddress--741edbbe-01ae-4335-b099-a9e41eaba56d) of the field:

```auto
Location.FullAddress()

```

With respect your second suggestion, I think we are asking for the same thing:

> [@Map View Enhancements](https://community.fibery.io/t/map-view-enhancements/4745/1):
>
> **Single location view**  
> When users enter a location in the location field, there is no way for them to be able to visualize the location within the entity field. Map views require collections which makes it hard to verify that the location input is correct. It would be great if you could have a map widget that would visualize a particular location field within the entity view (either in the sidebar or the main area).
> 
> ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/6/6651ffd2b4de4a5f02f7d83166755ad3971daede.png)

This is unfortunately not the solution to your problem. However, you might be able to to get by with the work around I proposed in this post:

> [@Map View Enhancements](https://community.fibery.io/t/map-view-enhancements/4745/4):
>
> Very interesting solution. It does work. I use a similar approach to confirm locations using Google Maps. However, I just use a formula field with the following formula: "http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&q=loc:" + ToText(Location.Latitude()) + "+" + ToText(Location.Longitude()) Assuming Location is the name of the Location Field. If you set the formula field type to URL, then it will give you a hyperlink to Google Maps. You might also be interested [in this discussion we are having to make thes…](https://community.fibery.io/t/better-ux-for-opening-external-urls/1415)

Hoping that map view gets some enhancements this year 🙂

Hope this helps!

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**Author:** ![billyjackson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/billyjackson/32/6345_2.png) [@billyjackson](https://community.fibery.io/u/billyjackson)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/location-field-ui-ux-copy-and-paste-clickability-improvements/5895/3 "2024-02-23T18:48:11Z")

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This is great, and completely agree.  
Also, love that google maps formula in the other thread. I’m gonna steal that pronto!