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

[cannibalflea]

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:

AddressPart(Location, “address”)

Or just referencing the FullAddress() function of the field:

Location.FullAddress()

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

@cannibalflea

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).

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

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…

Hoping that map view gets some enhancements this year

Hope this helps!