As requested by some of the members here, I added another option in my CSV2JSON tool to allow URLs and NavBar Titles to be imported to be added to the created map data file. Read about it here: http://idevdepot.com/?p=286

Looks a real handy tool. Little question, are the URLs opened by a web view in the app or with safari ? Thanks,

They open up the same way that buzztouch opens a Custom URL screen. The only difference (and this is a bonus!), it doesn't count against your # of pages in your project. Normally, you would have to create a URL Screen with the website you want them to be forwarded to. Then create a map item that points to that screen using a loadScreenWithItemId or loadScreenWithNickName With this tool, it creates a screen dynamically based upon the URL you give it, thus saving you a step (or in some cases, hundreds of steps!)

Thanks Stobe, pizza on it's way. I read about the problem with screen id's, but you think it's possible to link to bt screens in the future ?

Link from a map to a BT screen? Or from HTML to BT screen?

Map to bt screen. You got html to bt screen to work ?

I've seen several discussions about html to BT screen. Maybe for my next project :) But I can probably get map to BT working in the next update of my tool. It would require a column in the spreadsheet with either the nickname of the screen, or the itemID.

Pizza ordered...all went fine thanks. Having an extra column would be great for screen ids. I think we would only have to look in the bt config.txt to find the id generated. Not sure though.

Yep, finding the ID is easy. Putting them all in a spreadsheet is the tedious part :) Thanks! Show us your results when you've got a map page powered by Stobe!

Great, Stobe.. Pizza is sent!

Hi again, Been busy for some time so I hadn't had a chance to try out this tool in earnest and this is just a short line to express my sincere kudos'!! Great tool! Works just like i wanted it to! Thanks, Stobe! Regards, Kristian, Copenhagen

Thanks for the kind words Kristian! I'm finishing up some needed added features for the Quiz Maker tool, then I'll be back to work adding some new stuff to the Map tool next.

Stobe, Now I am ready to use the tool. Had got it a couple of months ago, and did a quick test. Looks like you have updated it to include option to include loadscreen object using screen nickname - which will be awesome! I created a sample with 3 points following docs online. When running the project (Simulator IOS7) when the map tries to display the points- I get a "There was a problem parsing some JSON data. Please make sure it is well-formed". (Same result whether the file is in App or from URL (DropBox). CSV File: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7kqobl0svo73w7y/Test_3_MapLocations.csv JSON File: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gxl98qpkn97fszv/MapData_Test_Scratch.txt Can you see what is wrong??? - Thanks! Question: Once I get it working... A question is what if you did not want to include either a screen or url with one of the points- what would you change? (Any way easier than including dummy data in csv and deleting from txt) Thanks, Kevin

Try copying and pasting the below into a test text file and link to it. If it works, I can tell you how to fix the problem. And I'm not sure what your other question is about. Do you mean you want map pins, but no links or info assigned to them? -Chris {"childItems":[{"itemId":"11111111", "itemType":"BT_mapLocation","latitude":"36.085651", "longitude":"-79.830852", "title":"Greeensboro", "subTitle":"February 18, 2014","loadScreenObject": {"itemNickname": "Scratch Off", "itemId": "21111111", "itemType": "BT_screen_webView", "navBarTitleText": "Greeensboro", "dataURL": "http://google.com"}},{"itemId":"11111112", "itemType":"BT_mapLocation","latitude":"35.824852", "longitude":"-78.649776", "title":"Raleigh", "subTitle":"April 7, 2014","loadScreenObject": {"itemNickname": "Scratch Off", "itemId": "21111112", "itemType": "BT_screen_webView", "navBarTitleText": "Raleigh", "dataURL": "http://yahoo.com"}},{"itemId":"11111113", "itemType":"BT_mapLocation","latitude":"35.07024", "longitude":"-78.958146", "title":"Fayetteville", "subTitle":"June 7, 2014","loadScreenObject": {"itemNickname": "Scratch Off", "itemId": "21111113", "itemType": "BT_screen_webView", "navBarTitleText": "Fayetteville", "dataURL": "http://usatoday.com"}}]}

Thanks for the quick reply. I did not compare the JSON to see what was different, but the replacement JSON not work- same error. (BT v3 project Hosted by BuzzTouch)

So I looked a little closer at what you sent. Ran a JSON validation on the original, and it said the same thing about the two missing commas. Validates the new file identical to what you posted, but still same error?

Wondering since the JSON for childitems is ok, if the problem is actually in the BT_config.txt after it is referenced. Is the last "childItems": [] that BT adds correct since we are already including in the Screen Data URL? Here is the section from the BT_config.txt: { "itemId": "myItemId", "itemType": "BT_screen_map", "itemNickname": "Map", "navBarTitleText": "Map", "showUserLocation": "0", "showUserLocationButton": "1", "defaultMapType": "standard", "showMapTypeButtons": "1", "showRefreshButton": "0", "singleLocationDefaultZoom": "15", "dataURL": "https://www.dropbox.com/s/u7qe6nri31487oq/MapData_Chris.txt", "childItems": [] }

Well after filling up your mailbox, I am wondering if after the initial missing "," format error the rest of the problems are on V3. Stobe can you update the CSVto JSON tool to add the colon, and let me know if I should swing this over to the V3 bug fix section... https://www.dropbox.com/s/5kk21zhiuvs62zu/Map%20locations%20thru%20Control%20Panel.pdf Thanks, Kevin I will add one more post regarding features ;)

Enhancements (how is that for positive thinking ;) 1) Can you add PinColor as a valid value in the CSV that will be converted for each item. 2) When working now it looks like every item would have a screen and URL. Would it be possible by leaving xls-csv value for URL blank or some designation that no URL info would be generated? Thanks

Ok. Lots to investigate, lol. Let me find some time to dig into these questions and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. If you don't hear back in a reasonable time, feel free to bump this thread, or PM me with a link to this thread to remind me. -Chris