module: how to create my own marker / how to customize marker

[plunk]

How to create my own marker, how to customize marker?

The joomla standard marker: boring! I want one of my own. 

I guess I start choosing Marker colour. Tried that, but only orange works. The marker is coming from Google, not an image from my own website.

Thanks!

[ste]

Hi plunk, could you please give me a link?

[plunk]

Hi Ste,
Thanks for assisting!

Plugin:
http://www.allergie-weg.nl/index.php/adres/raalte-sowelu-kinese-praktijk-voor-toegepaste-kinesiologie-ewa-lewandowska.html

Module:
http://www.allergie-weg.nl/index.php/2009052918/algemeen/adres-2.html

The errors you see there were probably somehow caused by myself. I had nice maps, everything went well untill... (what???). I have to find out what.


This one looks nice:
http://www.allergie-weg.nl/index.php/adres/arnhem-praktijk-monique-croes.html

So I wonder what makes the difference. But maybe I should try to solve this under another new topic. Topic here is about the shape of the marker.

[ste]

In the plugin is no possible to choose the marker, only in the module.
For the errors, did you modified a file of ContentMap?

[plunk]

I probably did. I reïnstalled the plugin and now everything works like a charm (except for altering markers).

Next step I did was reïnstalling the module and see if markers are changeable now. I noticed there are images of markers in the module-directory, so it seems logic that I can alter one of them and create my own marker.

This time i choose Yellow. Here is the result.

http://www.allergie-weg.nl/index.php/2009052918/algemeen/adres-2.html

This is where the markers comes from:
<img id="mtgt_unnamed_0" style="border: 0px none ; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 20px; height: 34px; -moz-user-select: none; position: absolute; left: 247px; top: 242px; z-index: -166967488; cursor: pointer;" src="http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/nl_ALL/mapfiles/transparent.png"/>

Don't worry about the dark shadow: they are multiple markers on 1 spot.

[ste]

ok, if you have sef activated you need to set the parameter IN CASE OF SEF ACTIVATED, there are 3 options

[plunk]

In case of SEF activated

• Top-level item
• Submenu item of first level with Sef activated
• Submenu item of second level with Sef activated

(Maybe you should alter "item" into "menu-item".)

Your manual instructs:
If you have SEF activeted in your site and the module is displayed in a page reachable from a menu of first or second level, it's necessary to change this parameter.

Maybe you would better replace
"change this parameter"
by
"choose 'Submenu item of first level with Sef activated' or 'Submenu item of second level with Sef activated'"

I tried both options... saved and tested, still only shadows. Even tried changing it back to 'top level item'. Finally I set it to 'first level'... only shadows. 

[ste]

ok I'll follow your suggestion for the manual.
I think it's a sef problem, try to disable and look if you see the markers

[plunk]

I disabled sef in configurationfile: no effect
I disabled sef plugin: no effect
I disabled component sh404SEF: now i can have yellow markers as well. i don't know yet if these markers come from my own module-img-directorie, so I don't know yet if markers are customizable now.

Checking furter another day.
Have a nice day!

[ste]

Hi plunk, if you see yellow markers, they are in your own module-img-directorie

[plunk]

Okay, I will check.
But do i want to disable component sh404SEF in order to be able to customise my marker???

Maybe I can disable component sh404SEF partially for this article or category. Didn't try yet. Tomorrow I will.

[ste]

Changing manually the paths in ContentMap files you should make it work. Now path are dinamically generated and probably don't work with sh404SEF

[plunk]

I allready saw the yellow markers, tomorrow I will proceed following your instructions Ste. Once customised my markers I will inform you here.

Thanks!

[plunk]

I checked sh404SEF Configuration, but in "Apply to which categories", it is not applied to my "marker-categorie". So why does it still effect the markers?

"Changing manually the paths in ContentMap files you should make it work." Can you be more specific?

Thanks!

[plunk]

You are Joomla-experts, please rewrite your manuals so even Joomla-starters can understand. Maybe you can use this:

Let's asume someone created a new category for all the articles that will have a googlemap and marker and called that category "cat-contentmap".

    * create a new menu item Layout category list and set the parameter Description on Show

I guess you mean:
    * create a new menu item Layout category list, go to Parameters (Advanced) and set 'Pagination' to 'show' or set 'Display Select' to 'Show'

    * in Position parameter of the ContentMap module write a non existing position, i.e. mappa (this is a special selectbox, in this case you you don't need to choose, but you have to write in it)

    * in Category ID parameter write the ID of the category

    * in Content > Category Manager select the category and call this position (in this example 'mappa') within a category, insert the code &lt;p&gt;Your Browser should show you our Turismo.eu.&lt;br /&gt;You can show this content here: &lt;a href="http://www.turismo.eu/codice.html"&gt;Turismo.eu&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; in category's description.

You mean:
Go to content / category-manager / pick your category (for example 'cat-contentmap') and insert the next code into the description-html:

<p>Your Browser should show you our Turismo.eu.
You can show this content here: Turismo.eu.</p>

&lt;p&gt; = <p> etc...

This is like chinees: 
"call this position (in this example 'mappa') within a category"...

Another dutchman mailed me asking: do you now what they mean in their instructions. Thats why I write this comment here.
I hope you take advantage of these notes so lots of people can benefit.

[plunk]

Where is this piece of code generated?

<img id="mtgt_unnamed_0" style="border: 0px none ; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 20px; height: 34px; -moz-user-select: none; position: absolute; left: 235px; top: 192px; z-index: -169113440; cursor: pointer;" src="http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/nl_ALL/mapfiles/marker.png"/>

Because I would like to alter this part:
http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/nl_ALL/mapfiles/marker.png

Thanks!

[ste]

    * create a new menu item Layout category list and set the parameter Description on Show

I guess you mean:
    * create a new menu item Layout category list, go to Parameters (Advanced) and set 'Pagination' to 'show' or set 'Display Select' to 'Show'

No I didn't meant that. There's no need to set any parameter, now I've deleted this sentence 'and set the parameter Description on Show'

    * in Position parameter of the ContentMap module write a non existing position, i.e. mappa (this is a special selectbox, in this case you you don't need to choose, but you have to write in it)

ok modified

   

* in Category ID parameter write the ID of the category

    * in Content > Category Manager select the category and call this position (in this example 'mappa') within a category, insert the code &lt;p&gt;Your Browser should show you our Turismo.eu.&lt;br /&gt;You can show this content here: &lt;a href="http://www.turismo.eu/codice.html"&gt;Turismo.eu&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; in category's description.

You mean:
Go to content / category-manager / pick your category (for example 'cat-contentmap') and insert the next code into the description-html:

ok modified

<p>Your Browser should show you our Turismo.eu.
You can show this content here: Turismo.eu.</p>

&lt;p&gt; = <p> etc...

This is like chinees: 

now it works, probably I copied the code without verifing it was working

Another dutchman mailed me asking: do you now what they mean in their instructions. Thats why I write this comment here.
I hope you take advantage of these notes so lots of people can benefit.

Yes, thanks for your notes, now I hope the instructions are more clear 

[plunk]

I still can not customize my marker. And I really need to, because if you put 1000 google-markers on a Dutch map, it turns totally orange. We Dutch like orange, but there is a limit 

[Brigante88]

Ciao ste, scusami se mi intrometto nel topic, purtroppo di inglese capisco poco ... però da quello che mastico mi pare che plunk abbia il mio stesso problema:

Dopo l'installazione del componente sh404SEF, la contentmap si comporta in modo strano, cioè si vedono solo le ombre dei marcatori (vedi allegato); però se clicco sopra alle ombre funziona normalmente ma non si vedono i marcatori.
C'è qualche bug con il SEF?

grazie per la tua disponiblità

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[alexred]

Ciao Brigante88,
non c'è compatibilità con il componente sh404SEF ma solo con il componente SEO nativo di Joomla.