[Resolved] Maps – how to make a custom term field the source for a marker?

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[kai-peterW]

I have a custom post type “projects” with a taxonomy “countries”. The taxonomy “countries” has custom term fields. One custom term field is an address field, just for the country.

Now I want to show on a world map a marker for all available countries (the custom term field).
It is a view block and editing with the block editor.

But this term field is not available as the source for the marker. Available are only custom address fields of the custom post type “projects” but no custom term fields.

A workaround would be to assign all “projects” (hundreds) an additional address field. But it would be much more effective to pull in the custom term field of the related taxonomy (a few).

How to make a custom term address field a source for the marker?

[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

Can you please share where exactly you would like to add the map using the custom term field as a source on what page/post and using what view?

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[Minesh]

The thing is that there is no way to display the term field under the "Fields" dropdown.

But workaround would be, i've created the following view that query the taxonomy Country:
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And within this taxonomy view's loop editor , i've added the marker shortcode as given under:

<wpv-loop>
          [wpv-map-marker map_id='map-3' marker_id='marker-[wpv-post-id]' marker_termmeta='wpcf-country-google-address'][/wpv-map-marker]
</wpv-loop>

And then added the above view using the shortcode block within your block view:
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[wpv-view name="display-marker-belongs-country"]

Can you please check now: hidden link

Can you please confirm it works as expected.

[kai-peterW]

Hi Minesh, thank you very much for your help.
Yes, this works as expected. Great.
Also the filtering for the second taxonomy "program" works.
It works at least on the front end.

At the preview (block editor) back end no markers are shown on the world map.
And I am missing at the maps block the ability to create a pop-up block for the markers.

Could this also be done by some shortcodes in the loop editor of the view "display-marker-belongs-country" ??

Have a nice day.

Regards,

Kai Peter

[Minesh]

At the preview (block editor) back end no markers are shown on the world map.
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Yes, this is expected, as we do not added the map marker using map block but using another view.

And I am missing at the maps block the ability to create a pop-up block for the markers.
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Whatever marker related changes you want you need to add it within the following view's loop output section, as the map marker is displayed from there.
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For now, I've addded post title using shortcode [wpv-post-title] as marker popup content.

 [wpv-map-marker map_id='map-3' marker_id='marker-[wpv-post-id]' marker_termmeta='wpcf-country-google-address']
          		[wpv-post-title]
          [/wpv-map-marker]

Whatever you want to display as marker popup youo should add it where I've added the [wpv-post-title]shortcode.

[kai-peterW]

Hi Minesh. Great. You answered exactly what I need to know. Perfect.
Now I know where to work on the output and can try different ideas to work out.
Thanks again.

Have a nice rest of day. Greetings from Hamburg, Germany.
Kai Peter

[Minesh]

Glad to know that the solution I shared help you to resolve your issue. You are welcome to mark resolve this ticket.

[kai-peterW]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!