Template:Zh GoogleMap Description Placemark

Creating Placemark

We turn to the tab "Placemarks".

Enter the number of markers bound to a specific map.

Coordinates it is convenient to choose by dragging the marker (the value is automatically substituted in the form fields ) or by clicking the mouse on the desired location.

On the other hand you can use Autocomplete field above map to find your place.

Placemark properties

Title	Placemark Title
Description	Description
Addition HTML text	HTML text, that will be included in placemark Be careful, if you enter email address, the other Joomla! plugin it changed, and there will be an error and map will not be shown. In this way, you can copy code, that produced by plugin and paste into HTML text, and in this case plugin will not change it.
Published	Published
Latitude	Latitude
Longitude	Longitude
Address	Text address of your placemark. You can load your data into this field, if you don't have lat|lng data. In this case address will be automatically geocoded and markers are displayed. And in backend marker will be shown too. But if you move marker (change position by dragging or clicking somewhere else), new positions will be stored as lat|lng. Displaying markers by lat|lng is more quick because there is no need time for geocoding
Map Title	Title of the map, where marker would be displayed
Placemark Group	Placemark Group
Category	The category that this placemark is assigned to

Appearance properties

Icon Type	Icon Type
Marker	Marker Type No - Do not show marker Drop - Marker with animation (Drop) Bounce - Marker with animation (Bounce) Simple - Marker without animation
Open InfoWin	Open InfoWin immediately for this placemark
InfoWin Content	Content of InfoWin Title and Description Title Description None
Action by Click	Action by Click on this placemark Open InfoWin Open Link - link, that entered in URL Site field Open Link in new page None
Zoom by Click	Zoom by Click on this placemark You can change zoom when you click on marker Do not change - zoom is not changed
URL Site	Site URL to display in placemark
Site Name	Site Name to display instead of URL
URL Image	Image URL to display in placemark
Start Publishing	Placemark start publishing date
Finish Publishing	Placemark finish publishing date

Hidden Attributes for Customization

It is for you own customization. You can enter any values in this fields, and use what you want in you code. You can rename prompt in language file

For your convenience you can also change the labels of the fields in file

/administrator/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_zhgooglemap.ini

lines

COM_ZHGOOGLEMAP_MAPMARKER_DETAIL_ATTRIBUTE1_LABEL

COM_ZHGOOGLEMAP_MAPMARKER_DETAIL_ATTRIBUTE2_LABEL

…

COM_ZHGOOGLEMAP_MAPMARKER_DETAIL_ATTRIBUTE9_LABEL

Placemark Customization

Copy your marker images (format PNG) in the directory

/administrator/components/com_zhgooglemap/assets/icons/

Component will automatically pick up the picture when choosing the type of marker.

The only requirement - the file extension have to be a .png ie in lower case, because names of images stored in a database without the extension, and it is appended in the output.

Placemark Grouping

The marker may be included in one group, for this to specify a marker belonging to the group. If the field of markers grouping is set (field value Placemark Group Control is different from No), then starts an additional feature: a list of active groups (the location is determined by this same field, with the first four (left, top, right, bottom) correspond to the table form of representation, while the two latter (Group-Map, Map-Group) - based on the div, and you have the opportunity to do anything with them.

The map also has a drop-down list Placemark Group CSS - which implements the following functionality:

• the first two styles - predefined, and are in a file in the folder

/administrator/components/com_zhgooglemap/assets/css/markergroups.css

• the third - you can override it in your css-file template
• while in three cases, just have three different names of objects, respectively, we can change the styles they like.

The following names

for the div-tag ID takes the value

• GMapsMenu-advanced
• GMapsMenu-simple
• GMapsMenu-external

for ul-tag

• zhgm-menu-advanced
• zhgm-menu-simple
• zhgm-menu-external

Accordingly, styles, prescribes for them. Field Show Placemark Group Icon is used to display icons in the list of groups.