Bing Maps
allows you to visualize the markers based on the latitude and longitude data.
Figure: Default Bing maps visualization showing markers based on the configured latitude and longitude information
You need to follow these steps to get keys
,
Go to the Bing Maps Dev
Center at https://www.bingmapsportal.com/.
Register or sign in using your Microsoft account.
Select My keys
under My Account
.
Select the option to create a new key
.
Provide the required details in the following form,
To enable the bing maps in your enterprise build, you need to follow these steps.
Open the below mentioned file in your enterprise build location,
[Installed_Directory
\ Bold BI\Dashboard Designer\Web.config]
Set widget:bing_map:enable
key value as true.
Provide your bing maps key here.
Then launch your build and you find the bing maps in design panel.
NOTE: Before adding the Bing maps widget to the design layout, make sure to create the data source. You can refer to this section to learn how to create a new data source.
IMPORTANT: To showcase a Bing maps, a minimum requirement of
one latitude
andone longitude
fields are needed.
The following steps explains about data configuration of the Bing maps.
Drag and drop the Bing maps
control icon from the tool box into design panel. You can find control in tool box by search.
Resize the widget as required.
Click the Properties
icon in the configuration panel.
The properties panel of the widget will be displayed as shown in the following screenshot. Now, switch to the ASSIGN DATA
tab.
The data tab will be opened with available columns from the connected data source.
An element can be dragged from measure or dimension section.
Drag the elements from the Dimension
to Location Name
section.
Bing map will render as follows.
You can add more than one value to the Location Name
section. The alert message will be shown to enable the drill-down option.
Click Yes
to enable the option.
NOTE: If you click No
, a single value will be added to the Location Name
field(i.e. newly dropped column replace the existing one).
Figure: Bing-map with drilled view of the selected area.
Bind column by dragging and dropping the element from sections to Latitude
.
NOTE:
Drag and drop the elements from sections to Longitude
section.
NOTE:
Image: Bing maps widget after configuring the mandatory fields.
Drag and drop the elements from sections to Address
section. The field added here, will act as a address value.
Bing maps widget, after configuring the Address fields.
Drag and drop the elements from other sections to Postal Code
section. The field added here, will act as a postal code.
Image: Bing maps widget after configuring the Postal Code fields.
Drag and drop the elements from sections to Marker Tooltip
section. It will define the marker tooltip value in the bing maps. Also, it is an optional section.
Image: Bing maps widget after configuring the market tooltip field
Drag and drop the elements from sections to Marker Image
section. It will define the marker in the bing maps. Also, it is an optional section.
Image: Bing maps widget after configuring the marker Image field
You can filter
and sort
the data displayed in the widget from the settings menu options. To open the settings menu, click the settings
icon.
You can use Filters to change the values by selecting the Filter
option. For more details, refer to Measure filter and dimension filter.
You can format the Bing maps
for better illustration of the view that you require using the settings available in the Properties
tab.
This allows you to set title
for this Bing maps widget.
This allows you to set subtitle
for this Bing maps widget. It is optional.
This allows you to set brief explanation about this Bing maps widget. It is optional.
This allows you to toggle the theme of the bing maps.
Road Type
Aerial
Canvas Dark
Canvas Light
Gray Scale
This allow to show the zooming Icons in bing maps.
If you perform zoom in or zoom out using icons or mouse in design mode, then the same zoom level will be maintained in the view mode.
Zoom state in design mode.
Zoom state in view mode.
This allow to change the marker shapes of the bing maps.
Circle
Diamond
Star
Triangle
Image
This allow to upload the various type of Images.
Image: Bing maps widget after applying the marker Image settings
This allows to change the marker color of the bing maps.
This allows to change the marker size of the bing maps.
Markers can be customized based on the conditions and the fields by enabling the advance settings check box.
Based on measure field
Based on dimension field
You can render the bing maps markers based only on the address information. For that, there are two sections Address
and Postal Code
added in the field containers section as shown in the following image,
Drag and drop the required fields to the respective field containers to render the bing maps markers. You can drag and drop either the Address
field or Postal Code
field, or both the fields.
After that configurations
This section contains the property for bing maps container’s layout.
This allows you to customize the widget container appearance, widget title’s properties and provides options to enable/ disable widget exporting options. For more detailed information, refer to container appearance properties.