Pass User's Geolocation As Parameter

[juancoffee]

Hello Javascript Gurus out there

 

I have been trying (for quite a while) to generate a user's latitude and longitude on a report automatically - to use them with a distance search.

There are various topics on this forum (such as http://forums.caspio.com/index.php/topic/4205-html-block-to-detect-geo-location/?hl=geolocation), but none do quite what I want.

 

If I try and adapt any of them, passing them from a submission form as parameters for example, I get an error code 'number too long' when I try and use the latitude and longitude to search with.

 

Caspio's excellent Store Locator app does it with the mobile search, but it requires a button to be pressed ('Use my current location'). When I've tried to alter this to suit my needs, I've just ended up breaking it!

 

Ideally, I would like to put the javascript in the beginning of a report and automatically populate the latitude and longitude search fields.

In other words, a user would just open the report and it would automatically show venues closest to their current location (mobile or laptop), without them having to click anything.

 

Any help [very] greatly appreciated.

 

Duncan

 

 

 

[Jan]

Hello Duncan,

 

If I understand correctly, you can use the auto-submit code to "press" the button in the Store Locator app.

Does it work for you?

[juancoffee]

Ooh - that's a good idea!

I'll give it a try and see if it works...