Recently a prospective customer asked us to add a “half-height” map. We did that within a few days (as well as a 2x, 3x height map).
When using it though, I thought it took too long to use the menus to choose the right vehicle, etc.
I decided it would be really convenient to allow the user to “tear off” a vehicle from a location, alert, etc. dashlet.
Now you can just drag & drop ANY VEHICLE from any dashlet onto the dashboard to create an instant half-height “follow this vehicle” map:
Drag a vehicle to instantly create a half-height "follow this vehicle" map
As soon as you drop the “map” icon which is displayed, that vehicle is now displaying in a map which follows it, and shows all of the vehicles from the group associated with the dashlet you dragged it from (this was a complaint from the prospective customer about their current vendor — this type of map only showed the single vehicle):
Instantly create 5 maps just by dragging 5 vehicles to the dashboard
We let you show up to 8 maps per dashboard window. This took me 2 seconds per moving vehicle to create these maps using this new capability. We will start allowing other drag & drop capabilities on the dashboard now that we’ve started to use this type of functionality.
Really convenient! Remember, if you want to keep this particular layout, you need to save it or save as in the hierarchy save tools:
Save your Hierarchy Changes!
As usual, if you have any tips or requests for new capabilities or ideas, please let us know!
Thanks,
Rob.
