Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Integrating/Invoking Google Maps on Dynamics AX Customer Address Form

Last week, over the lunch time, I was chatting with some of my colleagues regarding Dynamics AX and Map Integration, Till then, I was not aware of the fact that in Dynamics AX 2009 Address form we already have a "Map" button which invokes the Bing maps as shown here











But, Bing was not able to provide us the proper location for some addresses which Google Maps could provide - Food for thought for the Bing devs/SDE's.

I was curious to see the Code Behind the "Map" button, which led me to the SmmUtility Class > mapIt method.

Then, next step was to find out how to invoke Google Maps by passing query string in the url, My best friend Google never lets me down :-) and I hit upon this wonderful site which shows how to pass different query string parameters in the url http://www.querystring.org/google-maps/google-maps-query-string-parameters

From there on it was pretty straightforward, following code snippet helped me to show up the google maps








Thatz it! Pretty easy, rite? :-).
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 5, 2010 at 3:51 PM

    Thanks, never thought of that. I also did a "directions" button sending info from CompanyInfo. So that you could get directions to the address direct.

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  2. Islam BasicsJanuary 2, 2015 at 5:44 PM

    Same as can you also guide how can we replace the bing map with google map in AX role centers?

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  3. DilipJanuary 19, 2015 at 5:12 PM

    I have not done this but in my opinion you would need to customize the web part user control VS and write some .Net code to achieve the same

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