Map

Use a Map object to display an image file in your scorecard (.jpg, .png, or .gif file) with links to web pages, status objects, functions, or other scorecard elements. When you click the link you move directly to the web page or the scorecard object.

 

Use your organization map or create and image in your favorite drawing software. Then load it into the system as a Resource to make it available to use as a Map. Then create a Map object and add links to the image.

How to add a Map object

To add a Map element to a scorecard object, right click the parent element to which it belongs, choose Add -> Miscellaneous -> Map.

Properties

 

General

• Name - the name "Map" is generated automatically but it may be changed

• Description - an optional text describing the object; displayed when you click Description in the drop-down for the object on the web

Configuration

• Image file - click the Icon button () and choose the image you wish to display from the list. Files must be uploaded via Resources to be available in the list.

   If the image is in .svg file format, use the Microsoft Edge or Mozilla Firefox browser to view it on Web.

• Alternative text - descriptive text for a screen reader to describe the object to a visually impaired user who relies on voice assistance on Web. The text displays also when the browser can't load the object.

  Corporater BMP supports plain, multi-line text in this field.

  If the property is empty, Corporater BMP uses the text in the equivalent property of the object’s parent, if available.

• Scale to fit - mark the box and the image map will be resized to fit the size of you browser window.

Visibility

Custom

Here you can add zones on the image and create image Map links. The different map zones that you define are listed on the left. The image is shown on the right, and by clicking on each zone in the list you can see where it is positioned in the image.

 

Add new map zones to the image by clicking the desired icon at the top. Then click on the image in the position you want to place the map zone. Then you can drag the corner markers to give it the desired size. Click and drag a zone to give it a different position.

 

Map zones

These types of map zones are available:

• a map zone with a link to an internal object

• a map zone with a link to a function and display the result of that function

• a map zone with a link to a status object and display the status gauge

• a map zone with a link to a trend and display the trend

• a map zone with a link to an object with Progress and display it

• a map zone with a link to a risk factor and display the risk factor

• a line with the status color of the status gauge connected to it

• a rectangle with the status color of the status gauge connected to it

• a circle with the status color of the status gauge connected to it

• a triangle with the status color of the status gauge connected to it

• a line

• a rectangle

• a circle

• a triangle

• a map zone with a link to a chart and display the chart

• a map zone with a link to a table and display the table

   For optimum results, Corporater recommends you don't link a table-type object to a map.

• a map zone with a link to an external web page

• a text box for showing text - the text may also contain dynamic (token) tags

• Snap to grid - mark the box to be able to place objects on a fixed, invisible grid

 Scorecard objects, e.g. Status, Functions, etc., may be selected from the BMP model or the Template model. If an object that is selected from the Template model is linked to an object on the same scorecard as the Map, clicking on the map zone will take you to that object. However, if the template does not have a link to that scorecard, clicking on the Map entry will not take you anywhere.

 

Some or all of the following properties can be set on map zones. The properties that are available depend on the type of map zone.

 

Name

• Show name - check the box to display the name of the entry in the image map

• Override name - enter a text to display instead of the object name. Show name must be checked.

• Alignment - where the name should be placed in the zone: North, West, East, South or Center

• Font - change the font and font size used in the name

• Font color - click the Edit button () and choose Colors and the color you want to use

 

Configuration - in addition to the object to show, such as Trend, Progress, Risk, Chart, Table:

• Linked to - the object that this link should take the user to when clicked. Template objects may also be selected. Click the Edit button () and choose the object to link to.

• Disable link - makes it possible to display values without creating a link to an object.

• Open link in new window

• Function - click the Edit button () and choose a function; Template functions may also be chosen

• Status - click the Edit button () and choose a status; Template statuses may also be chosen

• Status icon - select the type of icon to use: status gauge or bullet

• Shape color - click the Edit button () and choose Colors and then the color you want

• URL - enter a URL to an external web page

• Text - enter a text that is to be displayed in the Map

• Wrap text - mark the box if you want the text to be wrapped - divided into several lines

• Text color - click the Edit button () and choose Colors and then the color you want

Size and position

Each map zone is given an icon that indicates the type of map zone, and a click zone that can also contain the name of the object. You can specify the size and position of these zones by changing the values below, or you can move and change the size directly in the image. The properties available will be changed depending on which object you select. Some examples of available properties are:

• Click zone X-coordinate - the X coordinate of the click zone's top left-hand corner

• Click zone Y-coordinate - the Y coordinate of the click zone's top left-hand corner

• Click zone width - the width of the clickable area

• Click zone height - the height of the clickable area

• Image X-coordinate - the X coordinate of the image's top left-hand corner

• Image Y-coordinate - the Y coordinate of the image's top left-hand corner

• Image width - width of the image that is used as icon

• Image height - height of the image that is used as icon

• End X - the point on the X-axis where a line ends

• End Y - the point on the Y-axis where a line ends

A line is drawn between two points. The start point is defined by Click zone X-coordinate and Click zone Y-coordinate and the end point is defined by End X and End Y. A line can be completely vertical, by the placing start point and end point directly above and below each other, or completely horizontal. But it is not possible to move the end point to the left of the start point or the start point to the right of the end point.

 

If Remember tab selection when navigating in Serttings/Portal options is checked, you will always be directed to the same tab the Map object is on when you navigate to a scorecard object by clicking a Map link, if the object you are moving to has that tab, even if that object is on a different tab.  

Lifetime

 

Layout

Features

• Show tools - displays the Function menu next to the name of the page that contains the map on Web.

• Visible - select how the map displays on Web on a page and in any other page element that includes it, such as the breadcrumb, the organization tree, search results, filtered lists, maps, reports, and workflow items. 

  • Visible

  • Not visible

  • Only visible for Admin - displays the map on Web only for users with Administrator rights.

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