Add a Google Map to Your Form

This Google Map field enables you to add one or more interactive maps to your form. The form user clicks on the map and the latitude and longitude of the map is stored in the submission.

Demo

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Setup

The Google Map field uses the Google Maps JavaScript API for the mapping feature and the Places API for the map search feature (optional).

Before you start using the Maps JavaScript API, you need a Google project with a billing account. You will also need to enable Google Maps JavaScript API and, optionally the Google Places API.

To learn more, see Get Started with Google Maps Platform.

Once you have the billing account and APIs enabled, you will need to create an API key. To learn more, see Get an API Key. We recommend restricting your key to your production and development hostnames.

To enter your key into WS Form:

Click Settings from the WS Form admin menu.
Click the Advanced tab.
Enter your API key into the ‘Google Maps JS’ setting.
Click Save.

Once the key has been added and saved you can add the Google Map field to your form.

To learn how to add, edit, clone, move, resize, offset, or delete a Google Map field, please click here.

Field Settings

To edit the settings for this field type, click the settings icon on the field itself. Click the Save & Close or Save button to save your changes. If you do not want to save your changes, you can click the Cancel button or click any other form element to close the field settings sidebar.

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Basic
Advanced

Basic

The basic tab contains settings that the majority of WS Form users will need to control a field. The settings are as follows:

Label

This is the label shown alongside the field. As well as entering a label into this field, you can also double click the label of the field in the editor. You should enter an easy-to-understand label for your field, for example ‘First Name’ or ‘Email’.

Show Label

If enabled the label will be shown on your form. If you do not want the label to appear for a particular field, uncheck this box.

Required

If checked, the Google Map field must be clicked on by the user.

Hidden

If checked the field will be hidden on the form. It can be shown again using conditional logic or your own JavaScript.

Help Text

The help text setting enables you to add smaller text under the field to assist the website visitor in completing that field.

WS Form variables can be entered into this field.

Map

Auto Center

The auto center setting can be used to automatically center the map to the users location. To enable this feature, choose one of the geolocation methods:

Browser Geolocation (Uses the location provided by the browser. More accurate but user is prompted to allow location sharing).
IP Geolocation (Less accurate. User is not prompted).

Both methods are processed client-side, no data is passed to the server to provide this functionality.

Latitude

Enter the default latitude for the map. This setting is used to position the map but does not set the position set by the user. It must be used in conjunction with the longitude setting.

Longitude

Enter the default longitude for the map. This setting is used to position the map but does not set the position set by the user. This setting must be used in conjunction with the latitude setting.

Zoom

Enter the default zoom level for the map. If you do not enter a value in this setting, it will be set to 14. This value typically ranges from 1 – 20 but some areas of the world allow for higher zoom levels.

Type

There are four different types of map you can choose from:

Road Map
Satellite
Hybrid (A combination of road map and satellite)
Terrain

Use this setting to choose the type of map you want to display.

Search Field

It is possible to use a field such as a text field as an address search field. The address search field can be used to enter a zip or full address to find a location on the map. Simply add a text field to your form (e.g. above the map) and then use this setting to select that field.

Controls

Map Type

Enable or disable the map type control on the map.

Full Screen

Enable or disable the full screen control on the map.

Street View

Enable or disable the street view control on the map.

Zoom

Enable or disable the zoom control on the map.

Marker

The marker indicates where the user has clicked on the map.

Icon Title

Enter the title for the marker, e.g. ‘Selected location’.

Icon URL

Enter a URL or a base 64 encoded data string into this setting to change the marker icon.

Accessibility

ARIA Label

Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) defines ways to make web content and web applications more accessible to people with disabilities.

This setting enables you to define what text is made available to ARIA applications. This would, for example, provide a screen reader with specific text to read to someone with a disability.

The value of this setting defaults to your field label. If you would like to change this, enter a new value.

WS Form variables can be entered into this field.

Exclusions

Exclude From Emails

By default, WS Form uses the #email_submission variable in email templates. This provides a simple way of displaying all of the submitted fields in emails. Sometimes there might be a need to exclude a field from an email, for example, you might want to not include some introductory copy on a form, or hide a field you’re using with conditional logic to show or hide an element.

To hide a field from emails, check this box.

Other WS Form add-ons may add exclusions in this section too, such as the WooCommerce add-on which allows you to exclude certain fields from the cart entries.

Hidden Behavior

Always Include in Actions

This setting allows you to change the behavior of a field if the hidden setting is checked (See above), or if you set a field as hidden using conditional logic.

The normal behavior for a field that has been hidden is that it will not be included if an action has a ‘Clear Hidden Fields’ setting enabled. For example, if you have a ‘Send Email‘ action, WS Form will not include fields that are hidden.

If this setting is checked, this field will always be included in actions if it is hidden.

Advanced

The advanced tab contains additional form attribute settings that provide further control over how a field is rendered.

Styles

Use the ‘Styles’ settings to change the design of the Google Map field.

Label Position

There are five positions you can choose from for your label:

Default
Top
Left
Right
Bottom

The default position will place the label set in the form settings advanced tab. For new forms this will be the ‘Top’ positioning.

Note that when using some frameworks some label positions may not be available.

Label Width

If your label position is set to left or right, you can specify how wide the label will be. You can consider the overall width of the label and the field to be 12 columns (or whatever value is set in Form Settings). By default, labels are rendered at 3 columns wide (1/4 width), which means the field itself is 9 columns wide (3/4 width). You can change the width of the label using this setting.

To change the default width of all labels in your form:

1. Click the form settings icon.
2. Click the Advanced tab.
3. Scroll down to ‘Default Label Width’ and change the setting.
4. Click Save at the bottom.

Vertical Alignment

The vertical alignment option allows you to choose how this field will be vertically aligned in relation to fields in the same row. The options are:

Top
Middle
Bottom

Horizontal Alignment

The horizontal alignment setting allows you to choose how the icons are horizontally aligned. The options are:

Left
Center
Right
Space Around (The space around each icon is the same)
Space Between (The space between each icon is the same)
Space Evenly (The space before, between and after each icon is the same)

Height

Enter a height for the Google Map. You can either enter a height in pixels (e.g. 400px) or enter a percentage (e.g. 100% for a square). The percentage value is relative to the width of the map.

Style

Apply customized styling through an embedded JSON style declaration. Enter your JavaScript style array here. Learn more.

An example of the JSON used for the styled map above:

[
    {
        "featureType": "all",
        "elementType": "geometry.fill",
        "stylers": [
            {
                "weight": "2.00"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "featureType": "all",
        "elementType": "geometry.stroke",
        "stylers": [
            {
                "color": "#9c9c9c"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "featureType": "all",
        "elementType": "labels.text",
        "stylers": [
            {
                "visibility": "on"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "featureType": "landscape",
        "elementType": "all",
        "stylers": [
            {
                "color": "#f2f2f2"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "featureType": "landscape",
        "elementType": "geometry.fill",
        "stylers": [
            {
                "color": "#ffffff"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "featureType": "landscape.man_made",
        "elementType": "geometry.fill",
        "stylers": [
            {
                "color": "#ffffff"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "featureType": "poi",
        "elementType": "all",
        "stylers": [
            {
                "visibility": "off"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "featureType": "road",
        "elementType": "all",
        "stylers": [
            {
                "saturation": -100
            },
            {
                "lightness": 45
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "featureType": "road",
        "elementType": "geometry.fill",
        "stylers": [
            {
                "color": "#eeeeee"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "featureType": "road",
        "elementType": "labels.text.fill",
        "stylers": [
            {
                "color": "#7b7b7b"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "featureType": "road",
        "elementType": "labels.text.stroke",
        "stylers": [
            {
                "color": "#ffffff"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "featureType": "road.highway",
        "elementType": "all",
        "stylers": [
            {
                "visibility": "simplified"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "featureType": "road.arterial",
        "elementType": "labels.icon",
        "stylers": [
            {
                "visibility": "off"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "featureType": "transit",
        "elementType": "all",
        "stylers": [
            {
                "visibility": "off"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "featureType": "water",
        "elementType": "all",
        "stylers": [
            {
                "color": "#46bcec"
            },
            {
                "visibility": "on"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "featureType": "water",
        "elementType": "geometry.fill",
        "stylers": [
            {
                "color": "#c8d7d4"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "featureType": "water",
        "elementType": "labels.text.fill",
        "stylers": [
            {
                "color": "#070707"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "featureType": "water",
        "elementType": "labels.text.stroke",
        "stylers": [
            {
                "color": "#ffffff"
            }
        ]
    }
]

Classes

For developers WS Form allows you to add your own classes to fields.

Field Wrapper

The wrapper CSS class setting enables you to add a class (or classes) to a field wrapper. Field wrappers are sections of HTML added around a field to position them on the page. To add multiple classes, add a space between the class names.

Field

To add a class to the actual field element itself, enter a class (or classes) to this setting. To add multiple classes, add a space between the class names.

Labels

Reset

You can use this setting to change the text shown in the reset link. If left blank, it will default to ‘Reset’.

Restrictions

User Status

Choose from one of the options to filter which user status can see this field:

Any
Is Logged In
Is Logged Out
Has User Role or Capability

If you choose ‘Has User Role or Capability’, additional settings will appear that enable you to choose one or more roles or capabilities.

Validation

Show Invalid Feedback

Invalid feedback text is shown when a form is saved or submitted, and the field has not been completed according to the field settings you have configured. For example if the minimum character count is 10 and you enter 5 characters and then submit the form, the field will be deemed invalid. If this setting is checked, invalid feedback is shown under the field.

Invalid Feedback Text

WS Form automatically builds invalid feedback text for all of your fields. If no text is entered into this field, the value shown in the field in light gray text will be shown. If you would like to specify alternative invalid feedback text, you can enter it within this setting.

WS Form variables can be entered into this field.

Custom Attributes

This setting is used to add custom attributes to the HTML of this field, such as data-my-attribute="1234". You can add as many custom attributes as you need.

To add a custom attributes key value pair:

Click the Add icon to add a custom attribute row.
Enter the key in the left column.
Enter the value in the right column.
Click Save to save the custom attributes.

Breakpoints

The breakpoint settings define the width of a field and also what the offset (how many columns from the left-hand side of the form or the previous field) of a field is for each breakpoint. For more information about the breakpoint settings and capabilities of WS Form, click here.