Maps, Drive Times, and Distances are Now Integrated into DayBack Calendar for FileMaker
DayBack has long offered route and drive time calculations using custom actions. Creating and customizing them is now much easier, thanks to the new map. A new, interactive map is built into the calendar as a parallel view of your schedule, so you can edit times and assignments in either view and see your changes reflected in both the calendar grid and the map.
Here’s an overview of how it works…
What Can You Do with Google Maps in FileMaker?
Routing
Visualizing routes is now built-in. Plot a person’s day or week and see changes in the route as you reassign or reschedule appointments in the calendar. DayBack can optimize your route with additional customization, rescheduling events to create the most efficient path. Of course, not all appointments are open to rescheduling, so DayBack’s actions consult your FileMaker records to determine which events can get moved.
Highlight the Closest Resource
When trying to assign an unscheduled event, DayBack can find whose closest–either from their home location or based on where they are scheduled to be at the time of the event. You can use this to render your drive-or-fly criteria and rank resources by who’d have the easiest time getting to a customer.
Show Customers on the Map
Not everything you want to see on the map will be an appointment. You’ll likely want to see customers or sales territories on the map so you can arrange sales visits that complement your travel. Just as DayBack can render any tables that contain dates, the map can render records from any FileMaker tables that contain a location (and functions for geocoding your addresses are built-in).
Add Maps to Your DayBack
The new map and distance features are currently in preview for Salesforce and FileMaker data sources. Preview is a semi-public release that lets customers start using maps as we continue to release new features and improve the documentation. Many of the behaviors shown above are enabled with custom actions we’ll publish to give users and developers a head start in creating their own location-based workflows.
If you’d like the new mapping features enabled in your DayBack, just ask. We’ll turn these features on under the hood, and you can then enable maps for your users or tinker with it yourself in draft settings mode before publishing it.
(Maps, routing, and drive times require DayBack’s Plus plan, and you’ll need to create a Google Maps API key.)
2 Comments
I have used pro-maps in the past and currently using parts of Seedcode add-ons parts of Codence.
My business is service based, 9 trucks which service roughly 100 sites per day. I am interested in learning more about how this can be bolted onto my system. Each driver uses an iPhone and uploads and downloads their route. This is part of a GoZync add-on.
I need things more efficient and am also interested in learning about salesforce integration.
Thanks
Michael
Sounds great, Michael. I’ll email you some times when we can get together and chat about this.