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Selecting an item out of the drop down list will centre the map on this

location and a red marker will appear. Please note that this marker might

be hidden behind the base layer or contextual layers. You can toggle map

layers on and off by using the checkboxes in the Legend.

The results of the Google Search might improve significantly if the

administrator adds an ‘Appended Search Text’ into the configuration

properties in the Designer. This will ensure results are more relevant to the

local area.

For example in a map with Edinburgh post code sectors, the Google

Search will not be able to find the ‘Botanic Garden’ by default. This is

because Google only returns a certain number of results it finds worldwide

for the specified search term. These results are then filtered to only show

those which lie inside the bounding box of the base layer. However, in the

list returned by Google to the report, the Botanic Garden in Edinburgh is

not included because there are too many results for Botanic Garden (all

around the world). To ensure greater accuracy in the search results, the

administrator is advised to choose an ‘Appended Search Text’ which is

always added to the search term which the end-user enters into the text

field.

We would recommend choosing as the ‘Appended Search Text’ a word or

phrase which describes the area of you base geography. Using the

Edinburgh post code sectors as an example, the word ‘Edinburgh’ would

be suitable as this would ensure only results relevant to ‘Edinburgh’ are

returned. If you have a map for the United Kingdom, then ‘UK’ would be a

suitable ‘Appended Search Text’.

If you wish that the Google Search text field contains already some

descriptive text when the report loads, you can define this text in the

‘Search Default Text’ property. This could for example be ‘Type your

search term here...’

C.4.3.14. Feature Card Properties

The HTML templates Single Map, Population Pyramid, Election

Results, Scatter Plot and Advanced Bubble Plot include a

component called Feature Card. It shows an overview of the data for

the selected feature(s) (Figure 89). It is highly customisable as its

content is defined in HTML Format in the file called ‘snippet.htm’.

InstantAtlas customers can find further information and examples on

how the Feature Card component can be used in the IA Online

Library (you will be asked to sign in to your ‘My InstantAtlas’

account):

http://www.instantatlas.com/customers/support/library/desktop/tech-

articles/html/feature-card