In order to wire Apps in Mashboard (have an event in one App update another App in the same workspace), the sending App must publish a topic and the receiving App must subscribe to that topic. The receiving App in your case is using Google Maps which expects one or more locations as either latitute/longitude pairs or as points.
So the first question is for your publishing App (the one with a location), exactly what does it output as a location? Does it have the exact location information that Google maps is looking for?
The second question is how is this publishing App created? If you created it in Presto as a basic App using one of the built-in views, then you need to see what topics that App publishes (it depends on the view). You can do this in Mashboard by starting to Wire the workspace with both Apps. You may need to do something in your publishing App (like click on a button or some graphic object in a chart) in order to see what topics it publishes. You can also find some information in the documentation for our built-in views about what events a given view publishes. See http://www.jackbe.com/prestodocs/v3.0/views/view-library-intro.html for links to information on most of the built-in views.
If you created the publishing App as a custom App (or the receiving App), you must define topics in the App Specification (app.xml) to define what the App publishes/receives. See http://www.jackbe.com/prestodocs/v3.0/apps-dev/topicsRef.html for basic information about declaring topics in custom Apps.
You must also implement the logic in your App script (app.js) that either publishes or subscribes to those topics. You can find information about the methods you use from the App API at http://www.jackbe.com/prestodocs/v3.0/presto-apis/apps/.
Once you have both Apps set up to publish/subscribe to topics, you simply wire them together in Mashboard.
Hope this helps,
Sara, technical writer/jackbe
Hi,
One thing that didn't strike me until just now in your question was that you were using a Google gadget in the workspace. Docs are not clear about this (but will be). Gadgets or widgets that you add from the utilities in the Mashboard palette cannot be used in wiring. So I think that answer is that you cannot do what you want to do.
The reason for this is that gadgets/widgets from other sources do not necessarily provide the support needed to wire Apps or handle the actual publishing/subscriptions at runtime. Only basic Apps or custom Apps that use the Presto Apps API can participate in wiring within a workspace App.
Sara, technical writer/jackbe
Dear all,
I have placed an app in mashboard which produces a name of the place as output. i have placed a google map gadget which shows the place in the map. In the gadget when we enter the name of the place we can see the place in map. My requirement is i want to map the place that arrives as output in the application to be mapped in the google map gadget. In simple terms make the app interact with the gadget and pass the place string from app to gadget. Please help me .
Thanks.
gomshan