Import external map

Hi,
With this feature, you can easily import any html map from the Web. It may be the URL of an external web site, an inner file from your file system (html, php, asp...) or a page from your website. In this last case, conventional XML Export/Import is recommended.
You simply need the URL of the page displaying the map. The external map gets parsed and the image map is imported in the system where the hotspots and the rendering can easily be edited.

For more details, please go to section 3.2.3 Import external map of this file HTMLMapMaker.Documentation.EN.pdf

Best regards,

I have read your PDF file, unfortunately it offers little help.
Can you provide an example that allows one to import a file that not only defined the image map but also the what the contents of the "On mouse over" and "On click" fields would be?

Would it be of the format:

<img src="SomeFile.jpg" usemap="Test" alt="" style="border-style:none" />
<map id="Test" name="Test">
<area shape="rect" alt="Alt IT" coords="165,68,240,152" href="Import Test" title="Alt IT" onMouseOver="????" onClick="????" />
</map>

Here is a example that allows to import a map with hotspots and their behaviors using URL
- Go to Import new external map, in Source Map section, choose Link Type as URL and enter address of your link. You can use http://dotnetnuke.aricie....tmlmapmaker/map.aspx for example ( we have created a map with many contents)
- Click Preview to see map image which is parsed from above url
- Click Import, you will be redirected to edit page of imported map with existing hotspost and their behaviors.
- Click save and return, you can use this map as the one you have in that URL.
(View images in ImportExternalMap.zip for more details)

For Import using a file, HTMLMapMaker does not work correctly at this moment. We'll try our best to fix it and get back to you as soon as possible

Best regard,
ARICIE Team

Thanks for your response, I appreciate that.

I have looked into the SQL at dbo.ModuleSettings and see that all the necessary XML and HTML are available that define things. Would it be possible to directly add map setting that way? Can you help to confirm/understand the value in the "SettingName" column and how that operates? It appears that "InnerMapX" define a map settings while "InnerMapX-Y define the HTML map hotspots. Also wondering why the HTML of the maps seems to be broken up in 2000 size blocks? Can on just put the HTML in one record?

I really appreciate your support as my customer has a number of maps and each of which might have 100 or so hotspots on them. The manual web UI for doing this number of hotspots is just not practical as I have the hotspot and link data available automatically already and so I can build the required information automatically.