1. What is the GPS Coordinates widget?
The Location widget allows your operators to geolocate their interventions or assets.
The GPS Coordinates widget is located in the Tasks category within your editing studio.
This widget will return a location in the form of GPS coordinates. These coordinates consist of a latitude coordinate and a longitude coordinate.
You can also reposition the marker indicating your location.
You can also automatically retrieve the GPS coordinates by selecting the option.
2. Practically, how do I use a Location Block in my Ermeo form?
Context: Imagine a company reporting anomalies during its interventions. An anomaly is a resource within a database. Each anomaly must be geolocated.
a. Drag and drop the Creation widget into your form. Name it "Anomaly Report." This widget will allow you to report anomalies.
b. Inside the Creation widget, drag and drop a Location widget. Name it "Geolocation."
c. In the settings, you can link the Geolocation widget to a previously created Location-type attribute.
Each newly created anomaly will thus be characterized by its Location-type attribute.
d. Publish the form and open it in the application.
e. You need to allow the Ermeo App to access your location. Your location is then stored to display coordinates.
f. If the location is not accurate, you can reposition the red marker by clicking on reposition.
Warning: the Location block retrieves an extremely precise GPS position (up to 12 decimal places).
When you use this data as a filter to find resources in your database, the search is not done by looking for the “closest match,” but only for an exact match.
👉 It’s a bit like trying to find someone by asking for their exact apartment number, rather than just the building. If a single digit is different, the search will fail.
As a result: you may get few or no results in your automatic selections.
We therefore do not recommend using this block directly as a filter.