With the location component, users can log their current location. The component is particularly useful in add or form screens if your users are submitting location data. Once they have submitted their data, you can plot it on a map. It’s important to note that this logs a one-time location that do…

If I understand it right Glide always have user’s location if they enable the location tracking, that’s the way they calculate the distance column. However if devs want to use that location in a map, for example showing current location of multiple users, then the users have to write that to the Sh…

You can use a distance column and sort by distance from lowest to highest.

did you know how to setup this api to glide ?

Thank you that did it, :slight_smile: Question is there anyway to write that Component thing within the Map? Like when you click on this? [image] Maybe a custom pop up? Do you want to update your location for everyone?

We don’t have an action for that yet.

Is there a way to make this location component required? It’s for an errand booking app I am creating and without the coordinates, a rider won’t find his customer

Can you elaborate on this? How do I take the values from the distance column and sort them? I want to set up my maps to only show the three nearest locations and am not able to figure out how I can create a sort column inside the glide table.

If you have the distance column set up already, you can just sort the inline list component ascendingly by that distance value, and limit the number of items to 3. [image] [image] [image] [image]

Hi, can you please elaborate or share your script to force the toggle button of the location component to always be ON ? Thanks

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