Employee Locations

Mobility -> Employee Locations

Clicking on this item in the Mobility menu will show you a map of the employee’s last known location. Blue pin means on site and orange pin means off site. In Mobility Rules, you can set the Refresh Interval (in minutes) to update this display after the specified time. You can also set a view Horizon. This will determine how far back in time (hours) the app will retrieve the employee’s location data.

Google Maps

Recently, Google removed the ability for third party applications to connect freely to ‘specific’ Google Maps features. They have since changed this policy, to force any connection

to google maps to subscribe to their paid service in order to use their API. Subscribed users will then be issued with an API key from Google which can then be loaded into Ostendo. Mobility->Settings->Mobility Rules-Map API Key

Because of this new policy, the Employee Locations screen will only function for those Ostendo sites who have a valid Google Maps API key.

We suggest you use the “Map Javascript API” google key. (refer below) Information is available from:

Costs:

https://developers.google.com/maps/billing/understanding-cost-of-use

Obtaining An API Key:

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/embed/get-api-key

Once the Key has been provided, you can apply it from Settings -> Mobility Rules -> Map API Key Click here for more information

User Guide

https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/user-guide/

NB: This does not apply to the “Location Map” function, found against Jobs & Sales which uses a different form of Google Maps.