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I'm not sure what you mean with Google maps for business, but you can easily show a location or route between two locations on currently installed mapping application (which is in most cases Google Maps on Android) using Show Geolocation command

http://manual.altova.com...oloc_showgeolocation.htm

This will have to be an independent app.

I hope I can explain this well enough for you to help me; I can do this easily with google maps using show geolocation but I need truck routes.

I am trying to connect to an external app from my MTD App which requires connecting with a url. With this the user is taken to the app and gets truck routes based on the parameters of the url. If I put in the url and type in the LAt Long coordunates the url works exactly like it should. However I cannot assume what coordinates the user will be needing until he puts in his dispatch. Nor can I assume what type of veh configuration the user would have.

Therefore, I need the app to be able to accept the parameters from the xml file. I need to be able to construct this url from the data provided by the user and have set the following tree to pull from:

=geolat "41.12345"
=geolong "-72.12345"
=units "us"
=height"162"
=length "636"
=width "102"
=weight "80000"
=hazmatclass "0"
=axles "5"
=trailers "1"
=drawbar or 5th wheel "1"

THIS URL: "http://smarttruckroute.com/route/truck?daddr=Warehouse@41.12345,-72.12345&vehConfig=us,162,636,102,80000,0,5,1,1"

If I type this in the open url field and click on the control it goes to the app and gives me the appropriate route for the truck to take. However when I try to build this url and press the control, it only goes to the map and stops there waiting for me to put in the coordinates or address before it will give me the route.

I can easily get the coordinates to show on my form but it appears that I am not able to write them into the url.

I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE ANY SUGGESTIONS ON THE BEST APPROACH TO SOLVE THIS.

THANKS IN ADVANCE.

Using a button with the control action for "on button clicked" and "open url/file" I select open url and place this in directly:
"http://smarttruckroute.com/route/truck?daddr=Warehouse@41.12345,-72.12345&vehConfig=us,162,636,102,80000,0,5,1,1"

It goes to Smart truck route and retrieve the route. Perfect!

However, I will not be able to put these parameters in for each client.

I need to construct a way to build the url from their inputs and using that in the control action;

I tried localizing these two parts: "http://smarttruckroute.com/route/truck?daddr=Warehouse@" "&vehConfig=us" and using a sequence of strings to pull "41.12345,-72.12345" and "us,162,636,102,80000,0,5,1,1" from the persistent tree since this is what the client parameters would be. However no matter how I try to put it back together in the open url control action the best I can get is to land on the world map but it does not retrieve the route.

I'm actually surprised that the first works, because it is also wrong.

Assuming your functions Shippeurl() and Vehconfig() are properly implemented, this is the statement you need:

'http://smarttruckroute.com/via/truck?daddr=Stop@' || Shipperurl() || '&vehConfig=' || Vehconfig()

No string is necessary, but you have to put quotes around every directly typed text.

If this doesn't help then attach your actual file, then we can easily help.

($MT_GEOLOCATION/Root/Location/@Latitude) || ($MT_GEOLOCATION/Root/Location/@Longitude)

returns 37.3598504-77.9551039

Not sure how to get the ","

string($MT_GEOLOCATION/Root/Location/@Latitude), ($MT_GEOLOCATION/Root/Location/@Longitude)

also returns 37.3598504 -77.9551039

Just for completness, without adding the functions, the syntax would be:

'http://smarttruckroute.com/via/truck?daddr=Stop@' || $MT_GEOLOCATION/Root/Location/@Latitude || ',' || $MT_GEOLOCATION/Root/Location/@Longitude

I only wanted to show you how it can be written if you wanted to avoid creating functions.

Your way of doing things is absolutely fine, and your code is actually easier to read, because shorter. The execution time of this statement is so minimal, that it has no implications on speed or battery power.