Alex Little

Been thinking more about what to ‘do’ about embedding Google maps into the MSG block in LabSpace and what should be shown depending on whether the user is currently logged in to LabSpace. Now we’re thinking that the map should be displayed whether or not the user is logged in and it should display markers for all of the currently logged in users.

As these users might not be in your contacts list we’d only be able to display the location, no presence, name or any other information – so we’d need to use another colour marker (I think) to indicate their presence/personal details are unavailable to you.

The only difference (in the block map) between logged in and not logged in users, would be the fact that logged in users would have a link out to their ‘real’ presence map. This does seem to be quite restrictive for logged in users (as we do actually have the other data that’s displayed on the actual presence map) but I’m wary about making the LabSpace page too JavaScript heavy – which would be required to make the map embedded in the block monitor all the users/presence changes.

Any other suggestions/possibilities welcome as to how the embedded maps should function for logged in vs logged out users