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Add Location Details to SharePoint Data and Content
We are excited to announce a new capability for SharePoint lists and libraries. The new location column allows you to add rich location data from Bing Maps or your organization directory to any SharePoint list or library. You can then filter, sort, and search by any aspect of the location data such as address, city, or state.
Creating a Location Column
To add a location column, simply click Add Column then select Location
You can then name the column and add secondary columns to display, sort, and filter by attributes such as city, state, or country.
Now when creating or editing list items, you can search for location data from Bing Maps or your organization directory to associate it with your list item.
Once you have added location data for your list items, you can sort and filter your list based on any of the additional columns added during the column creation process. If you want to filter by an attribute you did not include during column creation, it can be added in the Edit Column pane.
Adding a new column type to SharePoint is a rare event. We can’t wait to see what uses you come up with for this new column!
We anticipate roll out for targeted release will begin by the end of November, with full worldwide release by mid-December.
Update: After resolving some issues that were discovered in targeted release, we are now finally ready to start shipping world wide. Location Column will now be available to everyone by Monday
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Hi James Jackson,
we managed the most of our Content Types in the content type hub and I'd like to create a location column on the content type level, but I've found no proper type in the create a column form.
Isn't it possible to create a column type of location in the content type hub and roll out it to the system?
If so, are there any workarounds? (Except of adding it locally to each list..)
Regards,
Ingrid
What syntax should we use for entering locations that do not have a result in Bing (e.g. a coral reef in the middle of the ocean)?
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RobElliott I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but this is a real world use case for companies whose work takes them anywhere in the "field" (oil industry, for example, or for environmental nonprofits like where I work).
I am really liking this feature! A couple of questions, how does it pull our company directory information. I need to know where to ensure that the data is up-to-date. The next question, can you enter a GPS information and have it resolve, like for example capturing that data from a PowerApps users phone GPS location.
Hi Everyone,
Thank you for your patience with the roll out of this feature. We found a few minor bugs in Targeted Release and wanted to fix them before pushing to production. I should have a new timeline for you in the next few days
James Jackson can you clarify on what "location data from [...] your organization directory" means? Where would such location data be stored and managed?
Thomas Bak This is something I would like to know too. Some of the locations in our projects do have an address in Bing Maps, some doesn't (e.g. middle of the forest), so I would like to create new locations by coordinate, only visible within the organization and as i understand this could be done through the organization directory.
What I don't know is what it is referring to exactly and how to manage it. Any luck with finding out how to do it?
- Concur - there is so much that can be done with Location columns but to date we have not been able to find any step by step guide or demo that shows how to use it and we have not been able to figure out all the ins and outs of what we can do with this new field - ITs A NEW FIELD!!!! We should be swimming in information on how to use it but the only thing we can find is Chris McNulty's blog which is not helpful when it comes to implementation details and use cases.
Not working in our instance either
There is certainly something wrong with these coordinates. Look at image. Polish Parliament is located in Warsaw, which is located east from Greenwich 0'. Therefore it should be E instead of W. How it's possible these coordinates are shown?
Afghan Salon wrote:
There is certainly something wrong with these coordinates. Look at image. Polish Parliament is located in Warsaw, which is located east from Greenwich 0'. Therefore it should be E instead of W. How it's possible these coordinates are shown?
It does look like the renderer for the geo coordinates are reversing East and West. We are working on a fix now. Thanks for finding the issue! We are working on a fix right now
James Jackson wrote:
Afghan Salon wrote:
There is certainly something wrong with these coordinates. Look at image. Polish Parliament is located in Warsaw, which is located east from Greenwich 0'. Therefore it should be E instead of W. How it's possible these coordinates are shown?
It does look like the renderer for the geo coordinates are reversing East and West. We are working on a fix now. Thanks for finding the issue! We are working on a fix right now
Hi Afghan Salon,
We were able to find the issue with this last night and the fix is already in the pipeline, you can expect it in less than two weeks
Hi Jackson
Still can't see that option in our Office356 environement... do we need to do something to activate?
Adi Mader wrote:
Hi Jackson
Still can't see that option in our Office356 environement... do we need to do something to activate?
Role out has been a bit delayed. We are currently at 100% First Release Users and will be at 100% of First Release tenants tomorrow
Hi
Still can't find the release in our instance of O365... delayed again?
Is it available for classic SharePoint versions, like SP 2013 too?
Kaiyan Liu wrote:
Is it available for classic SharePoint versions, like SP 2013 too?
This is only available in Modern SharePoint
Could You please give any visual exaple of using coordinates property.
Afghan Salon wrote:
Could You please give any visual exaple of using coordinates property.
Here is a list with Geo Coordinates:
