tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747272934569803137.post6741423792649876185..comments2009-01-23T08:30:41.498-08:00Appiriohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15774523927536637030noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747272934569803137.post-32686627762048965992008-12-10T04:11:00.000-08:002008-12-10T04:11:00.000-08:00Hi,<br><br>i just went through all the steps...i reach until thepoint where google earth starts ...but the file i recieve is empty. also i have a problem of defining a visualforce page as custom button (selection stays empty)<br><br>Do you have any help for me?!<br><br>Much apreciated,<br><br>contact to :luxemburger AD gmail.comKayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07932539240970642501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747272934569803137.post-56692240383917962842008-12-03T18:08:00.000-08:002008-12-03T18:08:00.000-08:00Yes it still seems to work, though IE sometimes wants to prompt before downloading the file.<br><br>At one point, I had to add some registry entries to associate .kml files with the Google Earth app. Those entries can be found at the end of the original post.Dan Guggenheimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419903891333365804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747272934569803137.post-21863790342217486562008-12-02T13:10:00.000-08:002008-12-02T13:10:00.000-08:00Dan,<br><br>Is the cache="true" fix for the IE7 problem still working for you?neutronronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15981376880379369527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747272934569803137.post-1845526940755876392008-10-07T12:41:00.000-07:002008-10-07T12:41:00.000-07:00Brian -<br> <br>There are a quite a few examples that show how one can mashup Salesforce and Google Maps. However, most of them use the <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/maps/" rel="nofollow">Maps API</a> instead of KML. (And, yes, this requires a key tied to the domain of your salesforce.com server.)<br><br>The mechanism for passing a KML file to Google Maps is to put the KML/KMZ file on a public website and then pass the URL to Google Maps, like <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=http://services.google.com/earth/kmz/EiffelTower.kmz&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=48.858193,2.289619&amp;spn=0.0054,0.011351&amp;om=1" rel="nofollow">this</a>.<br> <br>Since Apex typically runs under an authenticated session, there's no way for Google to "call back" to Apex and/or VisualForce to retrieve the KML "page" in our example. You'd need a publicly accessible, external process to retrieve the locations from SFDC and pass them back to Google in KML format.<br> <br>The Salesforce "Public Sites" functionality that's coming might provide a cleaner solution in the future.Dan Guggenheimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419903891333365804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747272934569803137.post-47256631019452276202008-10-06T18:21:00.000-07:002008-10-06T18:21:00.000-07:00Dan,<br>This is great and I got it working on my system. What changes would be needed to adapt it for Google Maps? <br><br>Would contentType="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" and kml xmlns="http://maps.google.com/maps/geo". Also would I need to include the SF server key?<br>Thanks.brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17287357877651780136noreply@blogger.com