How to set up Star Maps
You can now use the Star Map feature.
The following article will guide you through the set up process of the Star Map feature.
Connect Mapbox & Google Map account
Setting up the Star Map
You can find the Star Map set up dashboard under Extras > Star maps generator
Preview Section
Styling Section
In this section, you have various choices to customize the Star Map. Continue reading below to find more details about them.
Styling
Continue reading below to find out more about each configuration
Stars
In this panel, you can control:
- Toggle: Show/Hide the Star Map
- Size: The size of the Star Map
- Fill Color: The color of the Star Map
- Opacity: The transparency of the Star Map
Constellations
In this panel, you can control:
- Toggle Show: Show/Hide the Constellations
- Color: The color of the Constellations
- Stroke width: The width of the Constellations
- Stroke opacity: The transparency of the Constellation
- Name Toggle: Show/hide Constellations' names
- Name Type: The Constellations' name types
- Name Color: The Constellations' name color
Graticule
In this panel, you can control:
- Toggle Show: Show/hide the Graticule
- Color: The color of the Graticule
- Width: The size of the Graticule's line
- Opacity: The transparency of the Graticule's line
Milky Way
In this panel, you can control:
- Toggle Show: Show/hide the Milky Way
- Fill Color: The color of the Milky Way
- Fill opacity: The transparency of the Milky Way
Background
In this panel, you can control:
- Fill Color: The color of the Earth
- Opacity: The transparency of the Earth's color
- Stroke Color: The color of the Earth's outline
- Width: The thickness of the Earth's outline
Once you are done with the configuration, you can see a snippet of the Star Map here:
Adding the Star Map configuration to your Artwork
In your Artwork Editor, create a new layer like you normally do, and select the following setting:
In here, you will find a setting panel for the Star Map feature as well. The first thing you should do should be copying your recently created configuration here:
In the setting panel inside Artwork Editor, you can:
- Set a custom default location (This will override the default location you have set inside Star maps generator page)
- Set a custom label for each setting
- Set a custom placeholder text for each setting
- Set a custom show/hide switch for each setting
How to set up a default location
The location that maps will show when customers haven't selected a location yet.
You can change it by entering a latitude & longitude of a location.
To get the latitude & longitude of a location: Search a location on Google maps > Right click on the marker > copy the "latitude, longitude" number OR copy it on the url.
Once you are done with the setting inside Artwork Editor, the Campaign should look like this:
If you are happy with the Campaign, you can go ahead and launch it now!
Auto populate custom data to a custom text field based on the Map selection
In this example, if the Map Location is set to Berlin, Germany, both the text field and the Live Preview will automatically set to Berlin, Germany as well.
To do so, please follow these steps:
- Create a text layer like you usually do
- Select Populate values from other options
- Continue to select the Layer you want to get value from. In this case, it would be the Street Map layer
- Select the type of value you want to get. You can click on the **Lookup values ** button for more details. At the moment, we support these values. We will be continuing to update more in the future!
- Since you want to get the place name value, then you can copy and paste the
{{place_name}}value there.
| Tips: You can also enter a custom text there along with the custom value
- Check your results on the Storefront:
NOTES:
- Customers can still edit the text field anytime, even after it's been filled.
- If the Customers change the map location again, the text field will update with the new values, which could replace any custom info they added before.
Updated on: 21/11/2024
Thank you!