Hi,

Looks like you're trying to set a umbraco property to a HttpWebRequest, so this line will fail

sender.getProperty("distributorCoordinates").Value= request;

The google maps datatype holds a value such as 213.213092130,123.1234884,8 (if you look in your data/Umbraco.config file you can see exactly what it holds).

So you need to be setting  distributorCoordinates to a string value.

Make sense?

Rich

And how about using the Google maps datatype (see project section) ? No need for events to fire and do stuff?

Cheers,

/Dirk

Dirk, is there a way that the datatype can automatically get the coordinates?

The issue is I have a contour form that the distributor fills out when they register, and I want to automate the process of finding the coordinates. So instead of having the distributor have to use the map datatype, I want to populate the map datatype using the address, city, and state that the distributor entered into his registration form. So on the publish event I want to get the coordinates and populate the google map datatype on the node. Does that make sense?

Hey Chuck,

I would have a look at the source of how the Google Maps datatype gets the co-ordinates https://bitbucket.org/vertino/google-maps-for-umbraco/src then ammend your original code.

Rich

Actually Rich, I already did that, and I couldn't figure it out. I'll give it another go though... thanks.

Rich,

That's awesome! That gmaps project was the solution, just include a couple resources from that package and it makes grabbing map data super easy. Here is the final code I came up with.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Web;

using umbraco.BusinessLogic;
using umbraco.cms.businesslogic;
using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web;
using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.media;
using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.member;



using Google.Api.Maps.Service.Geocoding;

namespace DistributorNodes
{

    public class ApplicationBase : umbraco.BusinessLogic.ApplicationBase
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ApplicationBase"/> class.
        /// </summary>


        public ApplicationBase()
        {
            //Document.New += new Document.NewEventHandler(Document_New);
            Document.AfterPublish += new Document.PublishEventHandler(Document_New);
        }



        void Document_New(Document sender, object e)
        {
            //Document documentObject = sender;
            //Document doc = new Document(true,((CMSNode)sender).Id);

            if (sender.ContentType.Alias == "Distributor")
            {

                string distLogin = sender.getProperty("email").Value.ToString();
                string distPassword = sender.getProperty("password").Value.ToString();
                string distAddress = sender.getProperty("distributorAddress").Value.ToString();
                string distCity = sender.getProperty("distributorCity").Value.ToString();
                string distState = sender.getProperty("distributorState").Value.ToString();

                // get long and lat


                string location = distAddress + "," + distCity + "," + distState + ", USA";


                var request = new GeocodingRequest();
                request.Address = location;
                request.Sensor = "false";
                var response = GeocodingService.GetResponse(request);


               var retLat = response.Results.Single().Geometry.Location.Latitude;
               var retLong = response.Results.Single().Geometry.Location.Longitude;

               string distCoordinates = retLat + "," + retLong + ",14";


               sender.getProperty("distributorCoordinates").Value = distCoordinates;
                

            }


        }

    }


}

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