Create a Mapper Experience to visualize product locations

The Mapper Experience lets you visually map your products and services. You can highlight specific products and features in a visually recognizable setting. It’s ideal for showing how your offering is an excellent fit inside a customer’s world, whether it’s a factory, a lab, or an office.

To build this impressive experience for your users, you simply add clickable elements that you place on an image map. Selecting a clickable element can open a Page with more information, links, another Page, or assets from your Content Library.

See how it works

Key features

• Visually demonstrate the value of your products on a map
• Show products features and benefits for a particular environment
• Use hotspots, text, images, and click zones for an interactive experience
• Link these elements to Pages, other maps, external websites, and assets

You need this to succeed

• Showpad Plus or Ultimate plan
• Showpad Advanced Experiences activated
• You can download a design template on our Design guidelines page
• A well-thought-out idea of how to structure your content
• Content in the content library
• If needed, contact your Customer Success Coach for more information

The quick way to awesomeness

1. Create a new Advanced Experience
2. Build a structure by adding Nodes in the Experience Builder
3. Add Hotspots on a map to highlight specific products
4. Create a Click zone to create selectable areas on your map
5. Add Text for additional information
6. Select an Image to use on your map
7. Use Pages in your map to include product information
8. Customize your Design with icons, logos, and colors to match your company's branding
9. Start sharing content with Showpad Experiences

Do this step by step

The Mapper Experience helps you to visualize your products and services on a map. This map contains clickable elements that you place on an image. You can add

• a hotspot
• text
• an image (.PNG, .JPG)
• a click zone

These clickable elements link to a Content Type. A hotspot can link to Page with all information about a product. Use a click zone to cover an area of your map that links to an asset available in your Content Library. You can add text that links to your company's website, and so on. A Content-Type can be

• a Page
• another map
• a URL
• an asset from your Content Library

Building the Mapper experience

1. Open the Experience Builder and select Create New Experience. 
   
2. Give the new experience a name, then select Advanced Experience. Click Next.
3. Select Mapper, then click Create. 
4. The Experience Builder will open. You'll see two tabs: Navigation and Design.
   Navigation: Here's where you create the nodes, clickable elements that link to Pages, maps, external websites, and assets.
   Design: Here's where you can change the look & feel of the Mapper template.
5. Start with creating your nodes in the Architecture windows. Click the + icon and give your node a logical name. 
6. This is your first parent node, and in the configuration, you see an Enable Shortcut for Homepage option. If you have multiple parent nodes with these shortcuts enabled, all your maps with the Enable Shortcut for Homepage option are displayed on a home screen where your users can select the shortcut icon to go to the desired map. By default, the template loads the first map found in the navigation architecture. That map becomes the homepage.
   
7. If you enabled the shortcut for the homepage, upload your background and click Save.
8. If you want to display the image instead of the name in the navigation menu of your users, enable Display map in navigation.
9. Click Edit in the Map Configuration to upload the image. Click Save.
10. Add your child nodes. You can create empty nodes that serve as a folder to group your products.
    
11. Your next child node can be another folder or a map, where you can link to a Page, Asset, URL or another map. A map is configured in the same way as a map on a parent node.
12. Keep adding your nodes by selecting the node and clicking the + icon. To rearrange the structure, just drag and drop the node. 
    
13. Once your structure is complete, you can click Preview to see how it looks for your users and continue configuring maps and Pages.
    

Use a hotspot on a map

Hotspots are used to highlight specific items on your map. You can add and modify labels, links, icons, and lines.

1. Click Edit in the Map Configuration. Select Hotspot to add the element on the map.
   
2. Click on the icon to drag it to its position and one other click on the map to create the connecting line. You can bend the line by clicking on it and dragging the dot to another location.
   
3. You can change the label, select a different font (Helvetica, Roboto, OpenSans) and size, add a color and style, and align the text. The Report Label field is used for reporting purposes and can be edited. Click Save to retain all your changes.
   
4. In the Link tab, you can link this Hotspot to a Page, asset, a URL, or another map.
   
5. In the Icon tab, upload your customized icon. If you don't want to use an icon toggle this off.
   
6. In the Line tab, change the color of the link without changing the label color.
   

Create a click zone on a map

Make a part of your map selectable by creating Click zones.

1. Add a Click zone element on the map.
   
2. You can link this Click zone to a Page, asset, a URL, or a map. The Report Label field is used for reporting purposes and can be edited. Click Save to store.

Add Text on a map

1. Select Text in the list of elements. You can rearrange the location of the text by dragging and dropping. 
2. Customize the Link and the Label. Like any other elements, you can link this to a Page, another map, a URL, or an asset. The Report Label field is used for reporting purposes and can be edited. 

Add an image on your map

Another clickable element you can add is an Image (.PNG, .JPG). You can use this for example to enlarge a certain item of your map.