Yet Another Maps Question Re: Group Details!

If you are talking about the Orion Maps widget (as opposed to the older but still present Network Atlas map widget), then no, you can't assign multiple maps to their group names and have the appropriate one appear on the appropriate group / page.

Sadly SOLW have known about this shortcoming (the whole of Orion Maps is a shortcoming, but that's another topic) for well over a year and have yet to do anything about it.

There is an FR you could vote on: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/product-forums/the-orion-platform/i/feature-requests/orion-map-widget-improvements and frak has solved this by using (in his words) "a small JS in a HTML control" - I have no idea what that means and I'm hoping he'll produce a "how-to" soon 

Well...  kinda :-)  The code actually loads a view by the same name (that typically contained an Orion Map).  So do directly answer this would need modifying.  However the technique as laid out in the code is simple enough.

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So the title and subtitle parse the variable but the SWQL filter (where we need) won't??? That can't be right... lol. What about the fact that the group itself has lat/long attached to it already, it doesn't use that either?

Is there a way to make a copy of an the existing Worldwide Map Widget so it can be edited and tweaked and maybe have the filter piece updated to accept the variable, or see where in the DB it's storing it's code, etc... ? Or, a way to make a worldwide map via custom html that uses the group data?

I agree that should work.  Wonder if this is actually a bug?  KMSigma.SWI

I don't have it to hand, but there was a write-up here about how to unpack the Solarwinds website files, and produce a custom widget.   I prefer not to hack things that that low-level (because it would need to be updated when Solarwind was patched). 

I prefer to write javascript and put it in a Custom HTML widget.  This would also be an option.

Though i would expect your filter to work, already.

Yeah I don't want to get that deep either, we're new to SW but I've been doing this stuff for 1000 years in other systems. So now I'm in SWQL and this will update the specific filter value for a single worldwide map widget. I'm trying to see what I can put in here to have it work.

Set-SwisObject $swis -Uri 'swis://my.servername.yay/Orion/Orion.ResourceProperties/ResourceID=2213,PropertyName="Filter,Orion.Groups"' -Properties @{ "PropertyValue" = "Groups.Name = 'banana'" }

Ok, so far this is what I've done with bizarre results only because of the quote on ${Name} that doesn't work, but also somehow isn't required??

...when in doubt, build it yourself...

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