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Why should URL Redirects be set when moving to the Locator & Pages solution?

Published April 13th, 2021 by Marco Degano

This article explains, why it's important to set up redirects when migrating from a former Locator to the Locator & Pages product. What is a redirect? URL redirection, also called URL forwarding, is a World Wide Web technique for making a web page available under more than one URL address. When a web browser attempts to open a URL that has been

Locator & Pages Colour settings

Published July 6th, 2021 by Marco Degano

Scope This article outlines the attributes relevant to colour customization in for the Locator & Pages product. The solutions presented below are part of the available widget attributes that can be set and modified to influence the look and feel of the Locator. For more information about the attributes and for a full list, refer to this article.

How to add an outside element in Locator & Pages

Published June 18th, 2021 by Marco Degano

Scope This article offers a generic and basic solution to add an outside component to Locator & Pages via JavaScript. Introduction Disclaimer The following attempt was created and tested with a certain Locator and Pages version. Please note, that this solution might not be supported at a given point in future and we do not guarantee support for

How To Add an external HTML Widget in Locator & Pages

Published March 31st, 2022 by Marco Degano

It is possible to integrate third party HTML widget into Locator & Pages' Local Pages. You can add a total of 2 third party HTML widgets to the Local Pages, one per column. Request Custom Fields Creation To get started, you must request the creation of 2 custom fields, one for each third party HTML widget, from Uberall. You can do so by getting

Basic Single Sign-On

Published March 17th, 2021 by Marco Degano

The front end user portal can be used by integrating a Single Sign-On solution. This allows end-users to sign in to only one platform and then not have to sign-in to the user portal afterwards. Single Sign-On is achieved by using the API to produce an access_token and then using that token to log the user into the platform. Requirements There are t

Custom Filters for Locator & Pages

Published March 24th, 2021 by Marco Degano

Out of the box, the Locator & Pages product allows for filters to be determined based on the Services associated to locations. The utility of Advanced Filters is to expand the filtering possibilities to custom values, values that are not necessarily meant to be shared with external directories. Creating a New Advanced Filter End-users cannot cre

Locations File Data Input and Type

Published September 23rd, 2021 by Marco Degano

Scope This articles covers the data type and format for Location data. This includes the Location and Content List data. This article is limited to the data format and types of data fields of the import/export file. For API, please refer to the official API documentation and its Object Models. Introduction To keep a certain consistency in the data i

User Data Collection for Locator & Pages

Published June 2nd, 2021 by Marco Degano

This article describes the collection and use of User Data by Uberall for its Locator & Pages product. What is Collected When using the Locator & Pages product, Uberall stores the requester's IP address. This happens automatically upon accessing the Locator. No other information about the user is collected this way. The logging isn't intende

Locator + Pages Settings

Published June 6th, 2023 by Marco Degano

Each Locator has its own settings parameters that can be set-up and seen in the Front End. That being said, it is also possible to see this information using the API the /store-finders/$locatorKey/settings endpoint. This can be very useful when debugging or when you want to have an overview of everything that's enabled or configured for your locator

Tips to improve your Locator page

Published February 19th, 2021 by Marco Degano

Page performance and indexing are things to look out for with any web page. The idea is to make sure the content is readily available to the user on the page itself, but that it can also be found as fast as possible with a search engine. As of May 2021, these two aspects will be intertwined more than ever in Google search with Core Web Vitals being

How to prevent indexing

Published September 10th, 2021 by Marco Degano

This article will go over two methods for preventing your Locator & Pages from being indexed by search engines. Why prevent indexing? It can be beneficial to not have your Locator & Pages indexed on search engines if there is duplicate content across multiple instances of the Locator. This solution is for use-cases where there are multiple p

Google Attributes With The API

Published March 22nd, 2021 by Marco Degano

Google Business Profile (GBP) Attributes can be added and edited to a location via the User Interface in the user portal. A location needs to have specified category for the Attributes to be editable via a DropDown List. When managing locations with the API, managing GMB Attributes is possible. *Note that the Attributes are directly linked to the P

Data Points with the API

Published April 5th, 2021 by Marco Degano

Data Points play an important role in understanding client feedback for specific locations, services and products. Data Points can be Photos, Reviews, Replies to Reviews and Check-ins. This information can be retrieved with the /api/data-points API endpoint and then associated or filtered down to specific locations. The full API documentation on Dat