A hotspot is a location on an interactive map. On a floor plan, a hotspot might be where you were standing when you took a picture of the kitchen. On a map of the world, a hotspot might be the location of an entire country. Usually a hotspot has content, such as images and text, that displays when you move your mouse over the hotspot.
Find these hotspots on the interactive maps below:
- Buildings on the locator map
- Legend labels on the locator map
- Arrows on the floor plan
- PDF icon on the floor plan
- Light blue labels below each map
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- States on the geographic map
- Stars on the geographic map
- Numbered circles on the light bulb diagram
- Filament on the light bulb diagram
- Photos in the gallery
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Hotspots vs. Markers
By itself a hotspot has no
size or appearance — to make a hotspot visible you assign a marker to
it. A marker is a symbol or a shape that has a size and appearance that
determine how big the hotspot is and what it looks like.
Every hotspot has one marker, but a marker can be used by many hotspots.
For example, the floor plan above has nine hotspots — eight of them use the same arrow marker and one uses a PDF marker.
Markers can have a normal appearance and a selected appearance. The normal appearance is what the marker looks like
when the mouse is not over it. The selected appearance is what the marker looks like when the mouse is
over it. For example, on the geographic map the state hotspots have shape markers that have a light green normal appearance and a dark green selected appearance. A marker’s
normal or selected appearance can even be invisible — the markers on the buildings on the locator map have an invisible normal appearance and a purple glowing selected appearance.
Hotspots can do more than display content
You can specify what you want to happen when a hotspot is clicked. A hotspot can link to a web page or document, link to another page in your tour, or execute JavaScript when it is clicked. For example, clicking the PDF marker on the floor plan opens a PDF document in a new browser window.
How many hotspots can I have in my tour?
You can have as many hotspot as you want in your tour so long as you have purchased enough hotspots for the number of markers you will use on your map. Remember that you can use hotspots to display photos, text descriptions, or both, and you can use them to display a tooltip, link to another map or data sheet in your tour or a URL, or execute Javascript.
How do I add a hotspot to a map?
Click in the menu.
How do I edit a hotspot?
Click in the menu.
How do I delete a hotspot?
- Click in the menu.
- Click on the confirmation dialog.
To delete multiple hotspots from a map in one operation:
- Click in the menu.
- Check the hotspots you want to delete and then click the button.
To delete multiple hotspots from a gallery in one operation:
- Click in the menu.
- Check the hotspots you want to delete and then click the button.
IMPORTANT: A deleted hotspot cannot be recovered. It is permanently removed from our database and cannot be restored.
How do I choose a new marker for a hotspot?
- Click in the menu.
- Click the dropdown to choose a new marker.
Note: With the Plus and Pro Plans you can also replace markers for multiple hotspots in one operation by clicking in the menu.
How do I create my own markers?
Click in the menu.
How do I show a specific hotspot when my map displays?
- Click in the menu.
- The URL field at the top of the screen shows the URL to use to display that hotspot when the map first displays.
The URL includes a query string with the hotspot id similar to:
tour.mapsalive.com/1234?hotspot=16900
where 12345 is the tour number and 16900 is the Hotspot Id found on the Edit Hotspot Content screen.
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