🆕 [NEW PLUGIN] Geofence - Trigger an event when entering or leaving a zone!

[vnihoul77]

GeoFence Complete

Hi there!
We just release this new plugin to the Bubble marketplace !

This plugin allows to watch a dynamic geographic point and trigger an event when it enters or leaves a zone. Zones can be defined as unique or list of custom polygons or radius around a point. Highly customizable and complete documentation.

Main features

Watch a dynamic point
Use of raw coordinates possible
Trigger can be a fixed point or a custom polygon
Can trigger on a list of points/polygons
Calculate distance from the trigger point
Can retrieve in which trigger point it is
Expose the actual trigger point unique ID
Can use a different trigger radius for each trigger point
Multi-unit support (Metric, Imperial, Nautical)
No need for Google Maps API
Calculate distance between two coordinates without Google Maps API (in workflows - front and backend - and as a visual element)
Complete documentation

The plugin is available for $3/month or $19 for a lifetime license.

We offer full documentation with the plugin and forum support.

LINKS

Plugin page: https://bubble.io/plugin/embed–iframe-dete…

Demo application: https: //plugin-demo-iframe.bubbleapps …
Demo editor: https://bubble.io/page?name=index&id…

Documentation: https://www.notion.so/Embed-iFrame-Detector-…

WIN IT

The first 2 people to suggest an improvement track will have a free lifetime license!

This plugin is made by the French platform Ottho

[MarkusBoostedApp]

Awesome plugin!

Improvement: Icon could be user’s profile picture and zone pointer could be custom icon too.

[equibodyapp]

I think the map and icons are ZQ’s mapbox plugin

Would be good to have a start/stop track user action and an event ‘when user location changes’ so you don’t need another plugin to get those details.

For instance -

1. start tracking user
2. when user location changes save lat and long to Bubble database
3. watch fields set to these lat and long fields in bubble database

I know you can use the bubble native ‘current geographic position’ but I don’t find that highly accurate and you also can’t save that every time it changes to call on it later (for instance user tracking by a different user).

[doublejay]

How might I “watch a field” in bubble?

[equibodyapp]

I’m specifically referencing this plugin and it’s functionality.

[vnihoul77]

That’s indeed a very good idea @equibodyapp.

Theoretically, you could do it by setting up the plugin with as a watchpoint the “Current User location” and as the trigger point also the first “Current User location” when the page is loaded (must be not dynamic so you could save it in a state) and then set up the radius when you should trigger the “User left” zone.
But it could be done in an easier way! I’ll keep it in mind, thanks!

[vnihoul77]

Can you elaborate?
The plugin allows you to watch if a geographic point enters/leaves/gets closer to another point or area

[doublejay]

Ah. Would be cool if bubble allowed us to watch for changes to a particular data field and run workflows if edited.

[doublejay]

Gotcha. I thought she was referencing a feature bubble had to “watch for changes to a data field@ and run actions off of that

[vnihoul77]

There is!
Look at the “Trigger custom event when data changes” workflow

[doublejay]

Ooh! Will check out thanks

[vnihoul77]

You’re welcome

[equibodyapp]

Yep like @vnihoul77 said in your backend workflows you can create database triggers

[technoswift]

Wow !! this is something we needed in our App, will check out soon !
Hoping we can trigger an event to “go to a URL” as soon as user is at particular location/polygon.

[vnihoul77]

Indeed you can! Great to hear

[zach8]

This is great thanks so much. Geofencing is crucial for so many real-world applications, and this seems to make it really easy.

Not sure if I missed it, but for my distinct purposes it would be great to have an elapsed-time element as well. Would be good to be able to define events based on how long a user has been within a zone, and also would be great to have the option to index duration of each “visit” to the defined zone.

[gonvaz]

@zach8

Did you figure this out yet? is it possible?

[zach8]

I didn’t wind up exploring this option. I’m still a few months out from implementing, but for now I have been looking at how to achieve this with Leafy Maps or Zeroqode Google map extender.

I am steering clear of mapbox and other services that require you to manage a whole other data set outside of Bubble. Makes it more time-consuming and less efficient to integrate geographic data because these plugins don’t really let you integrate a map service with bubble. Instead they just let you display a map on your bubble site, but all the data on the still map has to be managed on a separate platform.

Fwiw, the map solution plugins that are offered right now, are all lacking if you just want to use Bubble.

[alfonso.galindo]

hi @vnihoul77 , in my application, users’ latest locations (lat/long) are saved to the data base with the background tracking functionality. I need to send them a push alert if they get inside the geofence (so this could happen when the app is not running). for this, I would need to evaluate whether their latest coordinates are within the geofence, in the back end. I’ve been testing the app and this doesn’t seem to be possible, or am I missing something?

btw the plugin works great when I trigger the geofence alert while using the app… I hope there’s a way to do this on the background (in the back end) as well…

[vnihoul77]

Unfortunately this is not possible do to Bubble’s limitations