Hello,
I’m writing to see if anyone has ever looked into adding an element like this on their discourse platform.
My boss is interested in exploring if we could present the user with an image with different hotspots on the discourse platform itself. It would act as a sort of map, with information contained in each ‘spot’. I’d love to know if something like this is even possible before exploring how or who could help with this.
Are there any examples online that are similar to what you are trying to achieve? Where do you want the image, or images, to appear on your forum?
Like a map and click on a region to jump to that category. Or a products map.
Very useful for newcomers. Probably need a feature to hide afterward.
You can create an image map with html using map and area tags. It would be easy to add one to a custom header. To add the tags to a topic or banner would require some javascript.
Hi Simon,
Here’s an example of something similar. We have someone doing a drawing of a collection of buildings, and we want people to be able to click on each building and read some textual descriptions.
This example is for a plug-in for other platforms, but I’m looking for a way to accomplish this on our site, as you said a custom header might be best. Is it really as easy as using html? I’m not sure how elegant we can make it - or if it needs to be barebones using html.
@schungx Yes, an option to hide it would also be good - I think people would navigate around easier using the category view
Yes, that’s a little more complex. It would require some javascript, but it’s still doable. You could also create the map on another site and embed it as an iframe.
Edit: If all you need is to display and hide information panels when a button is clicked, you could get quite far with a customization using html and css. The example you gave is using buttons positioned over an image. The tricky part would be positioning the buttons.
Stavo proprio cercando una cosa del genere oggi, ma usando Markdown e integrato in Discourse. Sto lavorando con la mia famiglia per identificare le persone nelle foto, e mi piacerebbe molto poter creare un argomento con un JPG nel primo post, permettendo agli utenti di rispondere per discutere la foto e descrivere tutto ciò che sanno su di essa e sulle persone ritratte. Il primo post potrebbe essere un wiki modificabile per aggiungere annotazioni assegnate a punti specifici della foto. Queste apparirebbero come punti caldi quando passi il mouse sulla foto, cliccabili per leggere l’annotazione relativa a quel punto.
Sono piuttosto sicuro che una cosa del genere non esista e sto solo lanciando idee. Forse potrebbe essere un nuovo plugin ispirato a Discourse Footnote, che offre anche l’espansione in linea.