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In this video we update the template for the Note View to display the latitude and longitude if it is given for a note.
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So now, we've updated our form to be able to take our latitude and longitude and
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place it into our object.
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We can see it down here in the JavaScript inspector, however, it's not showing up
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in the view, and that's because we haven't explained how to display in the view.
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So, our next task is to go and update the view to, let's say, show the
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latitude and longitude of a particular note.
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To do this, we're going to go back to the index.html file in our code.
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Now we want to find the template for our show view which should be
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down at the bottom of the page.
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So, we have a couple of templates.
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We have our note list item template, which is not what we're looking for.
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That's how we display the items in the list.
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The note detail template is what we're looking for.
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And you remember, we basically just put all of our template information
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inside of this script tag, and anytime we use these special angle brackets,
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%=, it means that it will take the result of this expression and
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place it into the code where this tag is.
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So, for instance, this template is passed our note object, and to get the title,
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we call get and pass in title, and we show the body the same way,
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inside of the content section of this template, and let's just give it a
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nice little header, and let's just print out
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the latitude and longitude and place them in square brackets.
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So, we'll open up an <%= to insert the information into our template,
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and then we'll do note.get('latitude'),
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and we'll close this tag here and we'll put a comma, a literal comma,
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into the template, and then we'll do the same for our longitude, so we'll do
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note.get('longitude'), and we'll close out that tag as well.
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So, I'm going to save out index.html, and if we go back and refresh,
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now we can see the location with our latitude of 28.5 and longitude of -81.
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Now, that's all great.
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Let's go back into all notes and our new view.
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Let's create a normal note without location and see what happens.
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So, we'll give it some body text, and I'm going to make sure "Tag With Location"
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is set to no, so if we save it out, looks like we just have a little bit of a
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freak out there, but if we go to all notes and click on a normal note,
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we can see that we still have the location here, but we have empty values
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for the latitude and longitude, and obviously, this is not what we want.
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So, let's go back to our template, and let's make it so this location
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information is only shown if there is location information
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associated with this note.
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What we can do is use an if statement inside of a normal template tag.
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So, instead of doing <%=, we're just going to use <%, and this is going to just
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be for holding our if statement.
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So, let's create an empty if statement first, and I'm going to leave the curly braces open
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and close the tag.
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Now I'm going to go ahead and indent these two lines a little bit,
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and now to match that if statement, I'm going to open up another tag
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and just put the closing braces and to make it clear, let's add a comment
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saying what we're closing out here.
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We're ending our if statement.
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Now, how do we determine if we want to show the location or not?
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Well, we could do a check to see if the latitude and longitude are set, however,
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it's really bad practice inside of a template to do a lot of logic and computation.
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Basically, the if statement is really as complex as we want to get,
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and we want to abstract the contents of the if clause into a simple
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method that really describes what we're checking for.
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So, instead of typing "ifnote.getlatitude" and note.getlongitude,
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we will say "note.isGeoTagged," and this is a method we have not yet created,
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but what it does is, it provides us a very clear indication of what we're
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checking for in our if statement.
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We're checking if the note is GeoTagged.
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So, I'm going to save out the template, and then what we need to do is
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update our model code to include a method called "isGeoTagged," which returns true
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if it has the location information on it.
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So, let's go back to our application.js, and let's go back to our
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note model, which is right here, and all we really have is an initializer,
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so under the initializer, I'm going to add a new method called "isGeoTagged,"
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and it's not going to take any arguments, and what it's going to do is return
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this.get('latitude') and this.get('longitude').
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And this will only return true if both latitude and longitude have true values or
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numbers and not null, and let's go ahead and add a comment
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to explain exactly what this does.
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So, now we should be able to go back to our code in our browser,
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and let's just start at the homepage, and if we go to all notes
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and take a look at a normal note, there's no section for the location data,
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but if we go to our location note, the location data shows up.
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So, now we have our latitude and longitude, but that's not really very useful for us.
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What would be really nice is to create a map with a pin over where we created our note.
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