A Map view places each record that has an address as a pin on a Google map. Think of pins on a wall map, where each pin is a record you can open. A panel beside the map lists every record with its address.

Here is the test: does where a record is matter, and do people plan visits, territories or deliveries from it? If yes, Map is the view. The table needs an Address field; a text field that holds an address does not place a pin.

Example: a Vendor Management solution with a Vendors table that has an Address field called Headquarters. The Security lead builds a public Map view called Vendor map. Each vendor is a pin at its headquarters. Spotlight colors the Tier 1 pins, and a radius around each pin shows the travel area for an on-site assessment. The auditor opens a pin, reads the address and takes the directions for the site visit.

The Vendor map: blue pins on a Roadmap map, the Map Settings button at the top left, and the Vendor Listing panel open on the right.

The table needs at least one Address field. See Address Field.

The new view opens on a Roadmap map. The first toolbar button reads Location : followed by the Address field in use. A record with nothing in that field has no pin. A map with no addressed records shows no pins and no message. The listing panel still shows every record, with "No Value" under its name.

The Create New Map View dialog with the name Vendor map and Public selected.

Select Location : <field> in the toolbar. The panel is titled Location, with the helper line "Your vendors will be displayed on the map, based on the field you choose". One dropdown lists the table's Address fields and nothing else. A Text field is not offered. Pick the field, then Done. For Vendor map the field is Headquarters.

Select the floating Map Settings : <style> button at the top left of the map. A panel opens on the left, titled Map Settings, with an X, a strip of style thumbnails, three sections that expand and collapse, and a full-width Close button. Every change applies to the map at once.

Five thumbnails: Roadmap, the default, Satellite, Hybrid, Silver and Retro. Select one and the tiles change. The button's label follows the choice, so it reads Map Settings : Satellite after that pick.

Map Settings open with the five style thumbnails and the three collapsed sections.

Collapsed to start. Three controls shape the pins.

The color here is for every pin. To color pins by a value, such as Vendor Tier, use Spotlight in the toolbar.

Collapsed to start. Seven rows, one per element of the map, each with a three-position slider: left is off, the middle is reduced, and the right is full. On a new view the positions are: Labels middle, Terrain middle, Highways right, Local Roads right, Transit left, Points Of Interest middle and Water right.

The Display Elements section with its seven sliders at their starting positions.

Collapsed to start. An ON | OFF switch, off to start. Turn it on and two controls wake: a number box, placeholder "Write here", and a unit dropdown with Miles (the default), Feet, Kilometers and Meters. The value draws a circle of that size around every pin. Vendor map uses 50 miles for the assessment travel area.

The map is a Google map with Google's own controls: Zoom in and Zoom out, Pegman for Street View, the Google logo, Keyboard shortcuts, Terms and Report a map error. Each addressed record is a pin in the chosen style.

Select a pin to open its card above it: an image thumbnail, the record's name, an Address label with the full address, an X, and two links. Expand Vendor (the link carries the table's singular record name) opens the record in its window. Get Directions opens directions to the address. The record's entry in the listing panel is highlighted while its card is open. Hovering over a pin shows nothing.

Pins that sit close together fold into one numbered pin until you zoom in.

A pin card open on the Vendor map with the address, Expand Vendor and Get Directions.

Select the button at the right end of the toolbar to open the panel; its tooltip reads Close Record Listing while the panel is open. The panel is titled with the record name and "Listing", for example Vendor Listing, with an X. It lists every record: the name, then the address or "No Value" in a muted style. Select an entry to open the record. With Group on, the panel shows a collapsible header per group with a count.

The toolbar's Sort, Filter, Group, Spotlight and Find act on this panel and on the pins together, so a filter trims both.

Left to right: Location, Sort, Filter, Group, Spotlight and Find, then the listing button at the right end. There is no Fields to Display and no Row Size. No Share View button appeared in the read of 30 Oct 2026.

Public and private views. Full Access members and Solution Managers create public views and save changes to them. Every member creates private views that only they see and edit. See View Panel: create, organize and lock views.

Autosave. The view menu holds an Autosave changes checkbox, checked to start. With it on, a change to the location field, map settings, filter or group is saved to the view for everyone as it is made. Build a public map on a duplicate first.

Locked views. A locked view keeps its settings fixed. A change made in it lasts only for the session of the member who made it. Records inside it stay editable by whoever has permission. See Locked Views.

Folders and sharing. Folders group public views in the View Panel, and a folder can be limited to selected members; see Folder Permissions. A shared link opens a view read-only for people outside the workspace; see Shared Views.

Zoom to the region you plan for, then select pins to read their cards. To open a vendor, select Expand Vendor on its card or its entry in the listing panel. To add a vendor, select the New Vendor button at the right of the view header. Type the street in the Address field and pick one of the suggestions Google offers. The city, region, postal code and country fill in. Save, and the pin appears. To move a pin, change the address in the record.

Map View also runs in the SmartSuite mobile app, with the pins and the record actions of the web app.

Print the view or export it from the three-dot menu; see Print or export a saved view.

Select the chevron next to the view name. The view menu lists Rename View, Add Description, Duplicate View, Change View Type, Public View, Delete View and the Autosave changes checkbox.

Last verified 1 Nov 2026.