The guide
Helpers
Helpers is the page under Spots in a guide's sidebar. A guide has two kinds of pins. Spots are worth the trip on their own: a lake, a viewpoint, a cliff restaurant everyone comes for. Helpers exist for the spots: the car park, the cable car, the restaurant for lunch, the hut to sleep in.
What a pin is comes from its categories. A pin whose categories are all Parking, Get around, Eat & drink or Sleep is a helper and lists here. A pin with at least one See & do category is a spot and lists on Spots, even when it is also a restaurant or a guesthouse. Change a pin's categories and save, and it moves to the other page on its own.
Helpers never count as spots: the spot count on Spots, on the sales page and in the store counts spots only. A helper needs no photos and no property values. It is ready with a title, a category and a pin.
The Helpers list
The line above the list counts the guide's helpers, like 1 helper or 12 helpers, archived ones left out. About helpers, the (i) beside it, says what helpers are.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| New helper | Beside the page title: opens the dialog below. |
| Search helpers | Filters the list by name and by the names of the categories. |
| The chips | All, then one chip per group, Parking, Get around, Eat & drink and Sleep, each with its count, and Archived once a helper is archived. A group's chip shows once the guide has a helper in it. Screen readers call the chips Show helpers. |
Each row shows the helper's icon (its first category), its title, its categories and the spots it is for, like "For Äscher and Schäfler", or "For Äscher, Schäfler and 2 more" past two. A helper that no spot uses yet reads Not linked to a spot yet. Click a row to open the helper's form.
Places you made on Planning before helpers came are helpers now, linked to the same spots. A place that was the same as one of your spots, like a mountain hut that is also the viewpoint, joined that spot instead: the spot took the place's categories, and the link to its routes and itineraries.
New helper
The dialog finds the helper on the map by name. The tabs at the top pick what it is: Parking, Get around, Eat & drink or Sleep (screen readers call them What it is). The list under the search field shows places of that kind only, from OpenStreetMap.
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| In this area | Nothing typed yet: places of the tab's kind around the middle of your spots, nearest first. A guide whose spots lie far apart, across countries, gets no list until you type. |
| Results | The places whose name matches what you typed, near your spots first. |
Each row shows the place's name, its category as the map data names it (a hut becomes a Mountain hut, a station a Train) and where it is. Places already in the guide, by name or with a pin of the same kind within about 50 m, are left out.
Add on a row makes the helper with its name, its pin and that category, closes the dialog and opens the helper's form, where you tick its spots. A place missing from the map: type its name, and the last row adds it by that name alone, Set its pin in the form. It takes the tab's usual category, Car park, Cable car, Restaurant or Hotel, which you can change in the form. Cancel closes the dialog.
When the place search does not answer, the dialog says so; add the helper by its name and set its pin in the form.
The helper form
A helper opens in the spot form, in a short shape. All helpers goes back to the list, and Previous helper and Next helper step through it, as on a spot. Like a spot, the form saves with the guide bar's button, and asks before your unsaved changes would be lost.
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Title | The helper's name. Required. |
| Categories | What it is, the same field as on a spot: the first category is the helper's icon on the map. Add a See & do category and save, and it becomes a spot. |
| Two fields by kind | See the table below. Free text, shown to buyers as you write it. |
| Location | Its pin, like a spot's: paste a Google Maps link or coordinates, or Pick on map. Distances to its spots are measured from it, in a straight line. |
| For which spots | Every spot of the guide, nearest first, each with its photo and its distance. Tick the spots this helper is for; a tick links at once, without the form's save. The count beside the heading, like 2 linked, says how many are ticked. |
The two fields follow the helper's first kind:
| Kind | Fields |
|---|---|
| Parking | Cost, Fills up by |
| Get around | Open, Website |
| Eat & drink | Open, Price |
| Sleep | Open, Cost |
A website typed without https://, like ebenalp.ch, gets it when you save. Facts an AI agent set through the Creator API, such as the operator or a booking link, stay with the helper when you save these fields.
Advanced options holds only Archive or delete. Archive hides the helper from buyers with your next publish and keeps it saved; Unarchive puts it back. Delete helper asks Delete this helper? first: the helper leaves the guide with its links to spots and routes and its stops in itineraries. Keep helper closes the dialog. Unlike a spot, a helper can be deleted after the guide has buyers.
Links
A link joins two pins of the guide and shows on both: the car park you tick for Seealpsee here is in Seealpsee's Linked box, and the other way round. Which group a linked pin shows under comes from its own categories. A spot that is also a restaurant, like Äscher, can be linked under another spot's Eat & drink, so nothing is entered twice.
On a spot, the Linked box links helpers from the spot's side, with a picker per group. See Linked.
Buyers see a spot's linked helpers on its page, grouped under Parking, Get around, Eat & drink and Sleep, nearest first with the distance. On the map, a selected spot shows its helpers with a dashed line to each, and a helper's card shows its categories, its fields and the spots it is for.