# Floorplan minimap settings in the Design tab URL: https://www.panoramr.com/help/design-floorplan-minimap Category: Design and branding Keywords: minimap, mini map, floorplan minimap, corner map, street map in the corner, plan in the corner, floor plan position, collapse minimap, resize minimap Last checked: 2026-10-31 Every setting of the Floorplan minimap panel in the Design tab and of the side menu link to the plan: where it is, what it starts as and what visitors see. The minimap is a small copy of the tour's floor plan, or a street map of where its panoramas were taken, that floats in a corner of the tour: a pin for each scene, the pin of the room a visitor is in marked with a radar cone, and a click on a pin takes them there. This page lists every setting of the Floorplan minimap panel (Design tab > Floorplan minimap) in the **Design** tab, in the order the panel shows them, and the two settings of the side menu's link to the plan. Uploading a plan and pinning its scenes is done on the **Floor Plans** tab: see [Add a floor plan and a minimap to a tour](https://www.panoramr.com/help/adding-floor-plans-and-interactive-minimaps-to-your-tours). **Who can use it.** The owner and, by default, an Admin collaborator can open the Design tab. The panel is in the **Advanced** view only; the **Basic** view does not list it. Every plan has the minimap, but a tour needs at least one floor plan, or, with **Show** on **Map** or **Both**, a panorama with a location: with neither, nothing is drawn whatever the switch says. A tour on a Free plan that wears a Pro theme and has never been hosted shows visitors the free Default look, which has the minimap on at the top right. **When visitors get a change.** The preview beside the panels shows it at once. Visitors get it after you click **Save & Render**, or after **Publish changes** when the tour uses Draft Workflows ([My changes do not show for visitors](https://www.panoramr.com/help/when-do-changes-show)). ## Turn it on ### Enable minimap The switch at the top of the panel shows the floating map over the tour. It starts on. **Where:** the Floorplan minimap panel (Design tab > Floorplan minimap), the switch at the top. Advanced view. **Default:** `on` **What it does:** Draws the plan in a corner of the player. A dot beside **Floorplan minimap** in the list of modules shows that it is on. **What visitors see:** The floor plan with a pin for each scene, in the corner chosen by **Screen position**. With the switch off the corner map is gone; the plan can still be opened from a bar icon or the side menu link. **Needs:** At least one floor plan on the **Floor Plans** tab, or panoramas with a location when **Show** is **Map** or **Both**. With several plans a list at the foot or top of the map switches between them, and the map follows a visitor to the plan that holds their scene. **Related:** [Add a floor plan and a minimap to a tour](https://www.panoramr.com/help/adding-floor-plans-and-interactive-minimaps-to-your-tours). ## What it shows ### Show Choose whether the corner shows the floor plan, a street map, or both. **Where:** the Floorplan minimap panel (Design tab > Floorplan minimap), card **What it shows** > **Show**. Advanced view. **Default:** **Floor plan** (`floorplan`) **What it does:** **Floor plan** shows the plan from the **Floor Plans** tab. **Map** shows a street map with a pin for each panorama that has a location (its **Latitude** and **Longitude** on the **Panoramas** tab). **Both** shows the plan first, with a `Plan` / `Map` switch at the top of the box. **What visitors see:** The plan or the map in the corner. On the map the pin of the room they are in is marked, a click on a pin takes them to that room, and the map moves to follow them. The cone that shows which way they are looking is drawn on the map only for a panorama whose photo has a compass direction; others have the pin alone. **Needs:** For the map, at least one panorama with a location. With **Map** chosen and no locations, the floor plan is shown; with neither a plan nor a location, the corner is empty. The map is the free OpenFreeMap map, with its credit at the foot: it never uses Google's map, so it adds nothing to your map count. **Related:** [Add locations to your panoramas](https://www.panoramr.com/help/adding-geolocation-data-and-openstreetmap-integrations). ## Placement These settings are in the card **Placement**. ### Screen position Choose which corner of the player the map sits in. **Where:** the Floorplan minimap panel (Design tab > Floorplan minimap), card **Placement** > **Screen position**. Advanced view. **Default:** **Top right** (`top-right`) **What it does:** **Bottom left**, **Bottom right**, **Top left** or **Top right**. **What visitors see:** The map in that corner. In a top corner it makes way for the multi menu bar when that is on. **Related:** **Initial state**. ### Initial state Choose whether the map starts open or tucked away. **Where:** the Floorplan minimap panel (Design tab > Floorplan minimap), card **Placement** > **Initial state**. Advanced view. **Default:** **Expanded** (`expanded`) **What it does:** **Expanded** shows the map. **Collapsed** leaves a toggle button. **What visitors see:** A map about 250 pixels across, or a small button that opens it, named by **Button label** (`Floorplan` unless you change it). The plan's picture is fetched only when the map is shown: straight away when it starts expanded, on the first press when it starts collapsed. A visitor can also maximize the map to nearly the whole window and restore it. ## Options These settings are in the card **Options**, in the **Advanced** view. ### Allow corner resizing Let visitors resize the map. **Where:** the Floorplan minimap panel (Design tab > Floorplan minimap), card **Options** > **Allow corner resizing**. Advanced view. **Default:** `on` **What it does:** Adds a handle in the map's inner corner. **What visitors see:** A drag handle with the tooltip `Drag to resize`; the map keeps the plan's shape (the street map is a little wider than tall) and is never larger than 85 percent of the window. ### Button label The words on the map's button when it is closed, and on the side menu's link to the floor plan. **Where:** the Floorplan minimap panel (Design tab > Floorplan minimap), card **Options** > **Button label**. Advanced view. It shows only while **Enable minimap** is on. **Default:** `Floorplan` **What it does:** Sets the text of the button a closed map leaves in its corner, and of the link at the foot of the **Side nav – list menu** that opens the plan. While the link is shown as an icon only, the words are not shown there. **What visitors see:** That text on the closed map's button, and beside the side menu's link when the side menu has it. Use `Map` or `Site plan` if your plan is a map of a street or grounds. With **Show** on **Map**, the closed button says `Map`. **Needs:** For the side menu's link, **Floor Plan** switched on in the side menu's foot links. **Related:** **Floor Plan**. ## In the side menu These two settings are in the Side nav – list menu panel (Design tab > Side nav – list menu), not in the Floorplan minimap panel. ### Floor Plan Add a link to the floor plan to the foot of the side menu. **Where:** the Side nav – list menu panel (Design tab > Side nav – list menu), **Layout** tab > card **Foot links** > **Arrange & toggle icons** > **Floor Plan**. Advanced view. **Default:** `off` **What it does:** Adds a link, named by **Button label**, that opens the plan in the Media Window. It works with **Enable minimap** on or off. **What visitors see:** The link at the foot of the side menu, when the side menu is on and the tour has a plan. **Needs:** **Enable side nav** and a floor plan. **Related:** [Side nav settings](https://www.panoramr.com/help/design-side-nav-list-menu). ### Show icons as Show the foot links of the side menu with words or as a row of icons. **Where:** the Side nav – list menu panel (Design tab > Side nav – list menu), **Layout** tab > card **Foot links** > **Show icons as**. Advanced view. **Default:** **Text and icon** (`text_icon`) **What it does:** One choice sets the display mode of the three foot links the menu has always had, the floor plan among them. **Icons** drops the words from the floor plan link. **What visitors see:** The floor plan link with its words, or as a small round icon. **Related:** **Floor Plan**. ## Other places that open the plan The floor plan also opens in the Media Window from a **Floor Plan** icon in the **Icon bar**, the **Top nav bar – dropdown** and **Mobile navigation**, and from an intro page button set to **Open a window**. See [The Media window](https://www.panoramr.com/help/design-media-window). ## Troubleshooting **Visitors do not see the minimap.** Check that **Enable minimap** is on, that the tour has a floor plan with at least one pin, and that you clicked **Save & Render**. A tour in a Pro theme that was never hosted, on a Free plan, shows the Default look. **A pin does nothing when a visitor clicks it.** Its scene is not in the published tour: see [Why can't I publish my tour?](https://www.panoramr.com/help/why-cant-i-publish). **I cannot find the panel.** It is in the **Advanced** view only.