Filling the Smart Map side bar with data from your custom queries works exactly the same as filling balloon windows, except for one feature. The SideBar Template has an additional feature that allows you to specify what text you would like Smart Map to wrap with a hyperlink. The hyperlink is used to open a corresponding balloon window when clicked.
How it works
In the Sidebar Template window of Query Manager, whatever text that you want to activate with a special hyperlink, wrap in parenthesis and angle brackets <(...)> as demonstrated in the following examples. Smart Map will look for this bracket pattern at runtime and wrap the text with a speical hyperlink that opens the info window above the corresponding icon.
Examples
<(Click to Open Window)>
OR
<([[Title]])>
The former example links static text while the latter replaces a column name [[columnname]] with corresponding column data from the executed query at runtime and wraps activates this text with a special hyperlink.
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See Also
Query Manager
Filling Balloon Windows with Custom Data