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  • September 19, 2014 at 9:23 am #15865

    Rich B
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    Ok ive become a little confused about how to do this so thought I should ask the group for some help 🙂

    I have a site which will be listing services from all over the country (UK) and rather than searching for a service name, visitors will be searching by area (County, City, Village, road name, etc etc). I know this is possible with the ‘Near’ search field but it does not autocomplete. If I start typing in say ‘Oxf” for Oxford in the near field it does not autocomplete like the backed does when adding a listing. Also im not sure if just using the near field can be used in conjunction with filters like the radius (Search by distance)…

    My question really is: Am I using the right approach here and how do I best use GeoDirectory for a country based services search?

    September 19, 2014 at 12:08 pm #15866

    Guust
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    I would just use the location switcher and the main map, so people can zoom or move the map where they want, or use the location switcher to drill down to the village.
    The location switcher autocompletes any location that is in the database.

    September 19, 2014 at 2:36 pm #15876

    Rich B
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    Thanks Guust, one drawback of the location switcher is that a visitor would have to select Region and City is that correct? I would prefer if the visitor can just type directly into a search field…

    September 19, 2014 at 6:28 pm #15909

    Paolo
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    If in multilocation >> Show location switcher in menu >> List all Countries, Regions, Cities is enabled, they don’t need to select country / region to get all cities.

    Is that a solution?

    Thx

    September 21, 2014 at 11:16 am #16015

    Rich B
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    Paolo

    Thank you I have enabled this option, however I still see Region and City as separate search areas / dropdowns in the location switcher

    September 21, 2014 at 12:23 pm #16021

    Guust
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    What Paolo means is that you have to choose “List all Countries, Regions, Cities.” in your multilocation settings, that way you can search for cities only, you do not have to search for regions but you can if you want to.

    You can hide the regions field with CSS if you don’t want people to search by region.

    September 22, 2014 at 8:11 am #16088

    Rich B
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    Guust, thank you for clearing that up. So is there no current way of having one search field into which a visitor can type a region, city, village, road name?

    September 22, 2014 at 9:55 am #16092

    Guust
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    No, that is not possible with GD.

    September 22, 2014 at 11:11 am #16104

    Rich B
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    September 22, 2014 at 12:58 pm #16120

    Guust
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    I am not sure, I know there are a few autocompleter plugins for the normal WP search, but to get this customisation built for you, you would have to post it in the GD jobs forum and see if anybody wants to give you a hand.

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