Add Listing Process

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October 3, 2017 at 1:26 am #398583

Joy
Buyer

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Hello, when a user adds a listing from the front end, even if they state that they are NOT a business owner or associate, they are still credited as the author. Doesn’t that give them control of the listing? I would prefer that all listings be credited to admin, users should complete the claim process to gain ownership of a listing.

Also, at the end of the “Add Listing” process, users are directed to the Listing Successful page. When you click on “View your submitted information” you arrive at an error page, because the listing that they just submitting is a draft and not published yet.

Is this the way that it’s intended to run? Thank you.

October 3, 2017 at 1:32 am #398585

Joy
Buyer

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Update: I figured out how to get the new listing to be published immediately.

For anyone who may need guidance: Geodirectory > Design > Listings

However, I’m still concerned about the author of the listing. I will change the “View your submitted information” in the language file, because I do prefer to be able to review the listing before it goes live.

October 3, 2017 at 1:43 am #398586

Joy
Buyer

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Me…again.

SO! It looks like even though the user is the “Author” of the listing, it doesn’t grant them ownership until you link it through the GD Claim Listing settings.

Crisis averted. Ignore me. Sorry!

October 3, 2017 at 1:44 am #398587

Guust
Moderator

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The author will always be the author unless the author is changed by the claim process.
Authors that state they are not the owner of the business, should not be credited as the business owner [as in verified listting], but they are credited as the author depending on the theme.

On submission , the “View your submitted information” link should take them to a temporary page, only the user can see at that time. But not later, if listings are set to go to draft.

October 3, 2017 at 1:54 am #398588

Joy
Buyer

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Okay, is there any way to remove the business owner part of the add listing form? I would like it to always be forced to “No” by default. Users don’t provide phone numbers in sign ups and I want to be able to verify the owners before releasing the listing to them.

I know that I could add phone numbers in the registration form, but I think it would deter signups because that’s not common information that people normally share.

October 3, 2017 at 1:56 am #398589

Joy
Buyer

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On submission , the “View your submitted information” link should take them to a temporary page, only the user can see at that time. But not later, if listings are set to go to draft.

In addition, I am not seeing this. I have tried to change the add listing form settings to both: Pending Review and Draft. On either of these settings, when I try to click on “View your submitted information” link, I am taken to an error page.

October 3, 2017 at 11:04 am #398608

Guust
Moderator

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Please post URL and WP admin details so we can review the submission process.

I’ll get Stiofan to look at your other question:

is there any way to remove the business owner part of the add listing form, but still keep the claims addon. So set the question “business owner?” always to be NO

Thanks

October 3, 2017 at 11:17 am #398611

Stiofan O’Connor
Site Admin

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There is no way to do it by default but some people have modded it to do what they want.

Stiofan

October 3, 2017 at 4:16 pm #398642

Joy
Buyer

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October 3, 2017 at 4:22 pm #398647

Stiofan O’Connor
Site Admin

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You can set the new listing to “pending review” and check it out before publishing.

Stiofan

October 3, 2017 at 4:26 pm #398648

Joy
Buyer

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Yes I understand that. Putting two separate processes together just seems messy.

October 3, 2017 at 11:14 pm #398687

Guust
Moderator

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To me it is messier for business owners to submit a listing and then have to claim it in a separate process. They might think that they submitted their listing and that is the end of the story, no-one asked them if they were the business owner or not …

Just my 2 cents 🙂

October 3, 2017 at 11:28 pm #398690

Joy
Buyer

Post count: 1076

Yes, I suppose it could be confusing that way as well. I appreciate your 2 cents 😉

I just figured since the notifications were there, that the “Add Listing” process would all follow the same flow:

1) Submit listing
2) Receive confirmation email of published listing(this is where the email could be edit to ask business owners to claim their listings)
3) Owners claim listings
4) Receive confirming email of claimed listing

Allowing a separate process for the add listing and claim listing also allows owners to have separate personal and business accounts. I think many owners would prefer to leave reviews as a consumer rather than as another business owner. Proving the option to claim a business after it’s published would just be more flexible.

P.S. Since Stiofan said that others have been able to edit this to their needs, I’ll have a look see. The last time I checked though, it seemed that it was only possible to hide the “business owner/associate” links if you remove the claim option from the post type.

October 3, 2017 at 11:47 pm #398693
Joy
Buyer

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Just added this code snippet and it remove the business owner/associate option:
```
remove_action('geodir_before_main_form_fields' , 'geodir_add_claim_fields_before_main_form', 1);
```
When I tried it before it didn’t work because my plugin wasn’t updated. Now it works. 🙂
October 3, 2017 at 11:50 pm #398694

Guust
Moderator

Post count: 29970

Allowing a separate process for the add listing and claim listing also allows owners to have separate personal and business accounts.

User accounts and GD listings are completely different things. Anyone can register as many user accounts as they have email addresses.
I can have 3 user accounts on your site and no listings, or I can have one user account and have 10 listings.

Thanks
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