Location Validation when adding a new listing

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August 31, 2017 at 6:30 am #393665

Andrea Piaggesi
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Hi,
I’ve tried to search the forum but I’ve not found a reply to this question.
Is it possibile to restrict the location field in the listing form to Google only?
So when a user will add a new listing, the form should permit to search and select the location and deny any arbitrary text that don’t match any proposed location from google.

I would like to get only Google verified locations in my database.

Thanks!
Andrea

August 31, 2017 at 6:35 am #393669

Kor
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Hi Andrea,

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August 31, 2017 at 4:48 pm #393792

Paolo
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Hi,

currently that is not possible, but I asked to the developers to check if there is a workaround.

Thanks

August 31, 2017 at 6:34 pm #393817

Stiofan O’Connor
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I can’t think of a super easy way to do this. If you can explain the idea more maybe i can think of something? Is it just addresses you are worried about?

Stiofan

August 31, 2017 at 7:52 pm #393837

Andrea Piaggesi
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Hi,
sorry for the delay.
I’ve hided region and city because when the user click on the location suggestion these fields are automatically updated.

I think that the Google suggestion are perfect for me so I would like to limit the location scope to Google results only.

By doing this I’ll be sure that region and country will be autocompleted so I can safely hide them.

Many thank for all the help guys.
Andrea

August 31, 2017 at 7:54 pm #393838

Andrea Piaggesi
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September 1, 2017 at 9:33 am #393909

Stiofan O’Connor
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Basically you just dont want them changing the region/city manually? If so then should it not work like that already if you hide them? The GPS info will not be filled in unless they select the google address or they drag the map.

Stiofan

September 1, 2017 at 10:03 am #393912

Andrea Piaggesi
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Yess it works in this way but if somebody write an address that does not match a google address or location Region and City get the default values.

So the map will get a wrong point.

Basically I have to disable Region and City (don’t ask me why…it’s a long story), by hiding them I would like to lock the Location from the user on only google results.

Anyway I’ve got a lot of support here, so don’t drive you mad, if you can find a quick workaround ok otherwise I think it’ll be fine.

Thanks!
Andrea

September 1, 2017 at 11:33 am #393922

Stiofan O’Connor
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so maybe the solution is to blank the gps info or the city info on page load if the post is new, depending on what error message you want to show.

Stiofan

September 1, 2017 at 2:06 pm #393937

Andrea Piaggesi
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Yess good idea, I’ll blank them and write something about picking the location from the Google list.

These fields can be only mandatory right?

Thanks!
Andrea

September 1, 2017 at 3:10 pm #393944

Stiofan O’Connor
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yes they are required.

September 6, 2017 at 1:22 pm #394483

Andrea Piaggesi
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Thanks guys and sorry for the delay.
I’ll try to blank the hided fields and I’ll manage error messages by jQuery.

For now it’s working 😉
Thanks guys!!
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