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New Post 5/8/2009 6:10 AM
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  Jeremy
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Limiting search results to selected state/region 

My client wants to group their locations by region of England.  All locations should appear on the same map, but the user should be able to optionally select a region from the drop down list to limit the results to locations given that region.  I've added the UK regions, and deleted the US and Canadian regions using DNN's core lists, and renamed the State drop down to Region using Languages in the host menu.  So far so good...  But when I select a region and search, it appears simply to insert the text of the region into the address search string, rather than logically limit the results to those which have been given that region name.

I've tried a search on your demo site, and it seems to work in the same way - if I do a new search and select Massachusetts, the first location to appear is in MA, but then it continues to return other results in NY, PA etc..  This doesn't seem right.  Is this a bug / oversight that will be corrected in later versions, or is it intended to work like this?  Is there another way to achieve what I'm trying to do (I thought of Location Types and Custom Attributes, but I don't think this will allow users to select a region from a drop down).

Many thanks

Jeremy

 
New Post 5/8/2009 8:32 AM
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  Brian Dukes
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Re: Limiting search results to selected state/region 

That is the intended functionality for the module.  It is designed to find the closest locations to the user, which may or may not be in the same region that the user is.  (For example, if a user searches for Kansas City, Kansas, it should also find a location in Kansas City, Missouri, even though they're different states).

There isn't any built-in way to do what you're wanting, right now.  A workaround could be to use Location Types, but, you're right, there isn't a drop down list of location types you could display.  If you wanted to do that, you'd have to create a drop down or list of links, that would take you to a module setup for that specific Location Type/region.

I'll add some enhancement suggestions to allow users to filter by location type, and to consider having an option to limit by region.

Hope that helps,


Brian Dukes
Engage Software
St. Louis, MO
314.966.4000

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