[Steven Zahm]

@ Richard

RE: I have purchased the Extension Pro Bundle. If possible as you reply to the above entry could you supply details of the search form you describe and I can try and integrate it with my site.

I just sent you the info to your info????@w????.co.uk email address. Let me know if you do not receive it. Make sure you disable the category filter and keyword search field in the cMap template so the two to conflict.

RE: do you wish me to move questions to one of the other forums ?

It is fine to keep the conversation in this thread.

RE: As for city would it be possibly to amend the label but effectively load data into the State field to fool either the system or the user (one or the other).

Yes, that would be possible. Ideally ther search addon could have the city field added. The reason I did not is because it already has a zipcode/radius search and the cities in a directory could be in the hundreds/thousands would not be practical to load in a drop down.

RE: Would it be possible to add custom fields to the form to increase the search capacity.

Custom text fields, those are already searchable. The keyword search field would search the contents of those fields.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jürgen Joost

If the language is determined by a query variable, then you could display the categories based on the query variable and its value.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jürgen Joost

I’m assuming this is in regards to the Slim Plus template, correct?

It is possible, but you would have to edit the template in order to show the categories assigned to the entry.

You can add the categories to the card.php file by adding this where you want them to be displayed:

$entry->getCategoryBlock( array( 'separator' => ', ', 'before' => '<span>', 'after' => '</span>' ) );

The card.php file can be found in this folder:

../wp-content/plugins/connections-slim-plus/

I recommend following the method in this QuickTip so you can add it in an update safe way.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Janet

Offhand I can not remember, but I think this should work… Add this to your existing [connections] shortcode on the directory page image=none image_fallback='block'. The full shortcode should look like this:

[connections image=none image_fallback='block']

Hope that helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Laurie

You mean when you were mapping the CSV Import? You chose the Address One option? That makes sense. I’ll have to check that out.

[Steven Zahm]

@ maryke

Here’s a link to a tutorial on how to change labels and text in Connections.

You can use the same process to change the edit and view links but you would use connections_link for the text domain instead of connections.

What this will not do is add “placedholder” text within the fields, something which there is no easy way to do, sorry.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Lara

RE: Just wondering if there is a way to add a “Read More” button too, to make it more obvious for people.

You can use the $entry->getPermalink() function to get the URL. You can use this as a button or link.

RE: Can I change the picture links site-wide to go to that subpage now, as well?

Well, it is possible but not very easily. It would require quite a bit of editing PHP code.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Laurie

The best I can tell, and this is somewhat of a guess…

It appears you somehow added all (most) the addresses to your entries as a type 0 (as in zero) vs being of type Work, Home, School or Other.

So, what I did is I added was added a new address type of 0 and saved the settings. Then I renamed the 0 type from 0 to Address.

This made the labels what you want.

After I did that I rearranged the address type options putting the Address type at the top which makes it the default address type. Then I disabled the other address types so they are no longer available as options when adding new entries. You can enable them if you do indeed want them as options.

Having address types saved as type 0 is not ideal but should not hurt either.

Do you know happen how all the addresses were saved as type 0?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Richard

Ok, I see.

I do have an advanced search addon available to those who purchase either the pro pack or extension pro pack and request it. It’s not generally available due to it being a complex to setup, so I do offer setup as a service. If you know shortcodes well, it is really not that difficult. I can provide it and instruction if you purchase one of these those bundles. You can see an enable of it running on this live 3rd party site:

https://sscit.org/directory/

It has options to filter by state, but not city. Perhaps that will do?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Lara

RE: Can I add a read more button to link to a page with all of the information about that directory listing? For some reason the title link is not working

Add the link to where you want it to be displayed. As for the title link not working… looks like you have disabled it in the settings (or perhaps altered the template functionality). To turn it on in the settings, navigate to the Connections : Settings admin page. Click the Advanced tab and scroll to the Permalinks section. Enable the Name link option.

RE: Can I set the text that shows in category list be an excerpt instead of showing everything?

Categories do not have excerpts, you would have to code the change to truncate the text before displaying it.

RE: My google map also seems to not be working.

Load the page in Chrome. Hit the F12 key and click the Console tab. Google is telling you that you have not supplied the Google Maps API key which is required.

Please see the tutorial for setting up your Google Maps API keys.

If the map does not work after you have your Google API key, then it might be possible your changes to the template broke the display. To test this, load up an altered version of cMap to see if it works. Let me know how it goes.

RE: can I only have that on the full page only?

In the unaltered cMap template, sure. Your altered version, there is no way for me to know. In the unaltered cMap, use the Template Customizer for cMap. After it is loaded, click the back arrow in the upper left of the Customizer and then click the Map panel. Disable the display of the map. This will disable the display of the map in the results list view while leaving it enabled in the profile detail view.

Hope this helps!

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