geofield proximity in views

Posted by pcbudde on January 5, 2013 at 1:40pm

Ive been trying to setup a view where the distance to users is stated.

There has recently been an update of geofield however I am having trouble with calculating the distances to users (only get a zero)

I have checked whether the users have points, which they do, and tried to create a relationship to the user id without results.

I am a newbee in views so every advice would be beneficial

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geofield proximity in views

Posted by lzimmerman on February 25, 2013 at 4:02pm

Hi pcbudde,

At first I also received only zeroes in the proximity field.

I had created an addressfield field for user location, as well as a geofield field which used that addressfield to store geocoded data.

In views, I set the "Geocoded Location - proximity" settings to:
Round: [checked]
Source of Origin: Current User
Source Field: [name of geocoded user field]

Still zero; I returned to my test user page and manually entered a location (rather than relying on Smart IP/automatic geolocation) and saved the data.

I also succeeded in adding a contextual filter for User Location:
- Selected filter: Global: Null
- Selected "Provide Default Value" for "When the filter value is NOT in the URL:"
- For Default Value type, selected in dropdown menu:
Visitor location attribute (via IP Geolocation)
- For "Location attribute to use," selected "Postal Code."

After updating user data and adding the contextual filter, I received non-zero results for the proximity field.

However, deleting the filter did not change results, so I believe it was the newly-saved user data that made a difference.

Hope this helps in your troubleshooting.