I am trying to configure a view that is supposed to show my mapped nodes based on filter criteria set by the users. For example I need the user to be able to select a country and the view should display all nodes from that country. I am adding a filter on the "Location: Country" field and I am exposing it. The problem I am having is that the exposed filter is just a text field.
By trial and error I discovered that if I type Canada, the view will return nothing. But if I type CA, it will give me the nodes from Canada.

Obviously I cannot expect my users to use country codes ;-) So there must be a solution to this:
Either (1) configure the filter to somehow use the full country name or (2) have the filter to be exposed as a drop-down box (instead of plain text box).

Can you help me with that? Which of these are possible?

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kirilius’s picture

kirilius commented

Any ideas?

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jasontanner commented

I don't believe what you want is possible at the moment. I think the location views integration is a work-in-progress.

Personally, I'd flag this behaviour as a bug.

kirilius’s picture

kirilius commented

I would think that it is a bug too. Obviously the feature is there but no one would use country codes instead of names.

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kirilius commented

Bumping this up. Is there any update on this issue?

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bdragon commented
Assigned: Unassigned » bdragon

Working on it now.

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bdragon commented
Category: support » feature
Status: Active » Fixed

OK, implemented.
Thanks for the request.
http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=153454

kirilius’s picture

kirilius commented

Thanks, I will try!

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kirilius commented

Ok, I found the updated files and applied them over my installation of Location.

When I try to create a filter on the Location: Country field, I get the following message:

warning: reset() [function.reset]: Passed variable is not an array or object in /home/hahaha/public_html/sites/all/modules/location/handlers/location_handler_filter_location_country.inc on line 83.
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bdragon commented

OK, I think this might help..
http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=153499
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/location/ha...

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jasontanner commented

Any chance of modifying the theming so that the dropdown does not go outside the containing filter block div ?

Also, would this be an opportune time to include the possibility of a region selector (e.g. EUrope, Middle East, Africa, Americas etc ...)
And finally, being able to have a filter (autocomplete or dropdown) on the city selector that uses the selected country to select from the towns in the locations tables would be nice.

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kirilius commented

Thanks, that did it!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.