User Profiles, Location, CCK, and the registration form
I am creating an event based website focused around clients having events at a given location. Here is the setup i would like to achieve, but can't seem to get the settings right
User creates account, enters in standard information, and their personal/business location via the location module. At the moment I can only seem to get the location info onto the registration form using content_profile module and using the location fields for cck (not the default in the node/edit form). Once they create their account, they can add an event they are hosting giving the information on a custom 'event' node type with the location info for the individual event. So yes the business will have its location and individual events have their own location as a business might not always host the event at their place of business. Setting up the event type is completed and I can get that to work.
My primary issue, is that I can't see a way to get the user registration for to show the location form, and be able to pull up those locations on a map (ie: /map/user) as i can only get them on the registration page using the cck method, but the cck method doesnt seem to work with gmap.
My site should be going live within the next few weeks, this is one of the last things i need to do, so if anyone can provide some helpful information it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Checkout this location issue: http://drupal.org/node/363690
I believe it should fix your problem.
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Nope
That didnt seem to solve my problem. The issue seemed to be geared towrds the actual map not being able to show up. My map shows up i just can get the markers to show up properly. I want to be able to make different maps based on an argument to show different users by role or other information. Ive been looking around and have also found the Geo, and mappingkit modules. Geo seems like it is just an alternative to location which might work, but how much would that change how i already have the other event node type setup and that is working. Also if i were to use geo instaed can i still add the location info to the user form? with geo it seems that the user would have to enter their coordinated which I would rather avoid vs an address. also the mapping kit seems like it could help but i cant find much on it on how to use it and how it would work with gmap and location modules.
The last option in modules i have seen is the nice maps module, which states that you can show users in a given area by taxonomy or role. This seems like it would be perfect, but Dont want to use that and abandon location/gmap if it doesnt work how I want it to. If I were to use that could I add the location or address info to the registration form?
One last thing is that in various posts i have read that for the account page, to enable the location for it I have to go to /admin/user/settings and enable location for the account page, but there is no such thing. I have the latest -dev version of gmap and the latest of locaiton.
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What? no "I attend local Drupal User Group" setting in profiles?
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I'm working with the latest dev location/gmap modules as well (with the patch I linked above)-- there definitely should be a location settings fieldset at the very bottom of the user settings page (its below the buttons for some reason). You'll probably have to get that sorted out before troubleshooting any further.
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I was using the latest dev of
I was using the latest dev of location amd gmap as well. I was talking to another user about this situation and they had the settings on the user settings page, but they were using rc1, so i upgraded from dev to rc2 and the settings still did not appear. Then i disabled and uninstalled and reinstalled and the settigns appeared on the page. Im not sure if it was a bug somewhere or what. I just recently accomplished this and havent tested extensively but i still can get the user locations to show up on a custom map still. but i will try some more options and report back.
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"The level of our success is limited only by our imagination" -Aesop
What? no "I attend local Drupal User Group" setting in profiles?