The content providers one the sites I maintain post regularly occurring events that take place at various locations. The locations repeat without a pattern, and thus each of the events must be entered individually each time the event occurs.

It would be a time saver for the content proividers of the site if the "Location name:" form were one of the newer auto-complete forms I have seen here and there around 4.7. A menu would drop down from the "Location name" form with the names of location names already in the database. Once a location name is selected, each of the location forms for that name would be filled automatically. (i.e. Street, City, State, Postal Code, etc.)

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geodaniel’s picture

geodaniel commented

That would be a nice feature to have. How would you envisage it working though? Would you

  1. have a back end area where you would set up these locations, and then from the node you would only be able to select these, or
  2. allow people to select from list if it's there, and customise it for this node if they wish. If it's not there, they can just enter a new address

The first isn't supported by the module at present - having a library of preconfigured addresses that can be called upon - whilst the second wouldn't be too difficult to implement as it's just checking through existing addresses and copying their information over using AJAX.

pcwick’s picture

pcwick commented

#2 would be perfect. Wish I knew how to create that feature myself.

geodaniel’s picture

geodaniel commented

You may also be interested in the discussion over at http://groups.drupal.org/node/835

catch’s picture

catch
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Title: Auto-Complete » Auto-Complete for location names
Version: 4.7.x-1.x-dev » 5.x-2.7

Looks like still a valid feature request to me, either that or 'won't fix' since I'd imagine a lot of people do stuff like this with nodereference by now. Bumping anyway.

bdragon’s picture

bdragon commented

http://drupal.org/node/190179 marked duplicate.

yesct’s picture

yesct commented
Status: Active » Postponed
Issue tags: +location cool idea, +location auto-complete

Tagging.

This sounds really cool. If someone wants to create a patch to implement this, please do. Since this has been inactive for over a year, I'll mark it postponed for now, because this might be an idea worth investigating in the future.

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ankur commented
Status: Postponed » Closed (won't fix)

As mentioned by catch in comment #4 above, this type of function can be achieved through an autocompleting node-reference field.