Geoanames City Autocomplete?

[godrob]

Hi Support,

I’m a little unsure what this feature should do, can somebody please explain in detail?

I’ve created an account at geonames.org and inputted my username into Sweet Date. I’ve created a text profile field called ‘City’ as instructed and in the ‘Country Code’ setting have inputted GB for Great Britain as my site is only for the UK (we don’t use a Country field.)

Maybe I’m misunderstanding what this feature does, but I was hoping that the ‘City’ field would now automatically populate the users city when they registered. Anyway, nothing seems to happen, the field is always blank. Am I missing something here?

Thanks
Rob

[Laura]

Hello, the city works with country, it shows city of the selected country so user can select it much easier, so it help others find people of the same city.

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[godrob]

Thanks, Laura, but I still can’t get this to work.

1) In the instructions on Sweet Date is say to:

Geonames username
This field is required for the service to work. Get one from geonames.org and enable the free service from your account

Now, I have created an account with Geonames and have a username, but where do you enable the free service from your account? I can’t see that anywhere?

2) I have a City text field created and now a Country Drop Down Box. In the Country Drop Down Box I select the Country United Kingdom.

The City field remains blank?

[Laura]

Hello, the city should be selected in Sweetdate > Buddypress
Geonames and Buddypress config are in attachments. Once you have the username set, it should work, in the city, type something like “Lo” and wait to see what it gets, like London.

Geonames: http://www.geonames.org/manageaccount
Login and then click on enable free services.

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[godrob]

Thank you, Laura that’s fixed it! I didn’t have the service enabled at Geonames end. Duh!

Just one more thing. What I’d like to achieve is for the user to HAVE to select a city name from the list, rather than have the option to type what ever they like. Is it possible to force the user to select from the list of cities that are generated?

Thanks again
Rob.

[Laura]

Hello, actually i do not know if thats possible, but, if they type, for example london, instead of London from the autocomplete, it will still work.

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