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Hi Laura,
Thanks for forwarding the request. I worked through the weekend on a back-up plan that I’m comfortable with so my question about profile fields is less important now.My interest in the advanced search option was really due to the formatting of the search on the members page. Again as part of my work over the weekend I’ve settled on my key search fields. My main issue is that the search on the members page is not defined by an space in the same way as the search on the homer page. As it stands right now my members page search has the search button on a second line – all on it’s own, and if I add additional search fields they just wrap onto another line. It doesn’t look great. Is there a way of formatting the members page search – without using the Advanced Search function?
Can you give ma any formatting code that will stop my single membership level on the Membership Levels page from being full page width? It only needs to be 50%
Thanks.
You will have to excuse me if I change tack on some questions as I know I’m trying to use this theme in a way it’s not really designed for – at least from the member type perspective. Yes I’m already using member types and the issue for me is that I’ve created a number of different profile fields for each member type and unless I ask both member types to complete a field (required or not) then I can’t use it as a search field i.e. I have “Age” as a profile field for my individual member type but not for my business members because it was meaningless to them. So…..
This is why I was interested in the Advanced Profile Search – I was hoping it didn’t require all member types to have the same profile fields for the profile field to be a search option. Do you know if this is the case? If it works exactly the same way then….
Plan B. Something that would help me is if I was able to insert a line of text between User Profile Fields. I could then have all the searchable fields under one section but separate individual member type fields from business member type fields with some text like “Profile Fields Below are required for searches but are not applicable to businesses”. Question:- Is it possible to add a field that has some pre-populated Text in it, or could you add some code to create the same effect? In this way I can make it clear to users what is expected of them when they fill out the fields.
3. A related question. If I do make a wider number of profile fields available to search then the format on the members page gets messy with the search wrapping onto a second line. This is where I’m guessing the Advanced Search Accordion helps with layout. Correct?
4. If my plan B is an Option I’d like to include the Advanced Search but I can’t follow how I add this to my website. Can you help?
Thanks. In essence I’ve moved the width issue from the “Create An Account” page to the later profile set-up and ideally I’d still like to change the width but not if it changes the width of all fields. Is this possible?
Profile searches question. Am I right in thinking that a user can only search by profile fields that are REQUIRED fields and where ALL MEMBER types are required to fill the field? Note I have 2 member types -Individuals and Activities. From my testing it seems I can’t search by Age unless it’s a REQUIRED field and I have ticked it’s applicable for both member types. My problem is that it makes no sense for Activities to fill out an age!
Ideally I’d like Age to be a “Required” field but only for “Individual” member types and not “Activities” AND still allow it to be a searchable field! Can you use your magic to make this happen 🙂
My other thought was to add the Advanced Search Option instead. I’m assuming this could search profile fields that aren’t ‘Required” and therefore I could remove Age as a Required field for Activities. Do you understand what I’m trying to do here? Is the Advanced Search a whole new page or a modification of the “Members” page? Could this work?
https://archived.seventhqueen.com/sweetdate/article/add-advanced-search-members-directory
Hi Laura,
I thought I’d responded but it looks like that didn’t happen so sorry for the late reply.The change you made has created other problems as the size at 10% was too small and it impacted on all the dropdown boxes. (See attached). However, before you go and increase the percentage, I’ve realised there might be another option as I’ve decided I don’t want the ‘Age’ field on the “Create An Account” Page.
I’ve got two member types. Individuals and Activities. Once registered, I ask them to complete different profile fields. Activities don’t need an age! They also don’t need to specify who they are “Looking For”. These questions make no sense to an Activity.
So, is it possible to remove the style changes you just put in place and instead remove “Age” and “Looking For” from the Profile Details on the Create and Account Page. I will still get my members to complete these fields once they are registered if applicable. I should have though of this earlier sorry!
This would tidy up my registration process and fix the format issue.
Thanks.
Re b) Can you share ftp so i can test some codes?I’m not sure what you’re after here. Isn’t FTP file Transfer Protocol? I didn’t need to use FTP in any of my set-up. My admin is socialdating.co.nz/wp-admin and I’ve included the login and password in the extra details of the original case log. Does that help.
c) It’s the same as the other ticket, the width is set to 100% !important; at the default.css file, needs to be changed.
Can you be more specific. I’m not a programmer and I’m not sure how I need to apply your response.
Will.
