Advanced Search with proximity
By Bethany Amborn on Friday, 11 October 2013
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I saw a few posts where it mentioned that advanced search is on your list and in the pipeline. Is there anywhere to see a roadmap of features, or when certain features are coming up next?

I'd like to see something that allows the users to build a search query by adding new filters to a list. The profile fields should have a setting for whether or not the are visible in the search filters. Each filter should have the options of choosing "contains," "equal" or "not equal." The whole search should have a "match all" and "match any" setting, and some basic ability to sort by different aspects such as last activity date.

The search should DEFINITELY have a built in proximity search to return results within x miles/km of either the user or a types location.

This is one of the 3 major gaps that would need to be closed before I can migrate. I am looking forward to being able to do so!!!
Mark - testing out the RC3 and it looks fantastic. BUT - where is proximity search?? It's just like JomSocial right now, nothing in there at all to do a search on address fields within a proximity of"my location"

Please, please tell me you have this on the roadmap somewhere? This is yet another barrier to moving from JomSocial. I have the JoomlaXi advanced search right now that does proximity, but it really stinks.

This would be great for Groups as well, by the way. Something JomSocial is COMPLETELY lacking.
Bethany Amborn
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Saturday, 08 March 2014 03:09
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Hi Beth,

Do you mean Geo Location search? I then agree with you having it for Groups is very useful, in one project I'm building ES is a Church website where there are Groups that people might be interested to Join and having a Geo Location search enables them to see how far it is from their location (if the user Address is field up against the Group location address).

As to using 3rd party add-on, I'm kind of done with it unless they made a clean integration but you seldom see one unfortunately. Hopefully, StackIdeas won't get tired of listening to customers
AppWeb
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Saturday, 08 March 2014 12:04
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Hey guys,

We currently don't store the lat / longitude of an address but we'll consider this in the next release and see if we are able to include them.
Mark
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Saturday, 08 March 2014 13:54
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I'd say that it should rely on the information of a user's address information. Mark, I've got a really good idea on how to sort the address situation to make it flexible. This idea will help out other scenario's too! Unfortunately I'm sleepy right now, but perhaps I can post it tomorrow. Even if it doesn't solve the address situation, it will help others.
Josh Lewis
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Saturday, 08 March 2014 16:02
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Im also anxiously waiting for a new Advanced Search... Im desperate for an Advanced search module, where I can show the fields I want to show, and where there are dropdown and checkbox options.

Mark would you mind giving me an idea of when this might be available? I know your working so hard.. I think we are all just so pumped about ES that we just can hardly wait!! So excited

Cheers
Katie
Katie Browning
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Saturday, 08 March 2014 20:01
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Hello Katie,

I will discuss this with Sam and Jason as this requires collaboration from them. Jason is handling most of the custom fields area whilst Sam is handling the advanced search. In order for this to happen, the "address field" needs to first geocode the address value that users set (which I believe is already possible in the next RC release) but now is to get the advanced search to support proximity searching.

Need to find a proper algorithm to this (I found a few but not sure how this affects in terms of performance). This is as much as I can report to you so far, now I need to get back to work
Mark
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Saturday, 08 March 2014 22:55
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Mark,

maybe easier integration with "Api Google Maps", less load on the server

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/business/geolocation/?hl=pt-ZA
Cristiano
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Saturday, 08 March 2014 23:35
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Hello Cristiano,

We are already using geolocation to detect user location and that is all fine We are only lacking the proximity search (which isn't provided by Google Maps).
Mark
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Sunday, 09 March 2014 02:46
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Mark,

This website below:

Uses the Google Maps API to facilitate the work of the radios search, see:

Uses the Google Maps API to facilitate registration with, country, state and city, see:

This Plugin:
Cristiano
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Sunday, 09 March 2014 07:27
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Thanks for the heads up on this Cristiano
Mark
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Sunday, 09 March 2014 13:46
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