Hi Anthony,

The preferences is actually located inside the dating search module itself. You can find the module from your backend > extension manager > module manager > mod_easysocial_dating_search, http://screencast.com/t/sYLhLtvx .

Hope these help.

Hi.

So only the admin can select preference which will be standard for the entire site?

Individual users can't select own preference just incase they do or do not want to show up in this search?

Hi Anthony,

So only the admin can select preference which will be standard for the entire site?

The setting preference that Ezrul mention is actually the module settings preference and yes, the module setting will be applied where the module display on your site.

Individual users can't select own preference just incase they do or do not want to show up in this search?

If your user do not want themself to be searchable by other people, your user can edit their privacy setting and set the privacy 'profile searching' to 'Me Only'. Please see screencast.com/t/MV85pGyP

Hope this help and have a nice day!

OK. I see.

Thanks again.

Sam wrote:

If your user do not want themself to be searchable by other people, your user can edit their privacy setting and set the privacy 'profile searching' to 'Me Only'. Please see screencast.com/t/MV85pGyP

That's great that there is a method for users to be able to hide themselves, however this isn't so obvious to many. Especially considering the large number of privacy options. For users in any relationship it doesn't make a lot of sense to display them on the dating module result list. Take for example if my profile had the Relationship Status set to "Engaged", it would not make a lot of sense for me to show up on the dating list. Same principles for many of the other options. The dating module should be filtered to display only people with the status of "Single, Separated, and Widowed". I won't speak for the "Divorced" status.

By doing this, the search module will be much more effective at finding people who are wanting a relationship by reducing clutter. This will also help save trouble to the people already in a relationship by not receiving requests from others which in some cases may make someone more inclined to leave the site (based on how many people bug them). Don't want to show up on the dating list? Don't go out in public saying that you are single. The same is arguably true in the real world.

In addition to these benefits, it can help non dating sites who want a simple option for users to hide themselves from a people finder list. Of course the language constant would need to be changed so that it didn't seem dating related.

Yes josh
That's great suggestions. Thats more in line with what I was thinking and hoping for.

Let's hope our good friend Mark and company do some update in this area in the next ES update.

A voice page for this should be created and linked back here. Would you like the honors of doing this? If you create one, you'll have to be sure to mention the Relationship Status custom field in how that should influence your eligibility of showing up on the dating module to give more accurate results.

Hi Josh,

Thank you for your suggestion on the dating search module and i do agree with you having the relationship field as part of the search criteria will make this dating search even better We will see what we can do to improve this dating search module in the future

Thanks and have a nice day!

I think we've said enough here to trigger an interest for an update with these features.

Let's keep our fingers crossed.

Hi Anthony,

Thanks for the heads up on this. Will mark this as resolved for now.
Have a nice day!

Ezrul Fazwan wrote:

Hi Anthony,

The preferences is actually located inside the dating search module itself. You can find the module from your backend > extension manager > module manager > mod_easysocial_dating_search, http://screencast.com/t/sYLhLtvx .

Hope these help.

Excuse me... Why I can't find this module in my EasySocial?
https://gyazo.com/e169f68a0e81854c86d36db5f272b93b

When you install EasySocial it should install the module as well. Perhaps you want to try to re-install EasySocial and ensure that the module is ticked?

By the way, please start a new thread if you are still having issues with this