Expand Keyword Search – Include All Months

[Jonathan]

Hello –

We would like to remove the default date in the filter bar of the month view when specifically searching for keyword only.

So, if a user were to type in “Paul McCartney” the result would show the month the event titled “Paul McCartney” is currently on, as opposed to the notification “There were no results found for “Paul McCartney” this month. Try searching next month.”

Is there a way to do this? Thanks!

[Casey D]

Hello angoddard!

Thanks for contacting us. After talking to the support team, we think this functionality would break core/paradigm functionality. For example, if there was a “Paul McCartney” event in both April and in July, which event/month should it show?

The month view is built to be centered on the currently shown month, one month at a time. So functionality right now is to simply say ‘that event doesn’t exist in *this* month’.

You probably want another view for the search results you are describing, like ‘List’ view. We think you could cut up some javascript to change the view when the user clicks ‘Find Events’. This may get complicated pretty quickly though. Under what circumstances should the view change? If there are no results at all? Or only if there are no events for this month? For all events?

Unfortunately that level of customization goes beyond the scope of the forums. If you check out our Themer’s Guide, you could maybe make a template override to display what you want, but not without some serious effort.

Does this make sense? Sorry I hope it doesn’t seem like I’m making excuses! The scope of your request is just too far out of what the current core can do (and what we intended to do).

If you’re having a problem that still needs fixing, feel free to reply! Perhaps by rethinking the issue a solution may appear that fits within the scope of the plugin. We’d be happy to help where we can!

Cheers!

– Casey Driscoll

[Casey D]

Hello angoddard,

We typically close threads if there is no activity after two weeks. Feel free to create a new thread and reference this one to save you time.

Cheers!

– Casey Driscoll

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