Geolocation search – Resrict by country

[Catherine Grant]

Hi,

I understand it’s not possible to restrict the location search to only one country?

Could you please point me in the right direction of where to modify the code? I can’t seem to work it out.

Cheers.

[George]

Hey Catherine,

Thank you for reaching out! I’m curious about exactly what you’re looking to do – can you clarify what location search you mean?

For example, do you mean the distance parameters in the Filterbar add-on? Or do you mean the “Near:” search area in the default search bar, which holds the location “Chicago” in this screenshot for example → https://cloudup.com/cUCfRkfEwVu

Just want to make sure I understand your goals clearly here, thanks Catherine!

— George

[Catherine Grant]

Sorry, I mean the “Near:” search area in the screeenshot you provided.

Thanks.

[George]

Thanks for clarifying that Catherine – this is unfortunately quite a complicated change to make, as far as I can tell, so while we cannot offer specific code examples here, there are a few ideas that come to mind:

First would be to simply leave the default functionality in place, and hope that users only search for events on your site where they’re reasonably expected to be. So if all your events are in the US, for example, then hopefully users will mostly just search for cities within the US and not, say, Finland.

Another option would be to use some custom JavaScript to watch for the latitude and longitude value populations for the .tribe-bar-geoloc-lat and .tribe-bar-geoloc-lng elements on the page, and if those values fall outside of the United States, then you could stop the suggested locations dropbox from even opening – or set CSS for the element just in this case that would make it invisible to the user, maybe even adding an alert style to the field element so that people know that they can’t use what they first typed.

I’m sorry about how vague this advice may be – it’s not a simple thing to modify within our default JavaScript.

Let us know if this advice helps at all, or if you have any other questions or concerns!

Thanks,
George

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