How can I enable latitude longitude for the community events submission form?

[hikeitbaby]

How can I enable latitude longitude for the community events submission form? We have a lot of events that don’t have a proper address, and I’d like to offer them the option to enter those in if they know them. Even better to offer a link to a tool to find them out. It’s available in the backend for events, so I don’t know why it shouldn’t be for the front end. I feel like there should just an option to click on from the settings, rather than having to create a customized version of the front end template.

[Geoff]

Hey @hikeitbaby, nice to see you again and I hope all is well. 🙂

That’s an awesome idea! I’m afraid it’s a little tougher to get the venue coordinates into the Community Events submission form than it might appear but that doesn’t mean it’s not a great idea for a feature request — I can actually see how that would make moderation easier for site admins when new events with new venues are submitted.

For the moment, the only supported method is to add the venue coordinates manually after the event and new venue have been submitted.

Sorry for the bad news, but would you be willing to share that idea with us in the feature request forum? We’d definitely appreciate it!

Thanks,
Geoff

[hikeitbaby]

Hi Geoff,

We’ve been hard at work over at HikeItBaby.com. Got some new developers at 7/Apps who we are now working with us. Trying lots of ways to wrangle the 10,000 hikes we have at once, using ElasticSearch. Some success but lots of complications. You can see on our seriously modified CE page https://hikeitbaby.com/find-a-hike/submit-a-hike/ how we have an address picker for people to find the GPS through a map picker. We’re helping out another organization do something similar, but they want those fields to be publicly visible first. I’ve made a feature request for that.

Thanks for being straight up about that there isn’t anything just like a function _form_gps() that we could drop in to a modified CE template.

[Geoff]

That is REALLY sweet! I just went through the registration process (which is sweet in and of itself) and took a look at the hike submission page and it’s looking great. We actually been on the prowl for Community Events customization examples and this is an excellent example I’ll be sure to share with the team. 🙂

I am definitely sorry the calendar doesn’t offer something straightforward for editing map coordinates in the submission process, but I do like that idea and appreciate you sharing it at the very least. As I said before, I’m surprised I haven’t heard that come up before and I can imagine others finding it useful as well.

Cheers!
Geoff

[hikeitbaby]

Hi Geoff,

Looking over the CSV import process I certainly see that we can map columns in our CSV imports into Event Calendar fields “Venue Longtitude” and “Venue Latitude”. I guess I’m still a little confused as to why the C.E. can’t leave the street address fields blank if there is a Venue Longtitude and Venue Latitude fields we can map with the import. Is the CE entry process really that different?

I noticed an organization similar to us using the Events Manager plugin over here: http://nationaltrailsday.americanhiking.org/add-event/
Seems like with the EM you can drag and drop the google map pin, and it saves the GPS location data. Just thought I’d point that out to your devs.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by hikeitbaby.

[Geoff]

Hey and thanks for following up — happy Friday! 🙂

It’s just a matter of the feature having not been built into Community Events. It’s certainly possible to accomplish, but would take a fair amount of development and is something that we would need to prioritize alongside other features that are already in the works. That’s why it would be super awesome if you could share it in the feature request forum — in fact, it would be even better to add your vote to this request.

Did you have any other questions about the possibility of adding coordinates to the Community Events form? Sorry I don’t have a concrete solution or workaround for you here but I’d be happy to help as best I can!

Cheers,
Geoff

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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