Map Filter Bar Fix Con't

[Courtney]

Hello,

I’m sorry I wasn’t able to respond to this thread (https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/filter-bar-will-it-fix-another-date-issue/) before it got closed. Thanks, Nico, for trying to help me with this.

Unfortunately, when I tried it out, it returned no results on the initial view — that is, when the page loaded and before I even tried a date filter query. I was testing it out more on a staging server and noticed the the issue was not that the events didn’t load, but that the AJAX loading thing seems to get stuck and the map never loads. Here’s a screenshot: https://drive.google.com/a/arrowplane.net/file/d/0B0e_hne4XHouNk5ET0QxZGxOVms/view?usp=drivesdk

I know that sending me this code is a bit outside the normal support you’d do, so I’m not necessarily asking that you support me further on this, but I thought I’d pass this info on because I know that this is a bug you’re hoping to fix eventually and this may be useful info. Of course, if you notice something obvious missing and want to point it out, let me know!

Thanks, Courtney

[Josh]

Hey Courtney,

Thanks for following up with us.

To help expectations, reviewing the original issue and previous thread, I don’t believe this is a bug in the way the search currently works with the date. I can understand how it might be a bit misleading and we could use some terminology such as “Events from:” for the date.

For the gist, try this:

https://gist.github.com/BeardedGinger/1fa1e91361b9f59415a1

it looks like the original suggestion had the start date written twice rather than setting the start date and end date.

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

 

 

[Courtney]

Hi, Josh.

Thanks for the reply. Firstly, the gist code — when I add this to my functions.php, I then get no results on the initial view, which is not correct. So something is sill amiss there.

Secondly, maybe it isn’t a bug… but if not, it’s definitely a usability issue. The filter bar says “Date” which I think the average Joe is going to assume is a particular day in time, not a start date. In previous forum posts about this, I was told that the dev team was aware of this as an issue and are working on a fix… which I hope is still true!

In the meantime, is there a way to update the label? I’m not sure “Events From” works exactly — maybe just “Starting Date” or something. I still just don’t think people would intuitively search in that way.

Thanks, Courtney

[Josh]

Hey Courtney,

That’s definitely understandable and looking at the template now it looks like the list view already uses the “Events from” title for the date section. You can use the following snippet to update that label to be the “Starting Date” label that you suggested.

https://gist.github.com/BeardedGinger/244ac5e28b6d965e868f

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

[Courtney]

Hi, Josh.

This doesn’t make any label change, unfortunately. Are you sure this works on map view? I am only using map view on this site.

[Josh]

Hey Courtney,

Sorry about that. The previous code targeted the list view. I’ve updated the code so it’ll change for all views.

https://gist.github.com/BeardedGinger/244ac5e28b6d965e868f

Thanks!

[Courtney]

Thank you, that worked. Is there also a way to update the lighter gray text below that label? It would be nice to have them all be consistent.

Can you also confirm, then, that fixing this to work for one date is NOT on the docket? In previous conversations here on the forum, I’d been told that this was a known issue, the devs were aware of it, and it would likely be included in a future update. I and my client were really hoping that it could be resolved by January, when our website’s events are actually happening. It seems way more useful to be able to check what events are happening on a particular day (so that you can plan your outing for say a particular Saturday and try to hit as many events that are geographically near each other as you can) than to get events for date range. I’d like to emphasize our enthusiasm for this update if it’s happening is now in question.

Thanks, Courtney

[Courtney]

This reply is private.

[Josh]

Hey Courtney,

For the styling you can target the placeholder text for modifying the text in the inputs below those headings.

I’m not seeing anything specifically about this within our current issues. The closest thing is the highlighting of the selected date when showing on the month view grid. I have however added a note for our team to discuss this issue at our weekly meeting next week.

I apologize for any confusion there may have been around this feature.

Thanks!

[Courtney]

Hi, Josh.

Sure, I can use CSS if that’s the best route. I guess I was thinking because the other label had been updated via code that this should be, too, if only for consistency’s sake.

[Josh]

Hey Courtney,

You can update the content via code but how it displays will be updated using the CSS route.

Thanks!

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