View all events in a state? Default geo-location for states?

[irishrunner16]

Hi,
We just went live with our new TEC calendar solution last week and while we are loving it, our users keep asking about a search option to return all events in a state.

I realize that the default location search uses geo-location, but was wondering if there’s an easy way to make it so that if a user enters only a state name (such as MA or Massachusetts), the search results would return all events in that particular state?

Also, would you be able to explain or provide a list of what the default geo-location is for the states? As it stands, I can enter a state abbreviation or complete state name in the location field, and the calendar returns events based on a certain location in that state. I haven’t been able to figure out what that is though.

Thanks in advance!
Sean

[Barry]

Hi Sean,

Geolocation is currently based on the coordinates of a venue (expressed as longitude/latitude) and we also have a setting that allows the site admins to specify the search distance limit, so events can be found where they are within that radius.

Trying to follow political or administrative boundaries is harder, but I see no reason why as a customization or future feature the search couldn’t be conducted on the basis of data held in venue state/province fields, either in combination with distance based searches or in isolation.

Right now though that’s not something that’s baked in, we’d need to leave it to you to explore possibilities for implementing this or else we would as always be more than happy to consider any feature requests along these lines 🙂

Thanks!

[irishrunner16]

Hi Barry,
Sounds good. Thanks for the info, I appreciate it!

[Barry]

Happy to help 🙂

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