Map Link Does Not Go To Map

Can you provide a link? I’d need to see what’s going on with the link to be able to answer this.

Hi Joe! My site is on a test server so I cannot provide a live link but I did a little investigating today and I think I know why this is happening.

So, the problem is a little different than I thought and perhaps a two-parter. When I give a valid address or include the valid lat/lon and then assign a location to an event it seems to work just fine.

BUT, when I make any change to a location (add lat/lon, correct address, etc.) the events that have that location assigned to them are not changing! They still have the old location information.

To see this do the following,

1) create a location and give it a bogus address with no lat/lon

2) create an event and assign the location from #1 to it

3) look at the event’s details page and you will see the map link now links to the calendar instead of a map. the link does not even contain google maps in it at all.

4) open the location and change the address and/or lat/lon to be a correct location that Google can find and save the location

5) look at the event’s details page and you will still see the old info and a broken map link

6) open the event for editing and you will see in the location dropdown there is nothing assigned there

7) assign the updated location and everything works

So, hopefully there are two things you can look into addressing here,

1) most important is that locations, after editing, should be reflected in the events automatically. It would be quite a lot of work to have to reassign the location to every event whenever info in the location changes!!

2) and it would be best if the map link was not displayed when no valid map link could be created.

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Thanks so much for your support and assistance!!

1) This is not what My Calendar does, and never has. It’s possible that I’ll make that change in the future, but it’s a pretty huge change to make. The reason I have it set up like this is because I want historical events to retain the location where they took place, rather than the location that event would *now* take place.

2) I’d have to see the link itself to verify this; it should already be the case, but there may well be an edge case where the link will still end up showing up.

Oh, that’s too bad. I think most people are just going to assume that changes to a location would be automatically reflected in the event that has that location assigned to it. I guess I will just have to be very careful that all locations are entered perfectly before using them in events. If you ever change this I would really like to get that update!

And regarding the historical accuracy issue, if you do change how this works in the future, it should be pretty straightforward to simply update upcoming events with the updated location info and leave past events with the old info. Even there I’d prefer to let the user decide because I would bet most of the time the correction to a location will apply retroactively as locations do not often change, rather, a data entry error is far more likely and an error should be corrected retroactively I would think!

Regarding the invalid link you can see this easily if you go through the steps I outlined. Or, even simpler,

-create a location with only a name (or any that has an invalid address but leaving out address is the quickest way to see this issue)
-assign that location to an event
-go to that event’s details page and you will see the map link but it does not go to Google Maps (in the code it has a href=”)

It would be nice if the link is going to be empty anyway, due to an empty location address or an invalid one or whatever reason, that it simply not be displayed.

Thanks for your support!