Results *not* supressed pre-search

  • Resolved TxFig

    (@txfig)


    2 years, 8 months ago

    In question posted by another user who asked how to suppress the list of people in a directory until after a search button was pressed, it was suggested that the addon called “quicktip-show-no-entries-until-user-performs-a-search/” would do it. And for that user, it seems to have worked.

    But not for me. I installed the addon, went to the main settings, under the search tab, and selected the option for “Suppress Results”. Not only were the results not suppressed, there is now a weird extra little box above the 2 searches (circled in red in the image https://txapbr.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/NotSupressed.jpg).

    But all of this really just makes me wonder if I am building this page the way that Connections thinks I should…

    Not only do I not want a list of our members displayed until a person chooses both of the boxes above, I need the search box & categories boxes for the results to be removed (the part circled in yellow).

    Right now the page has 3 sections in Elementor:

    1. top one is just informational text
    2. middle one contains this short code:
      [cn_multi_category_search category='2|This is a swarm|Is this a Swarm or a Full Colony?,1||In what County (in Texas) are the bees located?' enable_keyword=false]
    3. bottom one contains this short code:
      [connections enable_pagination=false show_image=false image=none image_fallback=none image_single_fallback=none image_single=none str_select='What County are you in?' str_select_all='' enable_category_by_root_parent=TRUE enable_map=TRUE show_addresses=TRUE card_width=370 card_height=180 str_seperator=''? str_image='' str_contact='' str_home_addr='' str_work_addr='' str_school_addr='' str_other_addr='' str_home_phone='' str_home_fax='' str_cell_phone='' str_work_phone='' str_work_fax='' str_personal_email='' str_work_email='']
    • This topic was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by TxFig.

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  • Plugin Author Steven

    (@shazahm1hotmailcom)

    RE: another user who asked how to suppress the list of people in a directory until after a search button was pressed, it was suggested that the addon called “quicktip-show-no-entries-until-user-performs-a-search/” would do it. And for that user, it seems to have worked. But not for me.

    That developer code snippet does not work with the advanced search beta addon.

    RE: there is now a weird extra little box above the 2 searches (circled in red in the image

    If you are going to use the advanced search, then you should disable the templates search features. Please add the following to the existing [connections] shortcode.

    enable_search=false enable_category_select=false

    You can remove the following option since the features are being disabled:

    str_select='What County are you in?' str_select_all='' enable_category_by_root_parent=TRUE

    When I visit your directory page, the “boxes” shown by the two category dropdowns in the screenshot are not there. They appear to be correct.

    https://connections-pro.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2022-07-13_09-14-08.png

    That can happen when another plugin (or theme) is also “enhancing” the dropdowns with their code.

    The solution is to do the theme/plugin conflict checks to identify which other plugin is causing the issue. If the identified plugin has an option to turn that feature off, turn it off. You might have to choose to deactivate that plugin if it does not.

    I hope this helps!

    If you require further assistance and since your questions were related to paid addons for Connections…

    The wp.org support forum policies do not permit the support of commercial plugins or commercial addons to free plugins listed in the wp.org plugin directory in their support forums. Please open a support ticket in your account. Here’s the link:

    Thanks for your understanding! When you open the support ticket, I’ll reply asap.

    Thread Starter TxFig

    (@txfig)

    Actually that pretty much solved my problem. To be honest, I wasn’t certain if I really wanted the list of members to be displayed before filtering or not… so I am ok with having it there prior to hitting the search button (I may just re-word it so the visitors understand they are narrowing down the list instead).

    I do have 1, sort of related question:
    What custom CSS do I use to change the size of the boxes, font, etc for the multi_category_search shortcode? For that matter, I would really love to have those 2 boxes side by side (in columns?). With a much smaller search button.

    Plugin Author Steven

    (@shazahm1hotmailcom)

    Apologies, I missed your follow-up question.

    Please see these FAQS:

    I hope this helps; please let me know.

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