rwilki

So, essentially what’s the big difference between list 1 and list 2? List 1 is detailed list, and list 2 is directory, I guess I’m not seeing the need for both?

The display name, for example, links to “…/memberdetails/?filter=1&ID=350” in your demo. What linktype did you use for that? It’s not working on my site and how do I configure what appears on that details page?

The display name link on the memberdetails page, goes to another page “…/users/tashaweber/” is that an author page?

Is there a way to configure it so we don’t have both?

Thanks,
Bob

Thanks @anmari! I’ll check it out. Do I need the plus version to have multiple search filters?

Thanks.

never mind. it was amazingly simple! I didn’t realize that the plugin created some pages where I can define the appropriate template.

wow!!!!

I’ve been using this plugin for a long while and loved it. Looks like I’ll have to move on also…

Thanks MRWeb! Looking forward to enhancements. If you want to send me a link to the beta version, I’d love to give it a shot.

Thanks,
Bob

Never mind. I just noticed my editor did not close a URL used on a featured page.

Thanks for your reply. I’m looking to have repeated questions in a certain array.

For example…
Contact 1:
Name
Phone
Email

Contact 2:
Name
Phone
Email

etc… So, I don’t want people searching by Contact 1 or Contact 2, but rather by Name, Phone, Email.

Does this make sense?

Roland, in order to have a custom search control, do I need to create an API or can I create a template and hardcode in PHP similar to your example and use shortcode to present a search box which will search for all of my fields?

I tried to circumvent the column select drop-down with CSS, but as you know the search function still requires it.

Thanks for your reply.

So, the plugin cannot do an unfiltered search out of the box; meaning to have the search input field search all fields without the select input beneath?

I assume the example you’re showing is for a template?
Would this be the shortcode? [pdb_list filter=”name1,name2,name3″]

Just not following how I can customize the search function from what normally displays.

works great Thanks!

Gotcha! Thanks…

Thanks Roland! Your information is what I was looking for. I figured that I’d have to create custom templates and that’s fine with me.

For search results templates, do you think I’ll need to create a custom one for default view and for detailed view? I know how to edit shortcode to pull in a custom template, but I’m not sure how to create and call a custom detailed template.

I may be in touch on the customization part. I’ll see what I can do first…

Thanks,
Bob

Thanks Roland, I’m quite comfortable with CSS, I only threw the numbers in there for the purposes of this discussion. You’re right numbers don’t play well in CSS.

So this is the code my results are spitting out. I’ve tried using pseudo classes in my CSS but it’s still not displaying the columns as stacking blocks. This is just a small output of my entire single record. I’ve tried a class for example of “th.name_of” and “th.address” with display:block; etc… but it has no visual effect on my output.

Just to be clear, I’d prefer stacking results over columns. Columns won’t play nice with the amount of data my records contain and for mobile views.

<tr>
<th class="name_of" scope="col">Name of</th>
<th class="address" scope="col">Address</th>
<th class="city" scope="col">City</th>
<th class="zip" scope="col">Zip Code</th>
<th class="county" scope="col">County</th>
<th class="website_url" scope="col">Website URL</th>
<th class="phone_number" scope="col">Phone Number</th>
<th class="fax_number" scope="col">Fax Number</th>
</tr>

Regarding the search controls thanks for your advice. I’m keen on doing this in HTML, but if I’m using shortcodes, I have no idea where to begin. Do you have any other examples of search shortcode strings?

Guess I’m making you work for my small tip…

Thanks so much!
Bob

Thank you CodePeople. I’ll be in touch when I purchase the Dev version!

Thanks again.