Tell us what you are trying to do?
I want a country field people can use to filter my map of projects.
It appears that a drop-down is not available for some reason (not allowed). You will see currently Im using a single line of text but that leaves the possibility of people spelling a country wrong and having multiples of the same country listed in the map.
Is there any documentation that you are following?
I tried to copy https://discover-wp.com/site-types/gyms-and-trainers/
It would be preferrable if we could add the country of the address field as a drop-down to sort by.
I actually don't see any way in the post editor to modify what I copied over from gyms demo.
What is the link to your site?
The site is private, in development. I can send login if needed
Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.
I would like to know - how you want to setup the Country field? With Gym demo site the Country dropdown is setup as post type - then you can setup Country as post type.
Im not sure about all that. My custom post type is projects ( or gyms). Each project was performed at an address - that is what puts it on the map. and I want people to filter the map by country. I don't see why I would have to create a second post type called country and attach that to my project post type. Thats a lot of work to just get the country field to not be a single text field.
Can I just use a repeatable field and populate it with country names. Then when editing my project post type I can select from a country. And on the front end I can use the reapeatable field as a search filter for the map?
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- You can create a custom field that should hold the country name but this may have issues when user do mistake writing country name.
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- We can create a select field and auto-populate it's values using standard country name database table and then from the given address string you should try to fetch the country name. Later based on country name/code try to find the country ID from country table.
This documentation was slightly confusing, took me forever to figure out how to add new custom search filters. The View Search box changes after you create your first view, the buttons to add new options appear further down the page in an odd area so the user interface is not intuitive but I finally got there. The instructions need to add more details about how the interface changes after your initial set up. Adding new things has a different look to it.
Thanks for your important feedback. I will share with concern person.
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