[Resolved] Non-Types field distance filter

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[umbertoZ]

Hi, I've another issue with the Map location filter. I want to add a distance filter, but it doesn't get the YITH non-Types field _direction_event, even if it is alredy managed by Types. How can I do it?

thanks

[Christian Cox]

What is stored in the _direction_event custom field? Is it an address that is capable of being geocoded, or perhaps a pair of latitude and longitude coordinates?

[umbertoZ]

It is an address. There are also two fields that store long and lat.

[Christian Cox]

Please go to Toolset > Custom Fields and scroll down. Click "Post Field Control" and find the _direction_event field. Is the field type Address?

[umbertoZ]

_direction_event is not there, I can't see it on "Post Field Control" even if I selected it on "Hidden custom fields" and I can manage it in my view.

[Christian Cox]

That means it's a hidden field, not managed with Types. Though you can access its value in the Views GUI, you can only use "address" type fields managed with Types in a distance filter. So you could try setting up some custom code that copies values from the hidden field into a duplicate Types address field using the save_post hook, get_post_meta and update_post_meta, but there's no guarantee these values will be geocoded correctly. Normally Users would select a value from the autosuggest input field to geocode an Address, and I'm not sure how the values are captured by the other plugin.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/save_post
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_meta
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/update_post_meta

[umbertoZ]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!