We don't want location radius to be a required filter

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Problem:

can the location search itself be optional? Right now it requires a location in order to search at all.

Solution:

There isn't such a built-in feature to make location radius optional, but you can use some CSS codes to hide the location radius fields

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This topic contains 4 replies, has 3 voices.

Last updated by cristianM-3 6 years, 4 months ago.

Assisted by: Luo Yang.

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August 8, 2018 at 8:22 pm #1077625

christopherM-4

Tell us what you are trying to do?
We are trying to make a page that searches through a custom type called an Event. We'd like to be able to search the events by date, category and location. Right now, our filter is requiring us to put a location radius in. Is there a way to make that optional?

Is there any documentation that you are following?
We've looked at the Views documentation.

Is there a similar example that we can see?

What is the link to your site?
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August 9, 2018 at 4:58 am #1078289

Luo Yang

Hello,

There isn't such a built-in feature to make location radius optional, but you can use some CSS codes to hide the location radius fields, I can see you have already done in the website:
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August 9, 2018 at 1:55 pm #1078482

christopherM-4

I think what I meant to ask was, can the location search itself be optional? Right now it requires a location in order to search at all. We don't mind the radius field, but we'd like to be able to do a global search without putting in any data in the location field.

August 9, 2018 at 6:58 pm #1078638

christopherM-4

We figured it out

August 14, 2018 at 10:43 am #1082882

cristianM-3

Hello

Can you please share how you did the location field optional?

Thank you