Search Filter for Date Fields not working

  • sohum

    (@sohum)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    Thank you for a very clever plugin. For the most part I’m happy with it, considering it’s free.

    However, if you > create an advanced form field for a date > choose from Date Input Types date picker/date field/date dropdown > click on the directory tab and select “Use this field as a search filter”

    The result is your search form on the listings page does have a search filter for this field, but it’s not of the Date Input Type you selected. It’s just a single text field, which for a date is not useful because there’s so many different ways anyone searching by date could type the date (eg. 12 Jan 14, 12/01/14, 01/12/14, January 12, 2014, etc).

    Is there a way to activate the Input Type in the search area that I’ve just not realised? Please tell me I’m being dumb 🙂

    Thanks for your help!
    Warm regards,
    Abby

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-forms-addons/

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  • Thread Starter sohum

    (@sohum)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Bump…

    Am fairly desperate for feedback on this, any guidance or directions on how I can fix this myself would be greatly appreciate! (I have basic to middling experience of editing plugins backend.)

    You can see the page in question here: http://www.newcomers.se/raveras/listings/

    Thank you!

    WordPress version: 4.0
    Gravity Forms Directory version: 3.6.2

    I did this: added date fields to my gravity form as both dropdown and date picker, and made them search filters

    I expected the plugin to do this: I expected the search fields for these date fields to mimic the type used in the form (as with the other fields) so to allow anyone searching to use a date picker or dropdown for date

    Instead it did this: instead the date fields for this form render as a text field, so that a person searching could type multiple date formats and find no results

    Here’s a link to see what I mean: http://www.newcomers.se/raveras/listings/

    Thread Starter sohum

    (@sohum)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    … mmm, Zack any possible feedback on this and this related thread (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advanced-search-with-multiselect-field?replies=2)?

    If possible, would be willing to sponsor a little time fixing this so that it behaves as one would expect, but couldn’t afford $100.

    If that possible, please email me Zack at rowenravera at gmail? I’m really keen to wrap up this project and can’t do it without this bug fix 🙂

    Thank you for your time and plugin.

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