If I put a search box on the homepage that gives the user the chance to begin their search by choosing a country I would like them to be taken to various displays depending on the country they choose. So in the search form, which I want in a widget, I have put in a country dropdown and entered in the “Redirect to url” option in settings: /displaylist/?country=[216]
Note that I do not simply want to limit the entries displayed on one display but want to have a different display for each country.
I thought that I would be able to create the various displays and place the relevant shortcodes on one page called ‘displaylist’ as referenced from the homepage search form.
On the custom display in the advanced settings I have tried various combinations but none seem to quite get there. For example I want to return the display that only lists the entries from Canada so I have put where country is equal to [get parameter=canada] AND country is equal to canada – and yes that is effective for that one display. I have done the same fr the UK display.
I put two custom display shortcodes on the one page as follows:
[display-frm-data id=1]
[display-frm-data id=2]
(1 is Canada and 2 UK)
It seems to matter what order the codes are pasted in since if I search for Canada the result is as I had wished for but if I search for the UK then I get both Canada results AND UK results. So it seems I get the results for the one pasted first and or the one pasted first and second but never the one pasted second.
I hope that makes sense - any help or suggestions welcomed.
Many thanks
October 8, 2012 at 10:10 am
What type of field is 216? In your custom display [get parameter=canada] will be ignored for a couple reasons. First, you are using "country" in your URL, not canada. That shortcode recognizes "param" not parameter.
So, in addition to changing [get parameter=canada] to [get param=country], also add a second row that's a copy of the first, but write in Canada into the box.
October 8, 2012 at 11:43 am
[216] is the country drop down field I am using in the search form.
In one of the displays I had written [get parameter=country] and in another [get param=country] so I corrected the 'typo' so they both have 'param' and all seems fine now.
Many thanks for the reply.
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