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October 27, 2011 12:00am

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  • #1 / Oct 27, 2011 12:00am

    Carlo Laitano

    99 posts

    I’m using the simple search form to let users search a directory. This directory is organized by categories and the search works perfectly just like that. Since the site is expanding we now have a directory that has businesses from different cities. In order to make things simple and not mess up the category logic we already had working we decided to use a dropdown custom field in each entry to select it’s city.

    The issue we now have is that I can’t find a way to let users limit their results to a certain city. Everything else is working. Users can select a city and normal browsing is limited to that city. We only need to get the search results working. I’ve been looking through the documentation and forums but I can’t find anything. Does anyone have any suggestions?

  • #2 / Oct 27, 2011 4:06pm

    Kevin Smith

    4784 posts

    Hi Carlo,

    The native simple and advanced search tools don’t allow the kind of flexibility you’re looking for, but I think you might find a solution in Solspace’s Super Search. It allows you to filter searches by the contents of custom fields.

    Does that help?

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