Allow new Map Locator to be filtered by People Category
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Matt Miller
The new Map Locator feature looks great. It would be even more useful for us if we could filter it by People Category.
Other things like Volunteers or Custom View would also be helpful to filter on (essentially allowing the Map Locator to use the filtering options from the View menu on the people page).
Stewart Polley
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This has been completed and will be included in the next update to the system which should be some time today :)
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John Roscoe
Stewart Polley: Thanks - this new filter will be a great help. I will submit a separate request for filter by Groups as you requested.
Stewart Polley
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Thanks to how the devs built this, we'll be able to get this in quite easily.
The downside is that it's currently blocked by some changes we'll be pushing to the People BETA, so this won't be added for about a week or so.
Bennett
It looks like the map is based on mailing address rather than home address. Is that right? I think home address would be more helpful - right now I have people who use post office boxes showing up in a random town about 100 miles away.
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John Roscoe
Bennett: I have tested this and its definitely based on home address, not mailing address, however for some reason sometimes the home address is not recognised. I have had one person come up on the map but not the other one in the same house. By copying the address over it fixed the problem. There was no apparent reason but there may have been a space character or something preventing the home address being recognised.
Stewart Polley
Bennett: It is definitely using home address, not mailing address. If you are having issues, please contact support.
Bennett
John Roscoe: Thanks - yes, I actually found several different issues and was able to fix most of them. RIght now I just have one person showing up in a different state completely even thought their address looks correct. I'll try re-inputting their address and see if it fixes that one. I appreciate the feedback.
Bennett
Stewart Polley: I've got most of them fixed, if I can't correct the last one on my own, I'll contact support. Thanks for your feedback!
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John Roscoe
PLUS - please include a filter by groups. We have contact groups for pastoral visiting and this will be a great help. I have used the Elvanto plug-in group locator script from jagtech.biz which has filters for Groups and Categories but not Demographics or Departments, so it would be great to have all options in one place.
Stewart Polley
John Roscoe: Hi John,
If you want to see extra options, please add in feature requests to be tracked individually
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John Roscoe
Yes please - we have a separate category for all our contractors and Suppliers, another for an ethnic congregation, and one for staff, so we need to filter out these locations.
And thanks for this enhancement - after the first time launching it, it loads pretty quickly and will be a great use, for example who can help with transport in an area. All we need now is to get everyone to load their photos.
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Joey Green
John Roscoe: Have you looked into the filters already available?
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John Roscoe
Joey Green: Yes - on my view it gives filter by Demographics and Departments only. These are not very useful for us. However we really need to filter by People Category first, and a filter by Groups would also be very useful.