Using location as a search point is ok for local events where people know the venue. If people from a distance do a search based on the location, it is possible they will have no idea where something is from the hint in the search that has the name of the location (a hotel name, a building name, a park name, a church name, etc. without the physical location).

I have a need to provide a search for events to be listed by the state they are located in. Or... to provide a page that has a dropdown with a list of states.

Do you have suggestions on how I could approach this?

Thanks.

David P.

Did you get a response to this? What I did was make the states my categories. They have a feature to list events by category which works great. But, I'm now challenged w/how the events are sorted. So, I have a ticket open with RSJoomla.

I didn't get a response to this.

If this topic is important to you, why don't you go to:

feedback.rsjoomla.com/pages/26179-joomla...ent-manager-rsevents

and vote on it.

As I see it right now, RSEvents is only suited for inviting people to local, well known locations. If you put up the name of a hotel as the location of the event, when people search for events at that location they may think it is in their city when it is not.

Also, as you have a few hundred people create events, this one drop down will get crazy.

The locations function of RSEvents has to develop a bit. I think each person who creates events (could be any member of the system) should have their username inserted in the row that defines the venue. Then when they are creating an event, THEIR locations show up or they can create one for THEIR location.

Then in the search area, we should be able to look based on date (calendar) type (category) phrase (search) and LOCATION (state / city). This last function of searching by locality is not available and it is really needed.

If the developers at RSJoomla are busy with other projects, I may be interested in pooling in with others to find an independent developer to create this capability. Who else is interested?

David P