Hi thank you for all that information.
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I have been testing the search feature and am noticing that the search doesn't find content from within clubs, even after performing the initial search, when the results come back as "zero results" and you choose "+ More search options", and then choose the clubs name from inside the club box on the bottom left....I put content inside the clubs main description and then also within a clubs page but search each time came back with zero results. I noticed that when searching, in the dropdown options, there are options to search pretty much through everything EXCEPT "clubs" option does not exist. I was wondering why this is and if it was done intentionally. Also the search came back with zero results even when choosing to search using "everything" as the dropdown option....
So my main question is, is this a bug? How can we fix this? How can we make it so that content from within clubs doesn't get "lost" for loss of a better word...
Another thing I noticed, is when you are anywhere inside a club, the main top search bar has an option to search "This club", I noticed club page content isn't recognized and neither are descriptions, such as in "Overview" "About this club", inside a club blog "About this blog" content, etc...all places people would likely be searching for terms that reside there to find the clubs of a particular interest... just my $.02, would be nice if when searching "everywhere", it really did mean everywhere!!
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In regards to the filtering and sorting by location, we briefly touched on earlier...once I added the Google Maps Integration, on the main clubs homepage, (for all clubs, not a specific clubs homepage, the main club homepage you land on when clicking the "club" link in the header menu) it shows an option to "Browse clubs by location"...
Is there a specific reason searching and sorting by location has been completely left out? Is there any potential for you guys to add this or fix this in the future?
I am literally between a rock and a hard place here as these are really some main features my community relies on and I am trying so hard to find a way I can stay with you guys and use this software vs. going with another because in the long term I know the value of, and know I need the granular access control features you guys have built in, but the other software I am looking at has all the other features you guys don't have but doesn't have the access control and it's driving me crazy lol. I don't have the time or money to build from scratch and as much as I don't want to use wordpress, I am considering it, solely because I just can't seem to find the one software that has everything I need that I am thinking maybe I should just take my chances there. I honestly don't know what to do.
Also I am thinking, what if I put a custom field on members profiles, make it required, and let users choose an option from a set of choices, then when a user does a sitewide search, they should be able to search either "everywhere" or "members" and find those who have that specific word chosen or typed into their custom field in their profile? No? So say for example, to conduct a workaround search for users by location, I could put a custom field text input type and ask for people to put their zip code in, then in the search I can instruct people to either conduct a search on "members" or "everything", with the zip code they are looking for members in, and then those members should come up, right?
I have to test this out. It's also hard to do all this testing with no dummy content. Anyways, just talking/thinking this out...
Any ideas would be helpful and are welcome.
Anyways, thanks for hearing me blab...there was more I was going to add, but this being so public I feel it is not the place to discuss financials, and certain other things, thanks...