MODIFICATION: Display your extra fields on the showlistings.tpl page

[bowers01]

Is there any way to make this work on designer?
Cheers

[forumosa]

What about using the extra fields in the showlistings.tpl and sorting with them?

For example, many of the people who use my classifieds post national ads, so the CITY field will show where their office is, but they may post 3 Job Listings in 3 different cities. I can easily create a JOBCITY field, but I will want the category listings to not only show JOBCITY but allow visitors to sort by JOBCITY

[forumosa]

It just occurred to me that the business address fields were added to 68c for the reasons I've described above - to distinguish sellers' cities from their ads locations

Oops

[forumosa]

Originally Posted by forumosa

What about using the extra fields in the showlistings.tpl and sorting with them?

For example, many of the people who use my classifieds post national ads, so the CITY field will show where their office is, but they may post 3 Job Listings in 3 different cities. I can easily create a JOBCITY field, but I will want the category listings to not only show JOBCITY but allow visitors to sort by JOBCITY

It still might be helpful to know how to do this for other fields (not JOBCITY) - any suggestions would be welcome

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by forumosa

It still might be helpful to know how to do this for other fields (not JOBCITY) - any suggestions would be welcome

Users can search by the extra fields you create, they just have to chose a cetegory to search in first and the extra fields for that category to display.

The reason for this is because the extra fields are not stored in the same database table as the ad. The reason for that is so that each ad category can have its own unique extra fields.