BP Profile Search › User not found
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For testing I registered a new user A on my bp site with the location “Starnberg, Germany”. Then I logged in as another user B and made a distance search 5km from Starnberg, Germany. But the user A doesnt show up. Even with 10 or 100km distance no success. How can I find out whats the problem? For my webpage its important that a user find any other user living in the same town.
Follow up on this: When I want to make changes to some of users A profile fields on the frontend I get a bp error message saying, “pick a location from the map list”. Then I put in the same Starnberg, Germany and saving works. And now the search works too.
So it seems that my registration plugin maps the buddypress location field in the wrong even it also uses Google maps and with the same location name.
Can you tell me what I have to check when mapping the bp location field correctly. Any settings or parameters?
Hi Alex,
Location fields are custom profile fields, because they need to store the location coordinates along with the address, and a field mapping plugin can likely only map standard profile field types.
You could check with the mapping plugin author to see if there’s a way to map custom profile field types.
