Create a drop-down of Google Map options & program for festival site?
This is a two-part query for the same site using LV and LE:
I'm using Google Maps for ExpressionEngine for a festival site. The festival has various venues within the site i.e.
Jazz Var
Folk Tent
Concert Venue
Plaza Stage
etc...
Each act or attraction has its own entry with description, times etc and ideally a google map which the user can follow with their phone to find the correct location on the day...
I was originally going to give each program entry the GMaps field type and add a marker for each one but I think this will not only make things too hard for content editors but also end up with a lot of locations to render on a combined map.
To make this simpler for both content editors and visitors I'm thinking of creating 10-12 standard maps (or locations as the above example) which can then be applied by means of a select or multi-select custom field in the program entries - displaying the map on each program listing page and perhaps grouped on a main festival map.
Is there a sensible way I can use LV to do this?
Off on a slight tangent but I'm also looking at Low Events as a means of arranging these entries as a calendar. The festival is spread over 3 days with many acts running concurrently. My idea is to let people shortlist the things they want to see and pull up the list in chronological order. Different topic I know but is that workable with LE?
Previously the festival set just included a downloadable PDF map (not the attached one) and a straightforward program list so I'm looking to juice things up a bit here.
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Low 6 Mar 2014 09:10
With LV, you could create a group Maps or Locations, and then add the 10-12 locations to it as separate variables (non-hidden, non-early-parsed). Then, you can add a LV channel field to a channel, so you can select one of those variables to go with the Act entry. Think of it as a Relationship field, but relating to a LV group, rather than a channel. In what way that interacts with Maps, I cannot really say. That's up to your implementation.
Low Events will let you list your Acts, but shortlisting them is not part of the add-on. You might want to look at other add-ons for that, like the aptly named Shortlist. But things like Favorites or LikEE might also work.
Damien 6 Mar 2014 09:29
Thanks Low. I'll give that a whirl and see how it goes. I had Shortlist in mind for this - thanks for the suggestions.