Clear Upon Refresh

Hello @jguenther,

clicking a link in the profile just takes them to their prior search

That shouldn’t happen, a new search automatically overrides the previous one.

Could you please provide more details, and possibly a link to the page showing the problem?

Hi Andrea,

You can see what’s happening here:

https://player.vimeo.com/external/247877633.hd.mp4?s=37b9d2a0673d477fe8cdfabc2c30f938a5c46a88&profile_id=175

Notice, I initially searched “Ed,” then visited a profile and clicked a link which should perform another search. Instead, I’m taken back to the results for “Ed.”

Also, I did try with a default theme as well as all plugins deactivated except this one and had the same results.

If you need login credentials to test in our dev environment, let me know how I can send those privately.

Thanks!

I should add that, after looking again, it does perform a search for the term clicked on in the link AND the original term. So after clicking on the link results retained were all users with that term and “Ed” in the name. Ideally, it would be nice if clicking the link cleared the previous search instead of adding to it.

Thanks!

I’m also facing the same issue. The data on search fields persists on refresh until someone clicks the clear button. If I search for a member and I navigate to a different page, the search widget retains the search parameters. Kindly advise on how to make the form clear the parameters on page refresh or on navigating to a different page.

As long as there is no option for specifically saving a search, I think it is an advantage that the search form is not cleared, when leaving or refreshing the page, because users often perform the same search over and over again.
That said, a search save option, with the possibility of naming a search would be nice.

I have noticed that when using the short code i.g. on the front page, the clear button and the hide/show form button are not present, so it is not possible to clear the form otherwise than deleting all content in the search form manually.

regards

I agree there should be an option. In any case, at the very least the search should completely reset when a user clinks a link in the profile. I think it’s safe to say if they are clicking a profile search, they are not intending to narrow a search further, but rather perform an entirely new search (i.e. not searching for their previous parameters AND the term from the link).

Thank you all for your comments, you made some very good points.

I’m going to make these changes in the next BP Profile Search version:

1. A search activated with a profile link clears the previous search;

2. You can choose to always clear the search on page refresh adding this code in bp-custom.php:

add_filter ('bps_clear_search', '__return_true');

3. A new ‘Clear’ button in a search form clears the form (and the search).

By the way, the first two changes are in SVN already, so if you reinstall the plugin you’ll get them.

Please let me know if these changes work for you!