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bmacer
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Jan 4, 2006, 9:17 PM

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I was just wondering, are we allowed to make changes to this program ourselfs?

The reason I ask, is it would be nice to creat a "locations" catagory that works above your current job catagory. To explain:

You would be able to creat "locations" or site names for your different office or facility locations, this would help with searching and even greater functionality down the road. By creating the Locations, you would then have multiple drop downs, one for the location and then one for the type of job.

Hypothetically speaking you could create a job for a location in Boston, Mass. and then a category of IT manager under neat that. Though your searching would display the same, you would have new options for displaying these results. You could display by State, or by city/location, and then sill.. by category.

Does this make any sence? Would you guy's be inclined to include this in an upcomming release of Job Manager, if you did or allowed us to code it, we'd greatly buy a license.

This is a feature we really need.

Thanks
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ross
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Jan 5, 2006, 1:47 PM

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Hi Brent.

Thanks for posting!

I am not quite sure I understand what you wanted to set up though. It almost sounds like you wanted to have drop down menus automatically populate with data from your job postings. Sort of like a jump box.

Am I on the right track? Perhaps you could give me some more details so I can see what options are available right now.

I look forward to hearing from you Smile.
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bmacer
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Jan 5, 2006, 6:04 PM

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Re: [ross] Idea for Job Manager [In reply to] Can't Post
Hey Ross, first off it's Blair not Brent ;)

Basically what I'm talking about is simple. In the current version of Article Manager, not 2.0, you have areas where you can create custom fields. What we need is to combine this with in Job Manager. Currently Job manager allows you to create "job types" as catagories, and then displays your catagories as Article Manager would. That said, would would be nice is to allows a user to create "locations" as another type of catagory. This would allow users to have custom displays both by "job type" catagory and by "location" catagory. It would also allow easier searching for a person looking for a job in a particular area, instead of just looking for a job type then having to sort through a whole list of jobs looking for one in Boston, Mass. when they could see a listing of Locations and just choose "boston, Mass." from a list, much the same way one would choose "IT manager" from the job type category.

Is this better?


Cliff
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Jan 6, 2006, 2:31 PM

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Hi Blair,

Thanks for the additional details.

You could already setup something like this if you used Listings Manager.

You actually can have up to 75 different fields with each one being search able on the search engine page. So all you would need to do is setup one field for the category, and then another field for the locations. Then, you can just create a search page that makes a query to both fields and sends you back a list of relevant results.

I think that in the end Listings Manager is going to be a little more flexible for a setup like you have in mind.

I hope that helps explain but let me know if you need any more details Smile
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