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Q&A: One Question, many locatons

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I have always wanted to create a site that allowed one question to be answered by many but separated by location (i.e. city or zip). Can anyone help be brainstorm this idea into fruition? I am guessing I need to get a database of cities/states or zip/city/state, and incorporate the location into the user’s profile. That sounds hard in itself, but I have never really built something like this before. Then, I would need to separate the answers so they are only visible if you are viewing a specific location within the database. Any thoughts?

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:05:12
  • 3SixtyEvolve
    • New Recruit

    Hi Jason

    Greetings from the WPMU DEV Support Team and thank you for being a member of our community.

    I have brainstormed about this idea myself and couldn’t get to a quick answer. I read through some other threads and also checked online to see if I could get any good links for you for this, but without any luck.

    The only other thing that I can do is to flag the Developer to see if he would have any input and suggestions.

    I wish you all the best with this idea and hope that you will succeed to bring it to life.

    Talk soon!

    Gina

  • 3SixtyEvolve
    • New Recruit

    Hi Jason

    I checked with the Developer and this would be a feature request, so I will move it to the Feature Suggestions and Feedback Forum. I hope you get lots of votes on there and that this is something the Developer would consider for a future version of the Q&A Plugin.

    Have a good day!

    Gina

  • jasonewillis
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    Not sure why I am not hearing from anyone. I went on a daily chat since I was not getting an answer from this thread. I was told to contact the plugin author via the contact / email attention their name. Just received an email response that I should be asking this in the forum. Now, I am back here asking the same question. Anyway:

    I would like to use the Q&A plugin for a multisite configuration where questions are asked once and posted throughout all sites but the answers given are site specific to the site. To make it clearer, the sites will be about a city. So, lets say I ask a question: “How safe do you feel in your city?” All current and future multisite ‘sites’ will have this question; yet, the only responses specific to the city will be viewable on that blog/site. How would I go about creating this sort of feature utilizing your plugin?

    jw

  • Timothy
    • Chief Pigeon

    Hey Jason, sorry about the delay here.

    It is not something planned for release and would require some extensive customisation.

    I suppose it could be partially achieved through multisite having each site be that state or city, then custom code something to sync just the questions amongst sites.

    I’m thinking here something like Gravity Forms or Formidable Pro might be a good place to start. Then have the form post to multiple sites. I’m not sure they have something already though, so still might be custom.

    I think the greatest issue you might face is submitting to multiple tables as that would be a resource hog with tens, hundreds or potentially thousands.

    I suppose you would need to consider hiring a developer to think this through and about what would be the best and most efficient way to achieve what you wish.

    Take care.

  • jasonewillis
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    Hi Timothy,

    Are you saying use Gravity Forms or Formidable Pro instead of the Q&A plugin or in conjunction? I would like to understand better your thoughts better.

    I have also wondered if BuddyPress might help in the profile area, but I am not sure. I am really just looking to brainstorm a good solution. I understand it most likely will be custom, I am just not sure the best avenue.

    Respectively,

    jw

  • Timothy
    • Chief Pigeon

    I’m saying in conjunction it could be possible but would need some custom work there to achieve it totally.

    I was really thinking out aloud (odd thing to say seems it is written, lol) you would need to get them to write to multiple sites in my suggestion which could be a resource hog if not carefully thought out.

    I think BuddyPress groups could be a great idea. If you went totally custom (or adopted QA) then you could have just one Post Type for the questions and then each group being a location. Q’s show in em all but only answers for that Q and relavent would show in a specific group.

    Thanks.