Regions#
Geographic division — countries, regions, districts, towns. Used by the classifieds, the company catalogue, delivery and, in the blog, articles, news and events.
Find them under Systém → Regiony.
Fields#
| Field | Note |
|---|---|
| Name | per language |
| Parent region | forms the tree |
| Is a country | marks the state level |
| Main | the default region |
| Active | a disabled region is not offered on the website, see Disabling a region |
Postcode, coordinates, and image are not entered anywhere
The region's database record has room for them, but the Systém → Regiony form has no such field — there is no way to set them through it.
The tree#
Regions form a tree: country → region → district → municipality. They are moved by dragging.
A deeper tree is not necessarily better
A user choosing through four levels gives up. On a smaller site, countries and regions are enough.
Searching inherits downwards#
Pick a region and the visitor also finds everything in its districts and municipalities. The same holds for saved searches.
Something classified only at region level is not found by someone searching a town
Inheritance works top-down, not the other way. So classify listings as low as possible.
\"Within X km of me\" search does not use the region's coordinates
Distance is computed from the address entered directly on the listing/company (geocoded via Google Maps), not from the coordinates of the region it belongs to.
Moving a region#
Moving to the root of the tree is the riskiest operation
The whole structure is recalculated. On a large tree it takes a while; do not interrupt it, and go through the tree afterwards.
Disabling a region#
Switch it off with the Aktivní (active) toggle. A disabled region:
- disappears from the region choices on the website — together with every region below it (switching off a county also hides its districts and towns),
- its URL in adverts, the company catalogue and the blog ends in a 404 error — the same goes for a region under a disabled parent.
Switch it back on and the region with its subtree returns to the website.
Deleting#
The whole subtree goes with it
Delete a region and all its municipalities disappear — and with them the classification of everything in them. Disable an unused region instead.
Region versus payment region#
They are not the same thing.
| Region | Payment region | |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | geographic classification of content | currency, payment options, document language and layout |
| Forms a tree | yes | no |
You need both
The region says where a company is based. The payment region says what it can pay you with.