Week 10 - The Date Filter and the Splash Screen

Team Hermes finally made the breakthrough that resulted in the resolving of a persistent and difficult error that had been a thorn in our side for a very long time. The date filter that the team wanted to implement was for a long time unsuccessful as any attempt to make the filter work would result in search results being completely different from what was searched or the filter not running at all.

However, a solution was finally found by researching and looking at past examples. By re-working old code that was essentially designed to do what we needed to do, the search function finally became fully operational with both location and date being used as filters to narrow down events. While there still are a number of bugs in the system (for example, Trove grabbing international events), this was still a huge step forward.

Furthermore, NearMe has had a visual update added on: the Splash Screen. Team Hermes felt that simply presenting the user with the main screen would be quite disorienting. Thus, they will be presented with this:

This screen will hopefully provide them with some clarity about NearMe and not confuse them immediately.