Advanced Search - Distance - With GeoPoint child data

I have a table that a GeoPoint is referencing so that I can run searches through geoPoints and access the _metadata that associates the GeoPoint with the table data. This places a child relationship column on the table.

Now I also want to be able to search the table fields including the distance using that child relationship… I’m not sure how to do this without causing redundancy and adding a relation to the GeoPoint in a coordinates column.

Is there any way to do an advanced search “distance(lat,long,GeoPoint.action.latitude, GeoPoint.action.longitude) < mi(100)” (action is the name of the table) where GeoPoint.action is a child reference of the GeoPoint?

Hi Mike,

the “child” column in a data table is not an actual column, it is there for visualization (and as a reminder) that the object has an inverse relationship.

You can run search in radius against the geolocation storage and request the metadata to be pre-populated. Here’s the API doc:
https://backendless.com/documentation/geo/rest/geo_radius_based_search.htm

Regards,
Mark