BuddyDocs bug with Groups

  • Yeah, me again. This one’s more serious, I think. BuddyDocs is confusing me; the way it connects with Groups is hard to fathom, but without Docs enabled for Groups, it seems impossible to share Docs.

    Using up-to-date WP and BP.

    In the back end, I can go to “associated items”, and check boxes to associate an existing Document with groups. My site has two groups. I’ve enabled Docs for both groups in setup. I discovered that if I check both boxes, I generate errors in the Doc: eg,

    Warning: Illegal offset type in wp-includes/cache.php on line 674

    appears when I go to look at the Doc, and then a succession of other errors ennumerated where the Doc’s text should be if I open it.

    I ran a few tests, and clearly it’s only checking both boxes on a Doc that causes these problems. But I can check two boxes. So the back end is signaling to me that a Doc can have multiple group associations (whether via editing an existing Doc or clicking “Add New”); meanwhile, the front end only allows a Doc to be associated with one group.

    Which is correct? Is this a functionality problem, or a problem with the back end fooling me into thinking I have functionality that doesn’t exist?

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  • Plugin Author David Cavins

    (@dcavins)

    Hi VeeLow-

    Without groups enabled, you’re limited to setting a doc to public, logged-in or creator only for the various access settings.

    Try associating the doc with a group from the front-end edit screen. (The back-end edit screen is not nearly as developed as the front-end screen)

    -David

    Thread Starter VeeLow

    (@veelow)

    Yep, that works fine! Everything I said above involves situations with groups enabled.

    Testing again, I just added one group association to a Doc from the front end, then went backstage. The Doc page on the back end allowed me to check two more boxes (giving this Doc 3 different group associations)–but doing so broke the Doc on the front end, generating the error types I mentioned above.

    So it seems like there’s a bug…

    Just to confirm: the functionality of having a Doc belong to multiple groups does not exist?

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