Dynamically assign topic to different forums

[Nick]

This plugin is fantastic, but one important thing appears to be missing – the ability to dynamically assign a topic to a particular forum, based on which post is being created/viewed.

Specifically, I have buddypress groups that are each dedicated to a specific topic/theme/domain. Each group has one bbpress forum attached to it, and as various posts attached to it as well.

So, if I’m creating a post that is related to group ABC, I’d love if I could create a comments topic in Forum ABC as well. If the post is related to group XYZ, topic goes in XYZ.

Is this currently possible? Is there a specific spot in the code (perhaps even a hook?) that I could modify to allow for this? I really just need to be able to pass the forum ID, which I would generate/retrieve through other code, to the Topics for Posts plugin mechanism.

Thanks!

[Nick]

I now see that you can manually set the Forum from the Topics for Posts tab in the post editor sidebar. That will definitely suffice for the most-part, but I suspect I’ll want to add some sort of front-end post-submission mechanism. So, I’ll still want to be able to set the forum dynamically.

[Robin W]

but I suspect I’ll want to add some sort of front-end post-submission mechanism.

That should be possible, but what ‘front-end’ post submission method will you be using? It is probably a hook to the post submission of that as a ‘post extra’ that you will need, and some forum entry area on whatever form the front end is using to create posts.

[Nick]

Thanks for the response. I’m not sure what mechanism I’ll be using – probably Toolset Forms.

I’m not sure it’s terribly relevant though – I believe that all I need is to know how to hook into the BBpress Topics for Posts mechanism during the post creation so that it can create its relevant meta fields. Is there such a hook, or a place in the code that I could add one?

Thanks!

[Robin W]

so on post creation the plugin hooks to

add_action( 'save_post', array( &$bbp_post_topics, 'process_topic_option' ), 10, 3 );

save post is a wordpress action from the backend and uses $post and $_POST for the settings

process_topic_option is a function in index.php

[Nick]

Thanks, I’m sure I can figure it out from here!