View Link redirecting to User Profile instead of Group

Are we talking about the ‘View’ link in digest emails?

I’ve tested locally and it appears to be working as expected. The links have the following format:

https://example.com/wp-login.php?action=bpnoaccess&auth=1&redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Factivity%2Fp%2F245268%2F

If you’re logged in, you’re then redirected to https://example.com/members/admin/activity/245268/ (or whatever the URL of the actual activity item is). If you’re not logged in, you’re led to wp-login.php, and after login you are redirected to the correct activity URL.

> not redirecting to an activity inside a group anymore but to profile activity pages.

If I understand you correctly, the behavior I’ve described above matches what you are seeing, but you believe that it’s the incorrect behavior. Is that correct?

As far as I know, the feature has always worked this way. The ‘View’ link goes to the activity permalink, which in the case of many kinds of activity is a URL of the format /members/member_name/12345.

If you think you’re seeing a change in behavior, please share more details, including information about the activity item (type, component, etc).

Dear Boone,

ah ok, I see. In the threat referenced above you stated:

the View link goes either to the activity permalink, or to the ‘primary_link’ of the activity item (like the forum permalink). In either case, these ought to point to locations inside of a group, not a user profile

I may have misunderstood that and in reviewing the threat, I thought the view link should point to the activity within the group, not to the user profile activity wall. If that’s not the case, then yeah, it works as it should.

For my use case however it would make a lot more sense to link to the activity within the group rather than to someone’s profile. If that’s not possible, could I modify the link to the simply point to the group instead of the activity? My groups are not super active so people just post from time to time, hence that may be a workaround?

Kind regards, Philip

Dear @boonebgorges,

I hope I find you well. Beyond the question outlined above, I currently have a bigger issue: I cannot send any mails anymore through BP GES.

I have no idea whatsoever why. It worked fine until two weeks ago and I didn’t change anything I can think of since then and I can’t reproduce the issue on my dev env. So this is what I did to test so far:

I deactivated all plugins apart from BP GES and Buddypress
I switched to a standard theme
I deleted and reinstalled BP GES

No dice. I set define( 'BPGES_DEBUG', true ); but it doesn’t give me any error messages or any messages at all.

None of the digests (weekly / daily) nor the admin notice works. I don’t understand what’s happening, any idea what else I could do to identify the issue?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Kind regards, Philip

@boonebgorges

Good news, I found the issue myself: I had an attack on my website 2 weeks ago and set Cloudflare to Under Attack Mode – then I forgot about it and that was blocking BP GES from processing any emails for whatever reason. Anyhow, now it’s working fine again!

So, now back to my initial question: Can I change the “view” link to the group, instead of the personal profile activity wall?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Kind regards, Philip

> So, now back to my initial question: Can I change the “view” link to the group, instead of the personal profile activity wall?

Looking back at how BuddyPress activity routing works, I don’t believe there’s any way to view a single activity item within a group. You can only see the activity item in the group’s activity stream. So there may be no way to accomplish what you’re looking for.

Dear @boonebgorges,

I understand that it’s not possible to link to the entry within the group. But I was wondering, whether it would be possible to simply link to the group itself? So rather then redirecting to the activity, just redirecting to the group, much like what the link in the digest heading does?

Kind regards, Philip