Vernon Fowler

Thanks. The reinstating access solution worked. ??

When it comes to private groups, our structure – and the only one that makes sense to me – is that any children are also private.

With hidden groups, we only have 1 or 2 groups and they are at the top level and standalone without children.

I like the 2 options you present. Do (a) and (b) work simultaneously or have I misunderstood? If only 1 of (a) and (b) can operate, then (a) makes more sense to me. Otherwise, both (a) and (b) seem valid and ideal.

Thanks again for your time on this.

Cheers,
Vernon

Thanks for all your work Christian.
The check for (a) public groups – before propagating is perfectly reasonable but I need to ask is that both the originating group and the hierarchically related groups or just the former or latter?
The check for (b) whether the user is a member of the group is interesting. By “user” do you mean the activity creating member? And by “is a member of the group” do you mean of the hierarchically related groups regardless of whether those groups are private or hidden?

Most of our groups are public so I’m happy that this will work for the vast majority. We do have one hidden group and a small hierarchy of staff groups that are all set as private so I’m wondering what will happen in the general staff group and the child staff groups…

Cheers,
Vernon

Hi Christian. Perhaps an example will clarify.

Our BuddyPress installation forms the blended learning platform for several campuses of a language school. At the highest level of our hierarchy we have campus groups such as Melbourne and Sydney. Also at this level we have the 3 major streams: Academic, Business & General English. At the middle level of our hierarchy we have program specific groups such as the IELTS program and the University Bridging program (these belong to the academic stream). Then at the 3rd level we have class and cohort specific groups which are named according to the program of study, the chronological period and given an alphabetical naming for each class of 18students. Examples of these 3rd level group names would be “2A 139”, “18B 141” and “3C 142”.

Students and staff may belong to any number of groups relevant to their work / study. Whilst students may have joined their class / cohort group they need to see activity from the parent and grandparent groups too. The program manager (who is only a member of the middle level groups) needs to broadcast messages down the hierarchy to all class / cohort groups. At the stream and campus level (top level groups) there is a need for the senior staff, program coordinators, and management to have both overview of all the child and grandchild groups and occasionally broadcast a message to all groups below without needing to belong to any of the groups down the hierarchy.

In brief, activity messages flowing up and down a hierarchy is extremely useful so that members do not need to belong to groups that are not central to their roles but still receive information from related groups. Without activity propagating both up and down the hierarchy, broadcasting to child groups, monitoring and oversight of groups within a hierarchy is impossible. Right now we have 1/2 the functionality with unidirectional propagation – this is great but we’d love to see that potential explode with bidirectional. Hope that helps illustrate our scenario and need of this cool functionality.

Cheers,
Vernon

Thanks Christian. Now I’m really looking forward to the next version. Also, glad to hear it is not too difficult to implement. ??

By the way, your plugin was mentioned as one of my favourite 3 BuddyPress plugins in a lightning talk I gave at a WordPress Melbourne Meetup late last year.

Cheers,
Vernon

Awesome new feature – site wide direction switch. I love it. Thank you.

Thanks r-a-y. That should do the trick ??

Hi David,

Bypassing current membership level provides the most flexibility. If a member has the right user role, they should be able to reserve a place in any group.

Alternatively, could that option be added to the plugin settings for other communities that require both group membership and a high-enough role requirement?

Cheers,
Vernon

Thanks Justin. That definitely answers my question. Rock on!

For now, I’m using Adminimize to achieve this hide of dashboard panel (along with other hides). Seems I can’t live without that plugin anyway.

Now that’s awesome! Thank you – merci!

Awesome! Thanks for such prompt support.

I believe it was with editing an existing group that I tested and received the error. Nonetheless, I’ll test both cases again tomorrow.

My child theme of bp-default is breaking the presentation and the image attachment selection.

This combined with the news that bp-default is dying prompts me to finally start to build a new child theme based on something other than bp-default.

Anyone else out there still running bp-default as a parent theme?

Hi Mathieu,

I’ve managed some success.
Instead of:

get_header( ‘buddypress’ );

I tried with just wp_head()

Then I tried without wp_head() and just a few html tags (doctype, html, head, title, link to stylesheets) and it appears wp_head() is the culprit! Without wp_head() the appearance looks like this screenshot.

I need to use wp_head and probably via get_header(‘buddypress’) to get the bookmarklet script to work with the URL, highlight, images available in the form. So I probably have a plugin conflict. Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Vernon