BuddyPress

Hi,

When a topic is posted from a group this message is displayed in a red bar: “This group does not have a forum setup yet.”

When a topic is posted and a group is slected from the Forums page this message is also displayed in a red bar: “Please pick the group forum where you would like to post this topic.”

Everything else works fine.

I really don’t understand whats wrong, please help me fix this for my members.

Thanks,

== When a topic is posted from a group this message is displayed in a red bar: “This group does not have a forum setup yet.” ==
Go to that specific Group’s Admin > Settings and click “Enable discussion forum”

== When a topic is posted and a group is slected from the Forums page this message is also displayed in a red bar: “Please pick the group forum where you would like to post this topic.” ==
Not quite sure what you mean. Did you post the topic from the specific Group’s > Forum page > New Topic or did you post from Forum Directory page > New Topic page where you should select the group from dropdown provided?

Hi mercime,

I tried it with the discussion forum enabled and created different groups trying to post from each one from the groups forum page and the forums main page. Also tried the directory pages with the group name category selected in the dropdown each time.

It’s the same symptoms as on here: http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/what-the-heck-is-wrong-with-my-forums/

I also tried uninstalling and re-installing the buddypress plugin and disabling all other plugins in case of conflict but no luck.

Here is a link to my site: http://democracycommunity.com

Have you heard of this problem before?

Thanks

Same problem here. Groups installed. Forum for groups installed and activated when i create a new group. But when I try to make a new theme is answering that the forum is not configured.

Same problem here. I must say I am getting very skeptical. I can’t have this kind of nonsense with users. Can someone lend a hand here? Thanks!

I just found a work around. I created the forum topic from within the group, which sidesteps the “which group” question and seems to have worked.

I have exactly the same problem. When I try to post in a group forum I get:

“This group does not have a forum setup yet.”

If I try to do it from the global forums page section, I get this:

“Please pick the group forum where you would like to post this topic.” (I did! ¬¬)

No need to say that of course I had forum enabled option on the group… I’ve been working on this problem for several hours and I’m about getting crazy.

When I installed forums option on Buddypress I did the following:

1. Installed forums for all the website (downloaded bbPress, installed and activated)
2. Installed forums for groups (instead of “using an existing installation option”)

I think the problem is maybe on not using the “existing installation option”).

I’m about becoming crazy (and blind), but the only solution I see is locating the database entry on phpMyadmin and fixing it, but I couldn’t find where this options are in there.

Some help pleeeeease? Thanks…

Please clarify which forum setup you have based on the four available setups here http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

Same problem.
WP 3.2.1 and BP 1.5.1
reverted back to BP default theme
Deactivated all plugins
Created new groups
and still not able to add a forum topic

Any suggestions?

http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/4/#enable-group-forum

This issue is driving us bonkers – has anyone come up with a solution please?

It all started when we moved our site (www.eradar.eu) to its own server (accessed thru cPanel). We have lost all forums and when another group is created it creates multiple groups rather than just 1 (even though the unique ID numbers are the same) – everything was working fine with our previous shared server.

I’m beginning to think it is a server side issue……

Some observations

1. Not a plugin issue – all have been tried and tested
2. Not a theme issue – was all working fine under the theme (Custom Community)
3. We are using all latest editions of WordPress, BuddyPress and BBPress…
4. We’ve followed discussion threads and deleted unique forum ids in MyPhp.

Absolutely no idea what to do next……

Please help

Try toggling forums in a given group. Uncheck “enable forum” and save, then recheck. If that works, it narrows down the issue.

Also, is it happening with new groups as well as existing ones?

The error happens even if it is a new group or existing and after toggling the enable forum. I’ve had so many problems installing BP I’m starting to wonder if it will work.

@tjherman are you on Windows or Linux server? WP 3.2.1 or WP 3.3? BP 1.5.1 or 1.5.2? Have you checked your database if 7 tables were generated for the forums and whether bb-config.php was generated at the root of your WP installation?

@mercime, Windows server, WP 3.2.1. BP 1.5.2, the only table that mentions forums is one called “wp_bb_forums” and there is a bb-config.php in the root WP installation. Hope that helps!