Anyone know of an elegant solution to disable the Home tab on a group?

I have certain groups that are public that I want to be “Forum Only” groups. Right now, people land on he “Home” tab and mistakenly post forum topics in the activity stream… I would like to:

1) Completely hide the activity stream (since any updates will be forum related and displayed there)

-or-

1) Disable posting to the activity stream
and 2) make the forum the default landing zone.

Thanks!

Seems like this should be an option by default (turn on/off different components for each group) and maybe it is… am I missing it somewhere?

[@driftless1 Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

I see a partial solution here:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/custom-groups-or-activating-different-plugins-in-different-groups/ (thanks boone)

The only other things I need to complete the process is a way for the end-user to easily set groupmeta. Can’t have em mucking about in the db now can we…

Thanks

[@driftless1 Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

Hmmm. Well, I can kill the home tab, but since thats the default landing for a group, it means I get kicked to the site homepage whenever I try to open a group…

Ok… so now to find how to change the default landing page of a group.

[@driftless1 Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

Woohoo! Persistence pays… Once again, thanks to boone and r-a-y

Found the solution here: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/changing-group-tab-display-defaults/#post-55449

Wraped it all in a

`if ( groups_get_groupmeta( $bp->groups->current_group->id, ‘forum_only’ ) ) {`

wrapper – and we’re golden.

Now back to the easily-changeable groupmetadata thing…