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Daniel-
Thanks for filing your ticket. I’m interested to hear the results of your tests.
In reply to: working inside a class with buddyPressGrosbouff-
You posted the same basic request in this thread 2 days ago and I answered it, giving you the same advice that Andy did above.
Please do not double post. Use the same thread.
I’m going to close this thread as your original post should do.
In reply to: BuddyPress Privacy Component: An UpdateOne step at a time. My Privacy Component is a user-centric solution. It is not currently designed to offer Site Admins a way to selectively exclude certain classes of visitors. Perhaps in a future version that could be added, but I do not see that as being of primary importance to a site’s users.
As David says above, there is nothing “flawed” with BuddyPress. BP is still in its infancy. It has a ways to grow but has come a very long way in a short amount of time–thanks to the wonderful spirit and contributions of BP’s open source community!
In fact, in my opinion, BP has a much stronger core foundation, a far superior support and developer community, and is significantly more flexible and easier to customize than Elgg. But, let’s not start a platform war here. This is a BuddyPress forum and suggestions to improve BP are always welcome.
You of course are free to choose whichever platform best suits your needs. But a full-blown ACL system, although possible, is not necessarily practical.
As far as the specifics of access control in BP, please reread my post above:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-privacy-component-an-update#post-23815
In reply to: Activity Widget Time is off.Which versions of WPMU and BP are you running?
I noticed tonight that the description in Themes for bp-default says
The template files are located in /themes/bp-sn-parent/messages. The stylesheet files are located in /themes/bp-default.
Why would WPMu be looking for template files in a directory under bp-sn-parent/, rather than in that directory?
That is very strange. There have been two other reports of something similar–except one listed /blogs the other listed /groups.
- https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/child-themes-working#post-23669
- https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/upgrading-to-1111-beta#post-23646
Please file a ticket so that we remember this issue. Perhaps with a little more information, we might be abel to find out why some people have seen this behavior.
In reply to: Group activity displaying other group activityOkay, I cannot recreate this behavior anymore on my two test sites–in fact, I’m now questioning whether or not I actually remember ever seeing this.
I’m currently running r1882 on both sites, having upgraded a couple of days ago from r1865. I know that Group Activity streams were just added a week or two ago. Hum? Has anything changed in the group codebase in that short amount of time? Or actually, in bp_activity_content() which filters the activity stream.
Diego-
Which versions of Mu and BP are you running?
In reply to: Group activity displaying other group activityAh, well I stand corrected!
I had assumed this to be normal behavior and never questioned it on my test installs. Come to think about it, I should have noticed this as my privacy filter allows for the filtering of group activity actions.
I’ve reset this thread to “not resolved”.
In reply to: Group activity displaying other group activityYou’re welcome! I’m setting this resolved.
In reply to: Activity Widget Time is off.There are so many causes of time-settings problems that you really have to dig into the threads and see if you can find what’s causing your particular issue.
Here are a few to start:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/time-offset-is-incorrect#post-22818
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/the-tale-of-the-time#post-14726
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/timezone-problem#post-11955
In reply to: Group activity displaying other group activityI’m not sure that this is an issue. If you look at the tables in the DB, you will see that there is no specific group-activity stream.
What you are seeing is the activity of each of the group’s members being reported. Since they are members of that group, their activity anywhere in your site is reported. It is, in essence, a record of what this group’s members are doing–inside and outside of the group.
In reply to: Hiding a memberInteresting question. I have not heard of an way to do this, but it should be possible with some behind the scenes coding.
Have you checked the WPMU or bbPress plugin repositories to see if such a plugin exists?
In reply to: Private ProfilesThe solution you linked to does not work with BP 1.1 because it relies on a core function that is now deprecated. It also relies on hacking a core file, which is never a good idea.
My Privacy Component will be out soon.
In reply to: How can I follow my tickets on trac?You’re welcome!
In reply to: BuddyPress Privacy Component: An UpdateThe BuddyPress Privacy Plugin offers members the means with which to control who has access to their data. It is a user-focused solution. It is not a component-based solution.
I want some of my membership site open to the general public, but the core information – profile data – I want to provide access to premium subscribers.
It does not offer a Site Admin a mechanism with which to control access to entire BP core components–as you are desiring here. That requires a different approach.
In reply to: BuddyPress Upgrade Killed My Blog. HELP.The auto upgrade usually does its job. But you are using a version of WPMU (2.7.1) that is 5 months old. Also, you were attempting to upgrade from a version of BP that was at least that old as well.
Whenever that many months have elapsed between your updating software versions, it is wise to check the readme.txt files and make sure that the versions you are using are compatible with each other. Had you done so, you would see at the top of BuddyPress’ v1.0.3 readme.txt file that you need at least WPMU 2.8.1.
=== Plugin Name ===
Contributors: apeatling
Tags: wpmu, buddypress, social, networking, profiles, messaging, friends, groups, forums, activity
Requires at least: WordPress MU 2.8.1
Tested up to: 2.8.1
Stable tag: 1.0.3During those five months, many updates have been made to both platforms. In fact, it is recommended that you upgrade WPMU to 2.8.4a for security reasons. Here’s some information that might help in upgrading WPMU.
As for your comment here:
Crash occured after fatal error during BP upgrade (If it’s not possible to upgrade automatically you REALLY SHOULD REMOVE THAT S***[edited for content] FROM THE OPTIONS. DAYUMN. )
That is an issue. I’m not sure that it has been reported, but as you are the first to report such a bug in the BuddyPress forums, you should check in WPMU Trac and see if it has been reported. If not, add a new ticket.
Before activating BuddyPress, did you delete the /bp-themes/ directory? If you do not, and then activate BP and choose the new theme framework, BP can have issues resolving which theme system–the old or the new–your wanting to use.
In reply to: How can I follow my tickets on trac?The “View Tickets > My Tickets” option only pulls up tickets that are assigned to you. In other words, are tickets that you are going to investigate, come up with a solution, and then provide a patch. So, “My Tickets” does not mean “tickets which I’ve created”, it means tickets I have be assigned to fix.
Of course, if you believe that you already have found the solution and have created a patch, then you should place your login name into the “Assign to” field. But, do not place your login name into that field if you are not going to work on solving the problem.
How do you guys manage your tickets?
We only look at tickets as being ours if the have been assigned to us by Andy or we have self-assigned them and are actively working on a solution to them.
In reply to: BuddyPress Privacy Component: An UpdateThe answer is yes and no.
The privacy component is designed to offer users a mechanism to assign access rights (viewing rights) to their various core BP object groupings. It is not designed to let users assign per-item access control to any and all objects. So, for instance as you suggest, at this stage a user will not be able to assign an individual image discrete access rights. Why? Because photos (album objects) are not part of BP’s current core.
Please be advised that this component only provides the assignment of privacy levels to BP’s core object groupings. All 3rd-party components will need to code their own privacy control features–using this component as a model and tying into its access-control table.
Remember that this is a first version Privacy Component, so new features will be added later.
A little more about access control
Typically, Access Control Lists and protocols focus on flexibly setting access rights to resources based on predefined roles (for example: site admin, group admin, moderator, editor, contributor, member, user). This type of access control is more often called, and more appropriately referred to as, role-based access control (RBAC). Role-based AC is necessary when two or more people are involved in the management, oversight, and even ownership of specific subsets of data. This group of people then need to be jointly authorized to perform certain functions.
But BuddyPress is a user-centric platform where there are currently no-jointly owned or controlled subsets of data. Ignoring the overall Site Administrator, in BuddyPress, there is a one-to-one relationship between a given piece of data and a single owner of that data. Even groups (at this time) are owned and controlled by one user. Group Moderators are limited in their power and do not own anything.
The core BP privacy component is what I am calling a light-weight ACL implementation. At some point it may make sense to offer a separate, full-fledged RBAC system but I’m guessing that only a few devs who truly understood such a system would take advantage of it.
Offering privacy control on BuddyPress’ core component objects is more than sufficient.
In reply to: Upload avatar failedThis is a very old thread that has not seen any activity for 5 months until your post. BuddyPress has changed significantly during that time, so whatever was the OP’s issue it is more than likely not the same as your current issue. Also, this thread is marked as resolved so it will more than likely get passed over by most people.
Please read this thread and then start a new post.
In reply to: Trouble logging in on v1.1Read Andy’s comment here:
In reply to: BuddyPress Privacy Component: An UpdateHere’s a one-page PDF that shows the 6 access control levels of BPAz:
In reply to: BuddyPress Privacy Component: An UpdateI had considered adding the ability to block a certain user or groups of users but then realized that the selections that are offered do in fact block groups of users by virtue of them not being able to view a given object. For example, if a particular user is bothering you, and they are not in your friends listing, you can make an object only viewable to friends. This, in essence, will block them.
Possibly future versions of the component could enable the grouping of several filter options or even include the ability to filter out certain users. But suffice it to say that the first version offers plenty of options and flexibility.
Since forums are not a core-created object but in fact are objects pulled into BuddyPress from an outside plugin, BPAz will not offer a filtering option for forums. There are simply too many distinct objects that bbPress creates. It truly needs its own privacy filtering system. Therefore, it is up to bbPress to offer such privacy options or a 3rd-party bbPress developer.
In reply to: How to Find the Correct Theme Path for Child Themes?You do not have the proper syntax for locate_template().
In reply to: BuddyPress Privacy Component: An Updatejust remember not all our themes are that wide…
Haha!
Since the goal is to eventually have this component merged into BuddyPress core, its CSS is designed to work with BuddyPress’ default theme. It is up to each user to style their site the way they see fit. Anyone with CSS experience will have no problem doing that.
In reply to: Renamed the folder.You changed the site’s URL.
