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That bug report entry was last updated 3 years ago and it’s status is still awaiting review and it says needs testing? I hope it’s not a bbPress issue since bbPress rarely gets updated. Any thoughts?

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Now, all I need to know is what is the workflow for members who create hidden groups to easily access their groups without having to find an activity entry with the group name and clicking it?

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How do I get the Hidden group forum topics visible to the non-admin users who are members (or creators) of hidden groups?

I got this to work by activating the BP Classic plugin.

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I really need help with this. A hidden group created by a member shows no topics in the Group Forum tab. There is a message saying:
“This forum has 1 topic, and was last updated 27 minutes ago by Pete.”

followed by a message saying:
“Oh, bother! No topics were found here.”

followed by an area to create a new topic. If I create a topic as user ‘Pete’ (subscriber user), I’m brought back to that page saying there are now 2 topics, but then the No topics were found here message.

How do I get the Hidden group forum topics visible to the non-admin users who are members (or creators) of hidden groups?

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In the online BuddyPress docs, it states:

List of Groups created in the site including time active stamp, group description, number of members and group privacy setting. Only Public and Private Groups are seen in list by regular members. Super/Site Admin sees all groups including Hidden groups.Action buttons – for logged in members only

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I’ll try again here. I have 1 hidden group (called “Hidden”) created by admin. Fred (subscriber) is invited to the group and Fred accepts the invitation. Fred creates a hidden group (called “Fred Hidden”) and invites admin who accepts the invitation.

When I’m logged in as admin and go to the site’s Forum listing (/forums) I see the group forum for all groups including the Hidden and Fred Hidden and can access them from there. Clicking on a link to either of the hidden groups’ forums brings me into the group’s Forum tab. From there I can navigate around the group and participate.

When I’m logged in as Fred, I don’t see either of the forums for the hidden groups that Fred belongs to. The only way to see what’s going in in either the group Hidden (to which Fred was invited) or the group Fred Hidden (created by Fred) is to find an activity entry for the group and then click it.

Is there an easier way for user Fred to check in on either of the two hidden groups?

Alternatively, is there a way to allow members to create public and private groups, but not hidden groups. The way it seems to be working for me right now, the workflow is too complicated for users to be able to figure out.

Looking forward to a response.

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More info…

I see the group Hidden created in the activity feed with a button that says “View Group”. I can get into the group that way. So the only way to get into the group is to find an activity listing, forum entry, or image, and then click the hidden group’s name?

Also, does the admin user have access to the hidden group if it’s not created by admin? And, can the admin user see content in the hidden group if the admin user is not specificly a member?

Thanks

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Thanks!

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@vapvarun Again, thanks for the help so far. Any other suggestions until the bbPress team fixes this?

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I deactivated BuddyPress and then selected ‘favorites’ from the generic bbPress profile page. Within the list of favorited topics, the ‘X’ has the following URL:
https://[site-url]/forums/users/admin/favorites/?action=bbp_favorite_remove&object_id=55&redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2F[site-url]%2Fforums%2Fusers%2Fadmin%2Ffavorites%2F&_wpnonce=198716f56b

When I click the ‘X’ it unfavorites is. I’m beginning to see what’s happening here. Thanks for your help so far.

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@vapvarun I changed the ‘Favorites’ slug in bbPress settings to ‘saved’, and then saved the settings. Then, I went into the Forums section of the profile and, in the ‘Favorites’ tab clicked the ‘X’ to unfavorite the topic. It didn’t work.

The URL behind the ‘X’ link is:
https://[site-url]/members/admin/forums/saved/?action=bbp_favorite_remove&object_id=55&redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2F[site-url]%2Fmembers%2Fadmin%2Fforums%2Fsaved%2F&_wpnonce=3e81531050

The URL to unsubscribe from within the bbPress list of topics is:
https://[site-url]/forums/topic/itching/?action=bbp_favorite_remove&object_id=55&_wpnonce=3e81531050

It looks like maybe the URL is not constructed correctly in BuddyPress?

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If it helps, I just disabled the BB Classic plugin (which I need until MediaPress updates to BB12 compatible. With BB Classic disabled, I get a 404 error when I click the Favorites or Subscriptions tab in the Forum section of BuddyPress Profile. I have a funny feeling that the problem with Unfavoriting and Unsubscribing has something to do with BuddyPress trying to create a URL with a redirect for bbPress.

Also, I did this test after updating to BuddyBoss 12.1.1 today. The URL to Unfavorite within the BuddyPress Profile is still with BB Classic enabled:

https://[site-url]/members/admin/forums/favorites/?action=bbp_favorite_remove&object_id=55&redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2F[site-url]%2Fmembers%2Fadmin%2Fforums%2Ffavorites%2F&_wpnonce=f9336f0991

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Is this maybe a bbPress issue and not a BuddyPress issue? I’m asking here because of the differrnce in URLs for doing the favorite/unfavorite or subscribe/unsubscribe from within bbPress as opposed to from within the BuddyPress profile section.

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From within the Forum section in the Member Profile under the ‘Favorites’ tab, the link behind the “X” is:
https://[site-url]/members/admin/forums/favorites/?action=bbp_favorite_remove&object_id=2133&redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2F[site-url]%2Fmembers%2Fadmin%2Fforums%2Ffavorites%2F&_wpnonce=d3c1b95e22

If I’m looking at the topic in Forums (bbPress), the link behind the ‘favorite’ link is:
https://[site_url]/discussions/topic/[topic-title]/?bbp-ajax=true&action=bbp_favorite_add&object_id=2133&_wpnonce=d3c1b95e22

Where:
[site-url] = the website url
[topic-title] = the topic’s title.

FYI, I am running the BuddyPress Classic plugin if this makes any difference.

NOTE: I understand that Favoriting an Activity post about a forum topic is different than Favoriting a Forum Topic. I know that you said:

To link “mark favorite” actions on bbPress topics to BuddyPress activities, you may need custom development or specific plugins, as it’s not a default feature.

but this is functionality that currently exists and just doesn’t work. I’m trying to provide you with as much information as I can.

Any help with this would be appreciated.

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After some more looking, I found that there is not an icon that is missing. The red “X” is there to remove the topic from favorites. The same is true for the red “X” in the subscriptions tab. The problem is that the URL for removing a topic as a favorite or as a subscribed topic is incorrect (or at least it is different than the URL used within bbPress.

I assume that when the red “X” is clicked, the topic should be unfavorited (or unsubscribed) and would then not appear in the Members’ profile forum tab. Since the URL is not doing it’s job, the topics stay there and in bbPress show as still favorited and/or subscribed.

So the URL seems to be the culprit.

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Thanks for the reply. I understand about linking the bbPress “favorite” to BuddyPress activities.

But my real concern is:

I can’t unfavorite a forum topic from my profile forum favorties.

Here’s the steps I took:
If I’m looking at my Favorites in /members/[username]/forums/favorites, I start out with none.
Then I go to /forums/topic/[topic] to view the topic.
Now I click the “favorite” link.
Now I go back to /members/[username]/forums/favorites, And I see the forum topic in the list of my Favorites.
There is a missing image/icon where the button to remove the topic from my favorites.
If I click there, it’s not removing the topic from my favorites. And in the forums on /forums/topic/[topic name], when I refresh, the link still says unfavorite.
If I click that, the topic refreshes and the link has changed to favorite (So it removed the topic from my favorites.
Then I go back to /members/[user name]/forums/favorites, and it’s gone.

The same is true with subscriptions.

When looking at a member’s profile in the Forum tab, the last two tabs are Favorites then Subscriptions.

Basically, in the topic list for favorites and subscribed topics within the Member Profile page, the listing of a member’s favorites and subscribed topics has a missing icon in the untitled column to the left of ‘view’ column. When I hover over it, the link displays to bbPress.

The similar view from within bbPress (sitewide as opposed to within the Profile page) has this icon. When I click the link, it toggles correctly.

As I think I just proved, a picture is worth a thousand words 🙂

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I’m using the free version of the BuddyX theme if that helps.

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Also, If I click the Mark as Favorite button in the site-wide activity feed entry for the topic creation, It shows up as marked as a favorite in the member’s activity feed (which I’d expect). But I’d also assume that ‘favoriting’ the activity entry implies that I’d like the actual forum topic set as a favorite as well.

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I didn’t realize that you meant Custom Links in the FSE. I was looking for a place to actually call the shortlink redirector in functions.php! It’s all set up to work with FSE themes. That’s awesome! Thanks for the help. It works well.

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How do I create a custom link, and how and where would I call the Members user shortlink redirector?

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Thanks for the quick response. By next major release, do you mean 12.1 or 13? Do you have any rough idea when this would be?

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Is anyone able to help with this?

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One more try to see if anyone can help with this

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Just checking to see if anyone has any ideas where to fix this