I have the same wish , use more 2-3 fields below TITLE and DESCRIPTION and wait until new Group Extras will be released , and use that as the main Group Description page (in wordpress dashboard ADMIN – setup the kind of form , in buddypress admin fill out the form which sends the data to description page to show up another 20-30 fields about every single group.
I’ve seen somewhere here on this forum the code which you can add to the function.php which adds one extra field (text field) to the that group in the first step of group creation below description , it showed up in Groups Description below description field , I have installed as a plugin but it didn’t show up in any place (groups directory-groups page), so I didn’t know how to display that and I have uninstalled it . I don’t remember where you can find it , try to search for that here ” groups extra field, add field groups, etc.
@Alan, or can someone please help me look at this code to know if something is wrong, have tried it and everything seems ok if the member did not add the “country field” as it shows the link and take you to the edit page, but immediately you input the field “Country” e.g “UK” and save, it breaks both Admin bar and the Sidebar.
You seem to be using older version of BuddyPress/ Bp-theme.
Upgrade your BuddyPress(and also the theme if you are using a different theme than bp-default). This is happening because the jquery included in wp3.2 is jquery v 1.6.1(which changed the way some of the properties are accessed).
You will need to upgrade your BuddyPress to 1.2.9.
Upgrade the BP and It will be fixed.
Thank you Gorges, but I already activated the invite anyone. It needs email addresses; what I want is for users to be able to search for other members on multiple criteria and to invite them. With 10.000 members you don’t want your users to have to scroll through the whole list to find someone.
I’m not a developper but with some reasoning I reckon it must be simple to use the profile form. I put a lot of fields there as required and text becomes links as well. You could let a search and invite feed on the profile information.
Nothing like that available?
And how difficult will it be to create a plugin like that?
Lol ok so idk what’s going on with the site…but whenever I try to edit my old posts I’m getting a page not found error…so ill fix the two comments above in the morning…till then…here are the URLs 
Normal Page:
http://pastebin.com/PrGSEbkd
Full-Width Page:
http://pastebin.com/Zev3PuZt
goodnight everyone haha
@Alan, i will try it and if i run into any problem , i will let you know.
regards
This probably would be better as a feaure request over on trac :
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/
I’m assuming you are looking to get this done as a change to BuddyPress not just a custom edit or plugin right?
Ok, this thing wont let me edit my last post…anyway, I said that the thing screwing with my autocomplete was the “Buddypress Sitewide activity widget” plugin….but what I didn’t said is that actually is the Buddypress Sitewide activity widget V 1.1.3 was the problem!….I installed the lastest version (1.1.3.1) and the autocomplete works great! 
cheers!
Hello!!
I would like to add something here!
I had the same problem….the autocomplete not working was driving me crazy….really….and after lots of days (and eternal nights) of suffer and horror I found the problem!!! 
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So in my case the cause was a plugin called “Buddypress Sitewide activity widget”…..why?, I don’t really know yet…..but this for all those who need an alternative answer for their autocomplete problems 
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Cheers!
When you activate a BuddyPress-compatible theme, like BuddyPress Default, you will see a Members tab at the top of the screen. That is the public Members Directory, where users can browse or search.
`So no plugins to be able to invite people other than the not working one which says when trying to install that it has not been tested yet for my version of WP?`
There is a plugin called Invite Anyone that provides several for group and site invitations: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invite-anyone/ It is compatible with the latest WP and BP. The only reason it doesn’t list its compatibility in the WP repo is because WP requires me to release a new version of the plugin in order to update its compatibility, and I have no good reason to do this. Without Invite Anyone, group members can only invite Friends to the group.
Thanks, not sure what I was googleing for before but i have now found a buddypress theme switcher plugin
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/advanced-theme-switcher
however i can’t get it to work and their forums are only for paying members 
Still i’m a bit closer then I was before!
@Andrea_r Yes, I understand that the link is the activation. But where is the activation code that its asking me to enter…
As I stated in previous posts…..
when I click the link, I am sometimes taken to a page where im asked to enter a activation key. But there is no activation key in the email. Just a link.
Clicking the link doesn’t add the activation code in the input field does it? Where is the email with the activation code that needs to be entered in to input
@Andrea_r Nope, cant post a link cause its not live yet and client would freak.
Here’s what happens.
I get an email. It contains an activation link. If I click that link, sometimes im taken to a page that asks for an activation key to be entered in to an field. But I never received an activation key.
@Andrea_r so youre saying there are two emails? One with the link and another with the key?
If thats the case, Why does one email come through with the link and the other doesnt?
Thanks.
Switch your theme to the default one included with buddypress and then try those tasks again.
nearest I can think of is a theme switcher widget (yes, they exist all over the plugin repo) and t won’t be labelled buddypress-specific.
this will get you close. you’ll have to test because you might get wonky results. And tell the client he’s not gonna get all he wants. ;)P
Im working for new plugin (framework) for building web services ,this allows expose functionality of wordpress, buddypress or any other functions to other web sites and desktop applications. It is similar to the APIs provided by sites like Flickr and Twitter 
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@4ella is right. After BuddyPress 1.3 will be released, I will update my BP Groups Extras.
I have the same needs , to add new fields to the groups, @slaffik has developed Groups Extras which gives you new fields but problem is that you have to create the form for every single group again and again , so you will spend a lot of time with creating the form where you can add unlimited fields (this is nice) , I asked him to create only one or more forms in admin dashboard and to add this form to groups creation single page (group description page) , he has said that he will release new version with BP 1.3 . In the meantime when the upgraded plugin will be released I would welcome to add some new fields to the group creation below Title and Description as you have suggested.
I couldn’t get this theme to work with the latest trunk version of BP from a few days ago. I stuck the theme in the both /wp-content/themes/ and in /plugins/buddypress/themes/, and everything, but WP would never pick it up.
I found a workaround by making all new members automatically member of a “member directory” group. That way they can see all other members. Unfortunately there’s no search attached which means when you have a lot of members it will be very difficult if not impossible to find somebody. There is a search under “invite to the group” but it’s not working.
