See this topic for help getting group forums up and running https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471
I agree completely that we need some help text that guides the users. I like the idea of hooks that allow template authors and site admins to modify the text that is presented to a user. Or that add a ‘help’/’see here for details’ hook.
Andy is usually pretty good about adding filters and actions. He’s a filter and action happy kinda guy. 
If you gather up all the spots that need a help action or don’t have a filter already, I’m sure he’d be happy to add them.
Post your requirements in trac. Things like this in the forums just get lost in the general mayhem of it all.
Lemme go look at this. I was just in that area about a week ago.
(later) Works for me. Lots of u-umlaut chars going to and from bp group forums, to bbpress and back again. Showing up as proper u-umlaut chars. Andy just installed some fixes lately in this area. Try upgrading to the latest bp trunk.
The fixes include an upgrade to the buddypress-enable.php plugin that runs in bbpress. Don’t forget that.
Howdy. Your bbpress install is probably in a subdirectory under your document root. Looks like in /groupforum. In that subdir you put your bbpress .htaccess file that bbpress recommends for you. In your document root goes your wpmu .htaccess file that wpmu generates for you. bbpress doesn’t generate one. You have to copy/paste it to an editor and then put it in your bbpress install directory.
I am all messed up. I have an htaccess in my main Buddy…do I need one also in BBpress? I put one in BBpress with “Options +MultiViews”, but that didn’t work. Then I put in the output from “http://maxbrawn.com/groupforum/bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php” and that didn’t work.
I am lost. When I put in an htacess in the BBpress directory with the output from rewrite rules it can’t find the forum.
Update…now I can find the forum…but it does not post from Buddy to forum…this is a train wreck
My BBpress first topic reads…
http://maxbrawn.com/groupforum/topic/your-first-topic
Should I change the custom structure in Buddy, or change the pretty permalink in BBpress? I am lost on this.
I changed both to numeric, but nothing happened. And how does this relate to the htaccess? I don’t see the link…
EDIT…I think I found a thread on this…working on it as we speak. Thanks for the help.
If i write in the BuddyPress Group Forum in the Buddypress Frontend, all the Umlauts are gone and look like in the first post above.
If i view this in the bbPress frontend the Umlauts are also broken.
When i write into the bbPress Frontend direkt then the Umlauts are ok. They are also ok, when i list them in the BuddyPress Group Forum. So the transfer from bbPress to BuddyPress is ok, the other way around it does not work.
theuseruper – thanks for pointing me over here, although I still don’t have any answers, I’m having a similar problem.
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=957
I don’t think it’s my server, as my site was working great for months before I upgraded.
Thanks Trent. I’m all updated to the Bleeding edge on everything.
My BuddyPress is working just fine so far.
Thanks for the response. I love the extended WP community. Nice to have brilliant friends everywhere.
Stay Human
I’m looking at the caching that bbpress_live is doing and it’s using the wp_options table as a cache. huh? Maybe Sam knows something we don’t about the standard wp cache. I know that somethings aren’t fired up when an xmlrpc server gets instantiated. We’re using client xmlrpc services and wp is fully loaded and ready when we are using group forums. The wp cache should be avail. Gotta look further.
Got any input on this anyone? Why isn’t it using the wp object cache? I can make it do so but if there is some overriding reason then..
@12thharmonic that would work *if and only if* that install is running WPMU 2.7 and bbPress 1.0 alpha 4+ since the forum integration in buddypress needs bbPress 1.0 alpha series and that can only be integrated with WPMU 2.7 (unreleased). Don’t know of anyone that got this working with WPMU 2.6.5, but if they did, I would be interested in finding out.
Trent
exact same probs here.. everything is from the trunks.. something has gotten screwed up in the trunk eds.. cos i was using the release till yday for all and tho the forums problem cropped up, everything else worked sweet… wait ill just deactivate all plugins and see..
Should integration with an established bbpress install be OK?
One that’s been going a while?
Cheers
I’ll take https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/224
Clear forums cache when replying to a post.
Took a quick look and it seems that the cache is serving up a topic and it’s replies. The cache isn’t being updated when a reply is created. It serves up the topic and all it’s replies until it gets stale. Then it goes and gets fresh stuff.
I’ll take a look around at the other caching activity down in there too.
Speaking of caches. We got the same problem here. Post a new reply and you get served up the prev page without your new post. wp-super-cache? It doesn’t happen all the time. Just most of the time.
Oh ya, I don’t think these bugs you’ve listed are very ‘outstanding’ at all Andy. An really interesting bug would be:
“When I view my profile my washer and dryer quit working”. That would be outstanding!
The Facebook Connect plug-in works beautifully on regular WP, but not WPMU. I’ve heard on other forums that there are just a couple of bugs keeping it from working with MU, so it might be very easy to implement…for someone who knows how. (I don’t.)
This may have been discussed elsewhere in the forum, I apologize in advance if it was.
Plugin: Auto Delete Messages/Inactive Blogs after X Number of Days.
I’m sure messages take up space in the database – why not delete when after X number of days, where X is a number that the admin defines. The same thing could be done with inactive blogs as well. Of course it would automatically send a warning out to the user warning them that an update is recommended or the blog will be deleted.
Anything is possible. There is a feature freeze until 1.0 is released. Fine idea though.
Yes, please. That would be awesome.
