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I second this! An extended search function would be really great. Finding people based on interests, gender and age-span (e.g. finding single women interested in theatre, aged 30-50) would make BP so much more usable. One could start a dating site, or people can create groups and invite new members based on certain criteria.

Somewhat agree, is there a feature request for something like this?

Invite shouldn’t be possible without acknowledgment as those group members are then subject to posts, messages, etc. HOWEVER, admin should be able to invite any one to any group without being friends. The group functions isn’t exactly intuitive to people that aren’t savvy with the internet so being able to send members invites to appropriate groups to pull them along a little is a good idea.

function bp_group_admin_only(){

global $bp, $current_blog;

global $group_obj, $is_single_group;



if (!is_site_admin()){

remove_action( 'wp', 'groups_setup_nav', 2 );

}

}



/* I am using the same function (groups_setup_nav) as BuddyPress to avoid

* any hacking to the original code

*/



function manoj_groups_setup_nav(){



if (!is_site_admin() ){



global $bp, $current_blog;

global $group_obj, $is_single_group;



if ( $group_id = BP_Groups_Group::group_exists($bp->current_action) ) {

/* This is a single group page. */

$is_single_group = true;

$group_obj = new BP_Groups_Group( $group_id );



/* Using "item" not "group" for generic support in other components. */

if ( is_site_admin() )

$bp->is_item_admin = 1;

else

$bp->is_item_admin = groups_is_user_admin( $bp->loggedin_user->id, $group_obj->id );



/* If the user is not an admin, check if they are a moderator */

if ( !$bp->is_item_admin )

$bp->is_item_mod = groups_is_user_mod( $bp->loggedin_user->id, $group_obj->id );



/* Is the logged in user a member of the group? */

$is_member = ( groups_is_user_member( $bp->loggedin_user->id, $group_obj->id ) ) ? true : false;



/* Should this group be visible to the logged in user? */

$is_visible = ( 'public' == $group_obj->status || $is_member ) ? true : false;

}



/* Add 'Groups' to the main navigation */

bp_core_add_nav_item( __('Groups', 'buddypress'), $bp->groups->slug );



if ( $bp->displayed_user->id )

bp_core_add_nav_default( $bp->groups->slug, 'groups_screen_my_groups', 'my-groups' );



$groups_link = $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->groups->slug . '/';



/* Add the subnav items to the groups nav item */

bp_core_add_subnav_item( $bp->groups->slug, 'my-groups', __('My Groups', 'buddypress'), $groups_link, 'groups_screen_my_groups', 'my-groups-list' );

//bp_core_add_subnav_item( $bp->groups->slug, 'create', __('Create a Group', 'buddypress'), $groups_link, 'groups_screen_create_group', false, bp_is_home() );

bp_core_add_subnav_item( $bp->groups->slug, 'invites', __('Invites', 'buddypress'), $groups_link, 'groups_screen_group_invites', false, bp_is_home() );



if ( $bp->current_component == $bp->groups->slug ) {



if ( bp_is_home() && !$is_single_group ) {



$bp->bp_options_title = __('My Groups', 'buddypress');



} else if ( !bp_is_home() && !$is_single_group ) {



$bp->bp_options_avatar = bp_core_get_avatar( $bp->displayed_user->id, 1 );

$bp->bp_options_title = $bp->displayed_user->fullname;



} else if ( $is_single_group ) {

// We are viewing a single group, so set up the

// group navigation menu using the $group_obj global.



/* When in a single group, the first action is bumped down one because of the

group name, so we need to adjust this and set the group name to current_item. */

$bp->current_item = $bp->current_action;

$bp->current_action = $bp->action_variables[0];

array_shift($bp->action_variables);



$bp->bp_options_title = bp_create_excerpt( $group_obj->name, 1 );

$bp->bp_options_avatar = '<img src="' . $group_obj->avatar_thumb . '" alt="Group Avatar Thumbnail" />';



$group_link = $bp->root_domain . '/' . $bp->groups->slug . '/' . $group_obj->slug . '/';



// If this is a private or hidden group, does the user have access?

if ( 'private' == $group_obj->status || 'hidden' == $group_obj->status ) {

if ( groups_is_user_member( $bp->loggedin_user->id, $group_obj->id ) &amp;&amp; is_user_logged_in() )

$has_access = true;

else

$has_access = false;

} else {

$has_access = true;

}



// Reset the existing subnav items

bp_core_reset_subnav_items($bp->groups->slug);

// bp_core_add_nav_default( $bp->groups->slug, 'groups_screen_group_home', 'home' );

bp_core_add_subnav_item( $bp->groups->slug, 'home', __('Home', 'buddypress'), $group_link, 'groups_screen_group_home', 'group-home' );



// If the user is a group mod or more, then show the group admin nav item */

if ( $bp->is_item_mod || $bp->is_item_admin )

bp_core_add_subnav_item( $bp->groups->slug, 'admin', __('Admin', 'buddypress'), $group_link , 'groups_screen_group_admin', 'group-admin', ( $bp->is_item_admin + (int)$bp->is_item_mod ) );



// If this is a private group, and the user is not a member, show a "Request Membership" nav item.

if ( !$has_access &amp;&amp; !groups_check_for_membership_request( $bp->loggedin_user->id, $group_obj->id ) &amp;&amp; $group_obj->status == 'private' )

bp_core_add_subnav_item( $bp->groups->slug, 'request-membership', __('Request Membership', 'buddypress'), $group_link , 'groups_screen_group_request_membership', 'request-membership' );



if ( $has_access &amp;&amp; $group_obj->enable_forum &amp;&amp; function_exists('bp_forums_setup') )

bp_core_add_subnav_item( $bp->groups->slug, 'forum', __('Forum', 'buddypress'), $group_link , 'groups_screen_group_forum', 'group-forum', $is_visible);



if ( $has_access &amp;&amp; $group_obj->enable_wire &amp;&amp; function_exists('bp_wire_install') )

bp_core_add_subnav_item( $bp->groups->slug, 'wire', __('Wire', 'buddypress'), $group_link, 'groups_screen_group_wire', 'group-wire', $is_visible );



if ( $has_access &amp;&amp; $group_obj->enable_photos &amp;&amp; function_exists('bp_gallery_install') )

bp_core_add_subnav_item( $bp->groups->slug, 'photos', __('Photos', 'buddypress'), $group_link, 'groups_screen_group_photos', 'group-photos', $is_visible );



if ( $has_access )

bp_core_add_subnav_item( $bp->groups->slug, 'members', __('Members', 'buddypress'), $group_link, 'groups_screen_group_members', 'group-members', $is_visible );



if ( is_user_logged_in() &amp;&amp; groups_is_user_member( $bp->loggedin_user->id, $group_obj->id ) ) {

if ( function_exists('friends_install') )

bp_core_add_subnav_item( $bp->groups->slug, 'send-invites', __('Send Invites', 'buddypress'), $group_link, 'groups_screen_group_invite', 'group-invite', $is_member );



bp_core_add_subnav_item( $bp->groups->slug, 'leave-group', __('Leave Group', 'buddypress'), $group_link, 'groups_screen_group_leave', 'group-leave', $is_member );

}

}

}

}

}

add_action( 'wp', 'bp_group_admin_only',1);

add_action( 'wp', 'manoj_groups_setup_nav',2);

A great addition for me would be to create ‘Group Events’, events which are associated with specific groups.

Say my group wanted to organise a meetup, we could go to our group page and under “Forum, Wire, Members” etc there would be a “Group Events” option, which when clicked would show all our events and have an option to add a new one. When creating that event we could choose to send invites to the members of the group instead of adding them individually.

If the group is private or hidden our events would also be private/hidden. Group Events would also appear on my personal Events page.

Just thought I’d show interest in an events module/addition to groups too.

As already mentioned being able to create an event with info, invite members and allow an RSVP would be brilliant. Just throwing in a few more thoughts:

– Allowing users to click say “I’m attending”/”I might attend”/”I’m not attending” buttons and their status showing on the events would be great.

– Have an “invited but not replied” status.

– Have maybe public/private events. Public events allow anyone (in that group?) to sign up/invite others, private events don’t.

As I say – just a few thoughts… Such a module/extension of groups would be amazing.

The topic https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=843 has been closed and i feel sorry for it, because with my later installation wp MU 2.7 + BP béta 2, i’m still having this error msg :

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/np5397/domains/blogi.ee/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-signup.php on line 104

when creating a new blog

that cause several issues :

– can’t edit the profiles, create a group

– blogs are created but aren’t showing in the recent activity, neither in the blogs tabs or in his owner’s profile

– can’t send a message, invite somebody to be friend, etc

it seems that i have no x-profile tables in my db like burtadsit asks

(tableprefix_)bp_xprofile_groups

(tableprefix_)bp_xprofile_fields

(tableprefix_)bp_xprofile_data

here is the list of the tables in my db ; can’t see it

wp_1_comments,

wp_1_links,

wp_1_options,

wp_1_postmeta,

wp_1_posts,

wp_1_term_relationships,

wp_1_term_taxonomy,

wp_1_terms,

wp_2_comments,

wp_2_links,

wp_2_options,

wp_2_postmeta,

wp_2_posts,

wp_2_term_relationships,

wp_2_term_taxonomy,

wp_2_terms,

wp_3_comments,

wp_3_links,

wp_3_options,

wp_3_postmeta,

wp_3_posts,

wp_3_term_relationships,

wp_3_term_taxonomy,

wp_3_terms,

wp_4_comments,

wp_4_links,

wp_4_options,

wp_4_postmeta,

wp_4_posts,

wp_4_term_relationships,

wp_4_term_taxonomy,

wp_4_terms,

wp_blog_versions,

wp_blogs,

wp_registration_log,

wp_signups,

wp_site,

wp_sitecategories,

wp_sitemeta,

wp_usermeta,

wp_users

please how can i create manually those tables in my sqlDB ?

thanks for any advice

Nope. That function is the beginning of a series of things that happens. The function that actually send out the emails is: groups_notification_group_invites() in /mu-plugins/bp-groups/bp-groups-notifications.php

Let me guess, you want to disable it there? Line 261 of that function is:

wp_mail( $to, $subject, $message );

Comment that out and no group invite email will ever leave your box.

maxaud, the function that does the work in bp is groups_send_invites() and it lives in bp-groups.php, line 1642.

function groups_send_invites( $group_obj ) {

global $bp;

This function serves both the group creation ‘send invites’ and the member theme ‘send invites’ in the group screen.

I’d put a return; statement right under that global $bp; statement. Users can flip all the switches they want but nothing will actually happen. The users will still see the capability but nothing will work.

Lemme test this to make sure…

No notification emails are actually sent. The screen says it did but it didn’t. The notification message “Group invites sent” isn’t part of that function you will be bypassing.

Yes “jbzz”, the ability to create events, invite people, rsvp, and send messages to attendees would be really great. Really nice fonctions for buddypress groups. I will use them as soon as they are available, for sure!!

Gaetan

Use a hidden group. Site admins can invite but not add without acceptance. You could write a plugin to do that though.

Looks like someone has admin privs that you don’t know about. Check that out.

Also – group admins can kick and ban people. Kicking and banning a user from a group means they no longer have any access to that group, and cannot rejoin.

Group admins cannot add a user to a new group without the user first opting in. They can of course send group invites.

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I just finished ironing out the basics, and its a very limited BP install – no groups, no blogs, no access to the dashboard for non admins. They do have member profiles, and flickr for more photos. I’ve also integrated my wpmu DB with BB press for seamless logins.

I’m going to add more stuff when people request it, but for now I think I can start to invite people to use it!

I’m really thankful for all the help I’m receiving via the forums! Keep up the good work.

This is exactly what I’m trying to do – create a private, members-only site that could be either invite-only or have the registrants moderated by the admin. I would think this scenario would be pretty common with many groups – companies, orgs etc.

I’ve spent the past day and a half combing this forum and others looking for the solution. FYI, I’m not a PHP programmer, but I can copy and paste code when necessary. The closest I’ve gotten is with 2 methods:

– the plugin that Trent posted that PW-protects the member pages. It does allow new registrations but it doesn’t protect the home page or the groups.

– the More-Privacy-Options plugin mentioned above, with the “Site can be viewed by registered users only..” option turned on. The problem I’m having with this one is there’s nowhere for new people to apply/register. So if you’re a non-member and you go to any page (including the registration page) you get the login screen, which doesn’t have a Register link. I’m guessing there must be a workaround for this, but haven’t been able to find it yet.

Which brings me to another problem that I’m having, which is how to invite non-members into the site. I’ve got the “Invite Friends” plugin installed and it seems to work ok, but it’s only for the administrator, which is ok for now, but eventually it would be good to be able to allow site members to invite new people in. I see this as an option in the settings, and a link in the Friends sidebar.

Using a common example, Facebook is pretty much doing all of this now. So non-members arrive at the base URL to a landing page with an intro message, where they can register for membership. Plus existing members can invite (via a link in the friends area) non-members to join up.

Open a ticket please.