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This bug is potentially costing me a client, I’ve got to get a gasp on it soon. I reinstalled everything and started with a fresh database and the issue is still there. So let me ask a more broad question –

What does BP ask of a user to be eligible to join a group (public, private and hidden)?
User must be logged in, and….?

it happens only with my friends

buddypress.1.5 and using bp-default theme

Small update: I enabled the friending component of BP to invite a user to a group and that worked. However, in what might be an unrelated case, hitting “new topic” on all pages that have that button, as any user, does nothing. I believe it’s related – there’s a common condition failing for a number of functions due to botched permissions.

Perhaps a drag and drop update to BP 1.6 bleeding messed up the user table? I believe I did that after the issue showed up.

Thanks Ray, I’ll keep an eye on that ticket. I’m not sure it’s what I’m experiencing however. Despite having the same WP, BP, plugins and theme, the buttons to join both public and private groups do not appear for any user, only on my production site. When on the page for a private group you’re not a member of, there is a tab link to request membership which will show the “You do not have access to this group” error, but the issue is higher than that since joining any group is somehow unavailable.

i try to get it running and provide my version if it works.

maybe interesting for other users with private groups heavily used:
i modified the function “groups_add_forum_where_sql” starting at line 88 in /bp-groups/bp-groups-filters.php.
I added the following block at line 110:
elseif ( is_user_logged_in() )
unset( $parts );
therefore all logged in users get the same view as an admin and see updates in all private group forums (error message when clicking of threads they are not allowed to). next step would be to filter out group forums where the user has no permission.
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is there an function which could be used for that filtering in bp (replacing is_user_logged_in())?
or is custom sql code needed here?

I’ve reinstalled WP, and BP, deactivated plugins and looked though all the settings I can find. This must be a bug but I’m not sure what’s cause it. Clearly the issue is in the database. Backing up all the content on production and reinstalling everything is the only way I know to fix this.

Unless someone else has an idea . Anyone?

Sorry for the bump, but any ideas? On the broken site, “do_action( ‘bp_directory_groups_actions’ );” isn’t returning anything. I tried sifting through to get the condition that’s failing but haven’t found it yet.

there is not to much activity on this ticket unfortunately.

especially if private groups are heavily used it is hardly comprehensible for users that some threads appear, but others are not displayed. this was the feedback of my beta test users (i’am just in the process of launching a new community for gamers and some power users of my old page are testing my bp installation).

If it is not possible to use the Group-Forums-Directory- is there any other Point where a user can view all new threads they are able to read?

is it still that hard to implement the bugfix with the new 1.5 api?

ok figured what I could do, unfortunately almost all the plugins are useless now. some of theme like private buddypress is key, is there a way to keep profile pages offlimits to non-registered users?
My main question is this, I can set the media embed max width in the admin panel, and I can set in wp-config define(‘BPFB_OEMBED_WIDTH’, 200, true);
but videos still embed at full size, which means, that on the mobile site, using bp mobile, the video runs off the edge of people’s touchscreens. that’s it, I know no other way to have a safe transition to the new bp, which will should be called, due to all the changes, 2.0
that should be about it, I figured that i have to completely rebuild the site, once I have the compatible plugins set, I will update the ones on the remote server and remove the ones which don’t work, move my theme and hope to god I don’t loose my 400+ registered members….uggh

wow it really was the dots!