(Weird, I tried twice to post this earlier and while the topic created, it says “There are no posts for this topic.”. The irony… Anyway, here I go again:)

I’m getting the “There was an error when creating the topic” error message when I’m trying to post on some of my groups. Looking at the database, there’s no forum_id set on the wp_bp_groups_groupmeta table, nor there’s a bbPress forum for these groups.

If I manually disable and re-enable forums for an affected group, then it starts working fine, and the forum_id is added and the bbpress forum is created.

The problem is I can’t do this manually for all the groups, since I have a HUGE number. Over 100k. Is there a way of enabling forums in batch? Or perhaps wipe the current forums and re-install them, forcing BP to create forums again for every single group (I don’t mind losing the current forum content). I tried the re-install function on the control panel and it didn’t make a difference. The old forum tables are still there, and the problem groups still don’t have a forum.

[@gunju2221 Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

Tell ALL your group administrators to do this in their group to make the forums work properly. If there is over 100K groups, you must have a LOT of group owners, or, 90% of them are spam groups.

If they are spam, you must go in and delete them all.

[@nlaspf Member 13 years, 6 months ago]

There are no spam groups, and I’m the only admin for all of them. There is no way this could be done manually, hence looking for another way.

[@djpaul Keymaster 13 years, 6 months ago]

Enabling a group forum just sets, if I remember, a group meta value. You could set those on with a SQL query.

[@nlaspf Member 13 years, 6 months ago]

There’s the enable_forum field on the bp_groups table. All of my groups have this set to 1. But changing this doesn’t actually create a forum for the groups that don’t have one. It just enables the “Forum” tab for that group, and I get the error message if I try to post.

Disabling and enabling the forums from the front end not only changes the enable_forum field, but it also creates a bbPress forum and sets the corresponding forum_id.