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Hi John,

You mean in the admin for one of my actual groups, correct, not the admin for the whole site?

I’ve tried disabling, then re-enabling the forums option in one of my groups. Unfortunately, this seems to have no effect – same symptom. And nothing showing up in my Web error log, either, so I’m having a tough time even telling what’s wrong.

Is there a brute-force way to reset the groups’ forum option to zero, perhaps in a way that would be more effective than just unchecking this option? Any other way to gather some data on what may be happening here? Thanks!

copgarden: What were you upgrading from? How was your forum set up prior to the upgrade? I’m guessing there must be something different in your setup relative to mine.

Update – I have tried creating a NEW group and posting to that. That works fine. So I suspect that perhaps the issue is that the previous groups are trying to point to our old forums installation? I just need to figure out how to revert our existing 25 groups to whatever

In the database, how does BuddyPress 1.1 point groups at the appropriate forum in its new integrated bbPress install?

Actually, as I think about this, it makes sense that this didn’t work. Presumably, when you opt for a fresh install, it sets up bbPress inside buddypress but does not try to create any new forums. So how can I force those groups to create new forums, I wonder, if checking / unchecking doesn’t work?

On the same lines, for some reason – even though I opted to do a fresh install – the Forums link on the main homepage is still trying to point to our old forum install (that is, domain.com/forums).

http://noisepages.com

Now I feel bad that I ran out of time in late August / September and was unable to contribute to the test process, but that’s how it goes some of the time.

The reason I ultimately opted for a fresh install, even with existing groups, was that I discovered the option to *migrate* an existing install a) left bbpress as a separate install, which I didn’t want, and b) because we had opted to put bbpress’s tables in a database separate from the wordpress mu database.

So, the question is, how do we take these existing 25 groups and give them forums to connect to in the new bbpress-in-buddypress setup?

Hi John – thanks for the detailed response. I did read the documentation. The problem is – and I didn’t realize this until after my first attempt at the upgrade was finished – that documentation doesn’t appear to cover the scenario of an existing, integrated bbPress setup with bbPress stored in a *different* database. So, initially, I tried to choose the existing installation. When that didn’t work, I went back into admin and chose the option that allows you to try again with a fresh installation. What I’m trying to fix now is a *new* bbPress installation – but with existing groups.

Certainly, what you describe makes absolute sense. So now, I’m just looking for a resolution. I’m not concerned about existing forum posts; I think we can start fresh.

I’m looking now at the database. In wp_bp_groups_groupmeta, I see id and group_id.

In wp_bp_groups, I see id and enable_forum.

But enable_forum is the boolean for that checkbox. I don’t see where the forum_id is stored; it’s not listed as a field in either of those tables. Do I need to look at the bbpress table? How is the forum id matched up with the group id, since that seems to be the issue? Presumably if I delete the fields for that metadata, then disable the forum option for each of the groups, then re-enable, it should create new forums, yes? But where do I find that forum ID metadata, or can I actually simply delete the metadata for each of the groups that has a forum?