Solved!!
What I was testing was tracking comments. I realized that it worked by using the tutorial for tracking when new objects are created.
However, comments did not work so I ended up editing the creation of the custom post type. Posting the full code here if anyone else googles ignitiondeck buddypress integration:
ignitiondeck-admin.php line 5 to 46:
add_action( 'init', 'ign_create_post_type' );
function ign_create_post_type() {
require 'languages/text_variables.php';
$slug = apply_filters('idcf_archive_slug', __('projects', 'ignitiondeck'));
register_post_type( 'ignition_product',
array(
'labels' => array(
'name' => $tr_Projects,
'singular_name' => $tr_Project,
'add_new' => $tr_Add_New_Project,
'add_new_item' => $tr_Add_New_Project,
'edit' => $tr_Edit,
'edit_item' => $tr_Edit_Project,
'new_item' => $tr_New_Project,
'view' => $tr_View_Project,
'view_item' => $tr_View_Project,
'search_items' =>$tr_Search_Project,
'not_found' => $tr_No_Products_found ,
'not_found_in_trash' => $tr_No_Product_in_Trash,
'all_items' => __( 'All Videos' ),
),
'public' => true,
'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'exclude_from_search' => false,
'hierarchical' => apply_filters('idcf_hierarchical', false),
'menu_position' => 5,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'menu_icon' => plugins_url( '/images/ignitiondeck-menu.png', __FILE__ ),
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => apply_filters('id_register_project_post_rewrite', array('slug' => $slug, 'with_front' => true)),
'has_archive' => apply_filters('id_register_project_post_has_archive', $slug),
'supports' => array( 'title', 'author', 'editor', 'thumbnail', 'revisions', 'comments', 'buddypress-activity' ),
'taxonomies' => array('category', 'post_tag', 'project_category'),
'bp_activity' => array(
'action_id' => 'new_ignition_product',
'comment_action_id' => 'new_ignition_product_comment',
)
)
);
}
