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Hello Lars,

Ah, I think that GroupJive site is pretty old and hasn't been updated but if you take a look at http://joomlapolis.com , they have their own repository for GroupJive.

I see the errors here:
http://www.groupjive.org/groupjive-mainmenu-39

Hello Lars,

I think Community Builder team has actually revived the product By the way, where are you getting these errors? As far as I recalled, I installed an older version (ops). I've updated it to the latest version now.

I thought Group jive was long gone. On the demo page there is an error, not a good sign.
Sounds interesting with the ACL, but I am still on Joomla 1.5. I will be buying ED soon, I think :-)

Hello Lars,

Ouch, sorry to hear that. Not too sure what has been done on their groups, it's been a while since I played around with JomSocial

Okay, let me get this right. So you basically want to use a forum instead and from what I see here, you can actually take control for this with the user groups on Joomla 1.7 (Not sure if JomSocial has changed the way of their groups behavior) but basically, what you can do is to create user groups in Joomla, and assign the users into the groups (Purely from the core users functionality in Joomla). Then, assign the groups into the specific categories that you want them to be contributing in.

Have you heard of GroupJive? I am actually given the task to integrate EasyDiscuss with GroupJive but haven't really been playing through it yet. It's a group functionality which integrates with Community Builder, not sure about JomSocial though.

Hi Mark
Its both. Groups are pretty much crap when it comes to discussions so its both usability and functionality. the discussions itself is awfull and in terms of usability its very hard for users to navigate back and forth in group discussions. I was happy when I read this about version 2.4:
http://www.jomsocial.com/blog/reimagining-content-distribution-in-social-fabric.html

However, nothing was introduced and they even managed to make the discussions harder to get to, by putting them in a tab. So, i have given up on the discussions and thereby also the groups. I did consider ways to replace the discussions but the groups would still suck, so I am going for a more traditional forum instead

Hello Lars,

The profile integrations in EasyDiscuss 2 will actually link all names into JomSocial's profile instead of it's own when you configure it to use avatars from JomSocial

As for the groups, would you mind letting me know what sort of work around that you are currently looking at to replace the discussions in the groups? Is it the functionality or the usability?

That could be good, but I am fed up with the groups in Jomsocial and broken promises by the dev's regarding groups, so I am going "old school" with a forum instead of groups, as the main problems with the groups would need more work than a plugin, I am afraid.

So, back to the question about profile integration :-)

Hey Lars,

We actually currently working on a plugin that integrates EasyDiscuss with Jomsocial groups. We're expecting it after the release of EasyDiscuss 2