Hi Steve,
I don't seem to understand your issue. Do you mean that you want to include the Group Discussion stream in the dashboard stream of EasySocial, not just in the group page?http://take.ms/WQzVf

Hi Raymond, sorry for the delay getting back to you mate.

What my users have asked for is that they can log in and see all replies to discussions on a single page. That would include discussions that are part of groups and events.

For example. Here is our base forum: http://theendzone.co/forum. I've set this up to go to recent posts by default.

But here is a set of discussions taking place within a group, that don't show up in the listings. http://theendzone.co/groups/item/8-wbbl/173-easydiscuss.html

Any ideas on how to make them appear?

Hi Steve,
For some reason, I could not access your forums page(Error decoding JSON data: Syntax error)

Is this what you mean by group discussions showing up in EasyDiscuss groups tab?
http://take.ms/9SdGS

If yes, can you provide me your backend and ftp access at http://stackideas.com/dashboard/site so I can help you check this out? Thanks.

Thanks for the heads up on the JSON issue Raymond. Thanks to your alert I was able to get it fixed!

Yes, and no - you're close!

What I would like is:

1) that the content of the groups tab appears beneath the content of the forums tab. As you have shown it is *perfect*. It just needs to appear beneath the existing categories on the forums tab

2) that group posts are included in the recent tab

Very much appreciate your help!

(Also if the solution can survive updates, that would be ideal!)

Hey Steve,

I am sorry for the delay of this reply,

Thanks for the heads up on the JSON issue Raymond. Thanks to your alert I was able to get it fixed!

Thank for getting back to us that issue resolved.

What I would like is:

1) that the content of the groups tab appears beneath the content of the forums tab. As you have shown it is *perfect*. It just needs to appear beneath the existing categories on the forums tab

2) that group posts are included in the recent tab

Very much appreciate your help!

The reason why we decide do not include those discussion post from Easysocial group in recent tab is because public user do not have the permission to access these discussion post created from Easysocial group, unless that is registered user or group member. so those discussion will not appear on the recent tab by default.

If you really want those discussion post show on the recent tab, I can provide you some hack code but this file you have to backup every time when you update to next release version of Easydiscuss.

Hi Arlex, thanks for the reply mate.

The reason why we decide do not include those discussion post from Easysocial group in recent tab is because public user do not have the permission to access these discussion post created from Easysocial group, unless that is registered user or group member. so those discussion will not appear on the recent tab by default.

I assume this is just for recents? I'd like to include the 'groups' tab content in the 'forums' page - below the existing content. Would that be affected too? Does the current groups tab show content from groups the viewer is not part of?

Just checking, I get a 404 when logged out trying to view the groups tab. That's not ideal, I assume it's a bug.

Hey Steve,

You're welcome.

Just checking, I get a 404 when logged out trying to view the groups tab. That's not ideal, I assume it's a bug.

Yes, it should do the redirection after logout from the group tab page, I've applied some fix in this file -> JoomlaFolder\components\com_easydiscuss\views\groups\view.html.php , it should work fine now.

I assume this is just for recents? I'd like to include the 'groups' tab content in the 'forums' page - below the existing content. Would that be affected too? Does the current groups tab show content from groups the viewer is not part of?

Nope, actually this behaviour already implemented when we release Easydiscuss 4 stable version last time.
Unfortunately that was not possible to show the group tab content into 'forums' page.
Regarding the group tab page, only registered user and groups member can able to access it.

Thanks for the fix Arlex - hopefully that makes it into the next version too

I'm really, really keen on getting that group discussions section into the forums page (or at least, my members are very vocally keen that I do).

Please help me understand - why is it not possible? Could I perhaps do it through another way, maybe a module? Perhaps a html module on the page?

Hello Steve,

The main concern about merging the "Groups" and the "Forums" is the privacy. Posts created for EasySocial has a different privacy and it would be extremely slow for your forums page.

Thanks Mark.

What Im looking for is the content on the groups tab to appear directly below the contents of the forums tab - not to integrate. So the only groups that would appear for a user are those that theyre a member of.

I'm not sure how the privacy thing plays out, I guess it feels so straightforward to write that I'm very much struggling with the idea that its impossible! Basically everything below the header on the groups tab exactly as it currently works -> the bottom of the forums tab.

Surely doable?

Hm, I am a little lost here Steve. The forums link retrieves the data in a different way than the groups link. What you are saying is that you want what is already there on the forums link but on top of that display the group posts, but that is where all the complication gets.

Not on top; below.

I understand that you're saying it gets complicated - but Id appreciate more detail on how please? If I'm to find a way to do it then Id really benefit from understanding why just copying and pasting the code doesn't work. I assume its because the same term is used as the output of two separate queries?

Given there's no overlap in the content of the two pages I'm just not seeing the complexity. Could I ask you to please be more granular in describing the issue? Ideally with reference to the code. It would help a lot!

Thanks

Steve

Hello Steve,

It's not just as copy / pasting the codes as you mentioned because you need to merge the SQL queries and there are template hacks that you need to perform as well. Unfortunately our support does not cover customization requests.

If you want to hack this, you need to look into two different files,

View files are responsible to push datasets to the theme files

/components/com_easydiscuss/views/forums/view.html.php
/components/com_easydiscuss/views/groups/view.html.php


Theme files:

/components/com_easydiscuss/themes/wireframe/forums/default.php