By Christopher caruk on Wednesday, 15 October 2014
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Hello Mohdyasseribz,

This is a repost as per your request. Apologies if there has already been some work done in this area that I am unaware of. I am coming back to this project after having been working on other things.

I need to provide my EasySocial groups with their own EasyDiscuss pool of questions / discussion-threads.

EasyDiscuss categories can be assigned (secured) to Joomla Groups / Users so we have been trying to synchronize EasySocial groups and Joomla groups so that:

* when someone joins an EasySocial group they are automatically assigned to a Joomla group
* when someone is assigned to a Joomla group they are automatically added to an EasySocial group.
* when an EasySocial group is added we add a Joomla group (under a specific branch)
* when a group is added to Joomla (under a specific branch) we add a group to EasySocial.

Secondarily we would like to show a users discussions within his profile page but I think that we can do this with the EasyDiscuss app.

Unfortunately this is proving very difficult to accomplish. It would be much easier if EasyDiscuss categories could be assigned directly to EasySocial groups.

Does that help make it clearer?

Thanks
Chris
Hello Christopher,

Kindly please find the response to your inquiries below:


Yes. It does, but there are more features in EasyDiscuss. Our users are used to using it and we have literally tens of thousands of existing posts that we would have to try to move to EasySocial. So unless the one in EasySocial has all the same features, looks the same and there is a way to migrate the discussions in EasySocial are not really an option for us.

Noted, but unfortunately right now there's no way to integrate EasyDiscuss discussions on an EasySocial group right now


Yes... hence my question... and I take it from your comment that this is not something that is coming soon... which leads me back to needing to find a way to sync EasySocial groups and Joomla groups / memberships so that users who are in EasySocial groups have access to related EasyDiscuss threads.

We do provide customizations and if you are inclined to get a customization done, kindly please do write to us at https://crm.stackideas.com and submit a new ticket under the Customizations area
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Thursday, 16 October 2014 00:46
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Hello Christopher,

1. I need to provide my EasySocial groups with their own EasyDiscuss pool of questions / discussion-threads.
>> I am sorry but I can't understand your issue here. I believe EasySocial group already have discussion feature for them to use. Here my screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/PiVG4khYgGSo .

2. When someone joins an EasySocial group they are automatically assigned to a Joomla group
3. When someone is assigned to a Joomla group they are automatically added to an EasySocial group.
4. When an EasySocial group is added we add a Joomla group (under a specific branch)
5. When a group is added to Joomla (under a specific branch) we add a group to EasySocial.
>> I believe this cannot be done since EasySocial group and Joomla group are 2 different thing. Joomla group is a user group, which equivalent to profile types in EasySocial, while EasySocial group is a social group.

6. We would like to show a users discussions within his profile page but I think that we can do this with the EasyDiscuss app.
>> I'm not sure what do you mean by "to show a user discussions within his profile page" because we do have app filter - Discussion at the left sidebar. Here my screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/wqlalumy .

7. Unfortunately this is proving very difficult to accomplish. It would be much easier if EasyDiscuss categories could be assigned directly to EasySocial groups.
>> I am sorry but I believe this cannot be done in the current system.

If you have anymore question, please don't hesitate to ask us. Hope this will help.
Thanks.
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Wednesday, 15 October 2014 19:13
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Hello Mohdyasseribz

>> I am sorry but I can't understand your issue here. I believe EasySocial group already have discussion feature for them to use. Here my screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/PiVG4khYgGSo .

Yes. It does, but there are more features in EasyDiscuss. Our users are used to using it and we have literally tens of thousands of existing posts that we would have to try to move to EasySocial. So unless the one in EasySocial has all the same features, looks the same and there is a way to migrate the discussions in EasySocial are not really an option for us.

>> I'm not sure what do you mean by "to show a user discussions within his profile page" because we do have app filter - Discussion at the left sidebar.

Yes. That is the App that we would use.

>> I am sorry but I believe this cannot be done in the current system.

Yes... hence my question... and I take it from your comment that this is not something that is coming soon... which leads me back to needing to find a way to sync EasySocial groups and Joomla groups / memberships so that users who are in EasySocial groups have access to related EasyDiscuss threads.

Perhaps you might know of a developer who would help us with this? The person we have working on it now does not seem to be able to do this.

Kind Regards
Chris
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Wednesday, 15 October 2014 19:48
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OK... I've posted a ticket with a fairly detailed description of how it should work. I'de be happy to discuss/revise.

Thanks
Chris
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Thursday, 16 October 2014 01:43
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Hello Christopher,

Thanks for your update. I will mark this ticket as resolved.

Thanks again and have a wonderful day.
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Thursday, 16 October 2014 11:21
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