[HansRuedi Keller]

The CBOX press release states  “Collaborative document creation and file sharing”.

File sharing? Bebop or?…
…what does that mean re BP or plugin functionality?

[Scott Voth]

Hi – collaborative document creation and sharing refers to both the sitewide wiki where all members can work on documents together, as well as “Docs” which are created within groups, and whose visibility and edit setting are quite granular.   Docs is kind of like a private wiki.  (This document sharing functionality is enabled via BuddyPress Docs Wiki and BuddyPress Docs)

The Bebop plugin is also a really neat way to aggregate resources and share them.  Follow this link for more information about Bebop.

Hope this helps.  Thanks.

[Amelia Manders]

In the documentation there is a picture of the sidebar that shows a menu item for “Files”.  I’ve download commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/buddypress-group-documents.zip, but it does not have the folder structure that I see on CAC.  Our users are asking for this type of file repository.   Is there any chance this will be included in the commons or that you guys can share the code used to create the folders?

[HansRuedi Keller]

Hi Scott. Thanks for your reply, but you didn’t answer my question. I’m a long time user of BP, supplied german translations for BP Docs and Bebop (as one of the first using Bebop).

My answer is: is there any plan to have “file sharing” integrated in CBOX? A long time ago there was a plugin called “BP Group Documents” by Peter Anselmo. It’s no longer in the repo, not supported and Peter isn’t responding to emails or other communication. A lot of people in the BP community are asking for that kind of functionality.

While having conversations with Dale Mckeown (the Bebop dev) the idea came up to have another type of “Bebop extension”, not member- but group-related. The plugin would have extensions not for YouTube, Slideshare or Twitter etc. but for online storage like Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, Wuala or Amazon Cloud Drive. At the moment not everybody is willing to leave the Word-ecosystem – or they have existing docs to share. Dale would eventually be willing to code such a plugin, but now that he’s Bebop project at Lincoln university has finished, it’s a question of finding foundation. That’s the whole story and that’s the reason for me to ask…

 

[HansRuedi Keller]

Oh My God – sometimes it’s not that easy with a foreign language… Not «My answer is» – My question is… Sorry. 😉

PS: where are the links in the cbox theme to edit or delete an older forum post?

 

[Scott Voth]

Hi – It seems like this is a hot topic, and people are anxious for “File Upload” functionality.  I know on the CUNY Academic Commons, we have this functionality – maybe @cbox_admin can provide technical details, future plans on including it with CBOX, and where to go for the source code we use in the interim.   I’m really not sure.

In terms of editing forum posts – good question.  As I recall – when you enter a post you have some stretch of time to edit what you’ve posted.  I think you can also delete it too, but would have to test.  But after that time, I think only the admin of the group can edit/delete forum posts.  I think you see these hyperlinks above the text, but below the title, and you can rollover them to highlight.  I’ll have to test.

[Daniel Morton]

I have found this to work well and give the functionality that you are asking for:BP group documents

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