[BJWang]

Are you referring to where/how to enable this feature? BuddyPress Docs is enabled on a per-group basis.  It can be enabled/disabled via the group’s Admin tab. See attached screen shot.

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[BJWang]

I am here and have been  following this topic. I, too, would like to see a table of content too, something similar to the one on CUNY Commons.

@Scottvoth, do you know if this is in the developer’s pipeline?

[BJWang]

@Nick_Nielsen

A simpler way of looking at this is that bbPress is for  site forums and BP for group discussion forums. The way BP supports group  forums is to bundle bbPress into its plugin. Over time  the standalone bbPress continue to evolve and improve  (currently at version 2.2.3) while the one within BP changed little.  This is why it is better to use the standalone bbPress plugin to power your group forums.  CBOX recommends this as well.

You will need to migrate your forums in order to switch from using the old bbPress that was bundled inside BP to use the standalone bbPress to manage your group forums.  All bbPress forums can be managed from the backend.

[BJWang]

Hi Charise,

Yes @Ray was able to get my site migrated and I also able to duplicate the migration process on my secondary development server.  I have since install CBOX on my development server and playing with the configurations.

A lot of the problems that I reported were a direct result of not using the correct parameters for the migration. I was either using the wrong database port or table prefix during Step 5 – Import Forums process. The import process does not report any problem and I assumed everything was OK. With that, I proceeded to do Step 6 – Repair bbPress 2 forum relationship,  and things just got worst going forward.  One way to confirm the forums have been imported is to pay attention during the repairing process, particularly the ‘Repair BuddyPress group-forum relationships’ — if you have 9 groups with discussion forums, then it should report  “Repairing BuddyPress group-forum relationships… Complete!  9 groups updated; 9 forums updated.”

If you don’t see the correct number of groups and forums at the end of the repair, then you should double check the parameters being used to import the forums and try again.
@Ray pointed out that bbPress generates a default URL for group forums (ie: http://www.sample.com/Forums/forum/default-forum/), so if you want to list just the group forums, create a custom link (Dashboard > Appearance > Menu)  with the default URL and add that to the menu.  (I was using a WordPress page to display group forums which does not work with bbPress forums. So if you have were using WordPress page to display group forums, delete that page and use the custom link).
Going forward, whenever you create a group with forum, you will need to go back to the group’s Admin tab, select Forum tab, and enable group forum again. This is a bbPress bug that is being addressed in 2.3.
Gook Luck. I hope this helps.

[BJWang]

BuddyPress GroupBlog requires multisite installation. Is your a multisite installation?

[BJWang]

@Nick_Nielsen, from your post, it sounds like you have not migrated your BuddyPress group discussion forums to bbPress forums.

Groups and group forums are managed from the front end only.  All bbPress supported forums(just site forums in your case) can be managed from the backend via Dashboard>Forums.  This is one of the reasons why it would be a good idea to migrate group discussion forums to bbPress forums.

To list your site forums on the front, create a page and write [bbp-forum-index] shortcode in the body of the page. (http://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/). Add this page to your menu. Now from the front end, click on the newly added menu tab to see all your site forums. 

[BJWang]

Hello Charise and Dave,

I also have problem migrating group forums to bbPress 2.2+. My problem is that after following the posted migration instruction, I no longer see the group forums nor the content within the forums on my site even though the data is in the database.

Charise, I am curious to see if you are able to see the group forums and their content intact after the migration. Looking forward to see your update to this topic.

Dave, when you did the repair, does the repair log indicate the correct number of groups being repaired? In my case, it reported 0 groups.

I am currently waiting to hear back from @Ray, he will be  testing out the migration procedure using  my site as the “sandbox” to see if he can duplicate the problem I have been seeing.

 

[BJWang]

I have been doing some testing on my laptop’s local server.  From my experiments, I noticed a group forum functional difference between Settings and Forum, accessed via the group’s Admin tab. Admin>Settings should be use to controls group forums being managed by BP’s Discussion component; while Admin>Forum should be use to control group fourms being managed by bbPress.

Creating a group with discussion forum that uses BP’s Discussion component, then later disable/enabling the group’s forum using Admin>Forum CREATES HAVOC! Doing this would cause existing topic/replies in that group’s forum to become orphaned. Looking on the bright side, at lease these content still exist and are not lost.

I believed somewhere within the ‘migrating from old forums to bbPress2’ procedure, Admin>Forum may have been used to disable the group forum in order to migrate. This is my hunch and at this point, I have no idea how to fix it other than digging into the mySQL database and delete/modify some records. Of course, that may  cause even more HAVOCs! :<

 

[BJWang]

@ray, check your email. THANK YOU for looking into this.

[BJWang]

@Amelia_Manders and @Ray, I have the same exact problem. My site also uses has group forums (BP 1.6.3) and site forums(bbPress 2.2.3). Before installing CBOX, I migrated my group forums to bbPress2 forums using the guide from

http://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/

It was during testing that I found out when navigating to a group, the forum tab is there and all the group activities are displayed correctly; however,

clicking the form tab , a message ‘This forum is empty’
get error message ‘There was an error creating topic’, when trying to create a new topic

I believe this problem is caused by some conflicting conditions between bbPress and BP and not so much due to the migration instruction and CBOX ended up inheriting the problem. I have made two posting to BuddyPress.org’s support forum but have yet received any solutions.

http://buddypress.org/support/topic/group-discussion-forums-and-content-missing-after-bp-bb-forums-migration/
http://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-group-forum-now-shows-up-as-bbpress-forum/

Until this is resolved, I am reluctant to migrate to CBOX which is very frustrating and unfortunate.

 

[BJWang]

Hi Ray,

Thanks for the detail response. It was indeed helpful.

I have inherited a website that has WP single site installation.  My website could greatly benefit from group blogging and that was why I asked the question. Knowing the answer would help me  determine if I needed to change/upgrade my website to mulitsite first before attempting install CBOX. It would seem I do need to migrate to multisite first.

 

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