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  1. Strange. I seem to recall I had to use the upgrade button on the "groups" app to install the collab app, but I could be mistaken, it's been more than a month ago. I had a lot of apps I had to upgrade from 3.4.8, and at least a few of them required using the Upgrade button next to the app instead of the Install button.

    Have you tried uninstalling the collaboration app and reinstalling it via the upgrade button?

    __app_collab suggests to me a translation issue, is your ACP in English?

    I won't stand in for Kevin, but can you post the crash info that happens when you enable it? You're not running in developer mode, are you?

  2. I had this problem too. Seems that IPS4 thinks rsyvarth's Social Groups and Kevin Carwile's Group Collaboration share the same application ID.

    You can install GC as an upgrade to rsyvarth's Social Groups when converting from 3.x and it works fine, Kjell. Just use the dropdown next to the inactive "groups" app and pick Upgrade, then upload the tarball when prompted.

  3. 3 hours ago, Kevin Carwile said:

    1. Look on the member roles management page in the collab. Click the dropdown menu for any role group to choose bulk pm.

    Thanks, this was not intuitive at all. Hooray! The UI could certainly be better here.

     

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    2. Modify this to fit your needs. 

     

    I saw this, and how it's implemented earlier in this thread (meaning I'm not about to shell out $5 for it). I can intuit how it might be used to move an article as well as a topic. It's just unfortunate to me that this sort of workaround is required. It feels like a hack. Is it something that you can't easily support natively? I can live with it if I have to.

     

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    Not sure what you mean here...

    Meaning that IPS4 Content has multiple content databases in which you could create entries . Our site currently has three databases defined. Under ACP > Community > (select a category) > Pages tab, I only see two of those databases listed. The third is not present. I can't figure out how to get the collab to recognize this third IPS Content database. What criteria are used to select an IPS Content database for display in the ACP for Group Community category pages?

    I also noticed that any database entries created thru a collab, if the IPS Content category is set to create an forum post at the same time, will create that forum post in the (global) forum declared by the IPS Content category. There is no way to override this to, for instance, auto-create a forum post on a forum within that category. This seems to be a natural idea: someone in Collab A creates an article and wants to have the system auto-post a thread about her new article on a board within Collab A.

    I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you'll probably recommend a rules-based workaround for this as well - am I right?

    Any luck on the dev mode problem? It's really got me stuck in the water, trying to develop a modification to GC (as we discussed in our PM a couple of months ago).

  4. Hi again Kevin,

    While you're thinking about how to solve that one, we have two more requests.

    1. The old 3.x Social Groups application used to allow group admins the ability to Mass PM an entire collaboration, or specific ranks within that collaboration. Might this functionality surface someday in GC?
    2. Similar to the issue with moving posts between regular forum boards and Collab forum boards, I'm having trouble determining how to move an article from a Collab Article category to the standard IPS. I see the move/copy category for an entire category to ve moved from IPS -> Collab, but no way to move individual articles, and no way to do the reverse. As with forum boards before you implemented the "Show in forum index" option, I'm not seeing the article category show up in the main Database content category listing. Finally, it doesn't seem to allow me to pick which database the article is associated with, it's picked my converted 3.x "Articles" database and given no other choices.
  5. I receive another more serious error in that case, that suggests I need dev/ files for collab.

    On the "Front side":

     BadMethodCallException
    
    NO_TEMPLATE_FILE - .../applications/collab/dev/html/front/layouts/forumIndex.phtml  
    
    in file ...system/Theme/Dev/Template.php (line 88)
    
    				throw new \BadMethodCallException( 'NO_TEMPLATE_FILE - ' . $file );

    On the ACP/"Back Side", I'm able to log in, but it doesn't help much if I can't get onto the front side :(

  6. Hi Kevin,

    I'm trying to enable Developer Mode on my website. When the Group Collaboration app is enabled (v1.2.3) I get errors. If I disable GC in the ACP and then turn on dev mode, I'm able to work in dev mode. Enabling or disabling other apps I've installed on my website has no effect, it's definitely GC that's causing problems.

    Do I need to download dev mode files for Group Collaboration to work in dev mode as suggested by Invision Power, or is something else wrong? Where are the dev files for GC?

    Error when accessing the ACP:

     Whoops \ Exception \ ErrorException (E_NOTICE)
    
    Trying to get property of non-object 
    
    ...system/Session/Admin.php line 107
    
    			'session_member_name'		=> $this->member->name ?: '-',
    

    Error when accessing the "front side" (site itself):

     Whoops \ Exception \ ErrorException (E_NOTICE)
    
    Undefined index: data 
    
    ...system/Session/Front.php line 283
    
    
    		if ( $data !== $this->data['data'] or $this->data['member_id'] != $this->member->member_id )

     

  7. In addition, even with all collab categories locked down, the "Latest Collab" block still appears and includes all of the collabs that should be locked down, again with name, owner and avatar.

    Scratch that. After waiting for 30 minutes or so, the Latest Collabs block rebuilt itself without any of the content, and disappeared altogether. :)

    I still need a solution to prevent information appearing if you know the exact URL to a collab. I'm also still unclear on what "All Active Members" is vs. "Members" in collab forum perms.

  8. I'm running into a problem where non-logged in people (site "guests") can see content in forums in all collabs.

    I want to configure a collab so that all registered site members can read everything, whether they're members of the collab or not, but not non-logged in members.

    For that, do I want Guest access off, but "All Active Members" on? What is the difference between All Active Members and Members?

    I would also like to hide the fact that the collaboration itself is there for non-logged-in web users (e.g. GoogleBot) but I want them to be visible to logged-in members. Same thing - how do I fix this?

    [EDIT: ] I've gone to the permissions tab for the collab category and turn off guest access to the collab, but with an exact URL to the collab (https://sitename/gc/##-collabname/) you are still able to see the collab name, # of members, "Since" date, collab leader, and collab menu before the "That page does not exist" error displays. I'd like this not to appear at all if possible.

  9. I'm also looking at this as a replacement for our old IPC YouTube database and our 3.x Live Streams module (supporting Twitch, Hitbox, YouTube livestream, etc.). I think the only thing missing (and preventing me from buying this) is a way to get a feed of users who are live streaming now, which would require some sort of a scheduled task to update the database, as well as a filter to have only those items shown in a feed block on my homepage. Can you think of a way to implement this in your current framework?

    My alternative implementation would be to use IP.Content and some custom blocks plus my own Scheduled Task, which would probably work but wouldn't result in me buying your app ;)

  10. I don't really like "dogpiling" especially when there is a Like This button, but this is the biggest drawback for us. Ocean West hit right on the head why we want Group Collaboration: delegation of forum responsibility without having to set up lots of fine grained access restrictions on the ACP. This work gets harder and harder the more collaborations you have, and GC's model of letting collabs sort it out for themselves suits us just fine. But because visibility is limited (vis a vis the main Forum Board Index) it feels like they are getting "secondary" boards, and users may feel like second class citizens as a result.

    We're coming from Social Groups, where new forum boards do show up in the main forum index, in a special Social Groups board section. People will expect to see IPS4 GC forum listings there, and today they won't. Many of our users expect our website to be like "any other forum" and barely realize it has articles, galleries, etc. and only view the forum index to see what's going on. Now that it won't show the collaborations, it's going to lead to decreased engagement.

    One good point is that collaboration content does show up in the New Content Topics panel, so at least they can get exposed to it that way. If only the preview posts function for New Content from 3.x (the dropdown to view latest posts) would return! (Also, I'll be honest - we don't create new collaborations often, so the New Content > Collaborations section isn't useful for us.)

  11. There is a moderator permission on the moderators configuration form inside the ACP. Members -> Moderators -> {Edit moderator/group} -> Collab Management tab

    Enable the option: "Unrestricted by collab permissions ".

    This is perfect, thanks. You should enable this by default for the default Administrators group, if possible, along with turning everything on under Members > Moderators > Administrator group > Collab tab.

  12. @Police Community I feel your pain. As much as I've tried to lead our community away from the "main forum index" as the single page to look for new content, they still expect that to be the place that everything is collected. It's rather frustrating, but there it is.

    And since almost every community on our site is read-public, in the global "View New Content" page people have to wade thru new posts in subject areas they don't care about.

    A quick way to fix it might be a category that says "My Collaborations" on the New Content page. This way you can limit the view to just what you care about, and join/leave collaborations to affect whether they appear there. You'll still have the global setting if you want to read everything (like I do).

  13. Per-group badges was a customization I coded for rsyvarth's Social Groups. I'm working with Kevin in PMs to ensure his autoconversion of rsyvarth content will work for us. Once I'm sure it does, I am considering releasing an add-on mod for Group Collaboration. to give you per-group, per-rank forum badges. Would this be valuable to you? Here's a screenshot of this in action on our IPB3 rsyvarth Social Groups board:


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    I will admit it's a bit "busy" but our community likes the "fruit salad" approach to badges.

  14. Hm, I'm rather surprised there's no roster management. Social Groups has one, and it's fairly simple. You can invite people, remove people, adjust their forum rank, and add different ranks (beyond Guest, Member, Moderator, Admin). We used this to great effect: we added ranks for the hierarchy of our groups and used this to create forums within groups that were accessible by e.g. just the officers within the group. You also get the tabbed interface for a membership list. This is all doable from the GroupCP with no ACP access.

    Within collaborations there's always some sort of hierarchy - you generally need to give certain people more or less responsibility than others. Attaching a simple label to that, and driving things like forum badges and access permissions from that makes perfect sense to me in a very abstractable sense.

    I've attached 3 screenshots of how rsyvarth's Social Groups solves this problem.

    I thought Group Collaboration was basically a superset of rsyvarth's code. Does Group Collaboration not provide these features?

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    MWSnap 2015-04-29, 18_17_17.png

  15. Though I have been happy with rsyvarth's Social Groups app in 3.x, he's been slow to get plans announced for 4.x. As we have a well-established and large (few thousand member) active community, a migration option from Social Groups (we have 50+ of these) would be mandatory before we could consider moving to this solution. Is something on the drawing board? If so, care to take a guess at a timeline?

  16. Hi there,

    I just want to say thank you for rescuing our data and bringing it over to the Bing API.

    I found that the jQuery.post() call on LL104 of jq.membermap.js was failing on our site with a 405 (not permitted). Replacing this with a jQuery.get() has restored functionality for now. I'm not sure why this was a .post() but hope this helps!

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