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@sbrajesh
I may have missed or forgotten something, but @mentions are not working in my GF install. My group forums have been merged with global forums. Posting an @mention from a group forum works, but from the same forum in GF, it does not. Nor does it work from any subforum in GF.
Any ideas on this one?
+1 on getting this working. For me this would be an essential tool for gf
You both are right. The @mention is not working in the global forum. I will put some code to make it happen for you today/tomorrow.
Did you get a chance to look at this Brajesh?
Hi Patrick, Saunt
Please put this in your bp-custom.php or functions.php
add_filter( 'gf_forum_topic_text_before_save', 'bp_activity_at_name_filter' );
add_filter( 'gf_forum_post_text_before_save', 'bp_activity_at_name_filter' );I hope this should work. Please test and let me know.
I put it in bp-custom.php the links lit up. I'll report back when I see that notifications are going through to the receiving user. @patrick are seeing the notes get sent through, or just just the links appear?
UPDATE
There's a useful workaround here: http://buddydev.com/forums/topic/at-mention-notification#post-6799 written by... guess who?
The code in the post above creates a new item in the main menu, "New Mentions", only if new @mentions have been posted. This works even if the mention has been posted from elsewhere than GF; in an update, for example. Oh yeah... emails are sent too :-)
Great work @sbrajesh !
Thanks for the heads up Patrick :)
I implemented the fix you mentioned @Patrick and its good, but not great. It looks and feels more like a workaround temporary fix than a proper one. Brajesh, I know you are very busy, but could you take another look at this since the recommended fix is not a streamlined one?
I have two questions. What does it mean to merge the group and global forums? I'd prefer that forums that just show up in one place.
Secondly, should I include the snippet above in this thread, AND the snippet from http://buddydev.com/forums/topic/at-mention-notification#post-6799 in my bp-custom.php?
@Saunt,
As far as I remember, the problem with @mention count is, it will link correctly, if it has an associated activity itrem. I just tested that by disabling the activity posting for Group forum. It will not show up under the @mention of user's profile.
If you want that, just enable the activity posting in global forum settings and it will work.
@T.J.
1. merging allow you to keep the forums in group and also have separate forums. To be honest, the integration is buggy at the moment for global forum with group forum.
2. yes and yes. you can keep them in functions.php of your theme or bp-custom.php, both will work.
I think I found the instructions:
http://buddydev.com/plugins/global-forums/documentation/
How is the integration buggy?
Brajesh, it isn't the linking that is the problem (the linking works fine with the snippet you provided in the 6th post above), it is the fact that the notification doesn't get delivered (notifications in the BuddyBar highlighted and email sent). The workaround patrick linked to above creates an entirely new notification menu system that appears separately from the BuddyPress notifications (not the best fix from a UI point of view).
The GF notifications should be a seamless integration with the existing BP notification system.
Hi Saunt,
I will update the code tomorrow again to send email notification. That will enable the mail notification but would not show up in @mention tab(if you do not enable global forum post to activity). Is that ok ?
The email notification is the important one. Thanks
Hi Saunt,
Put this snippet in your functions.php or bp-custom.php
http://pastebin.com/7EaRA5Ri
Does it work ?
That's an impressive bit of code! (and it looks like it was a lot of work!) I've put it in and I'll report back in a day or two with the results. Thank you for taking the time to do this!
In adding this new snippet, should I remove either of the two mentioned above earlier in this thread?
Hi T.J.
you can use all the codes. If you want, you can skip the code from the other topic to show the @mentions
@Saunt,
Please do let me know, as i did not test it on a live server. I had taken some code from the how bp handles activity mentions and mixed with some of my own to make it work :)
@sbrajesh
Hi Brajesh! I just tested the new code in bp-custom on both single and multisite live installs.
The "new mention" alert does not show in the "Notifications" menu item, nor does it appear in the user profile activity subnav... should it?
However, it DOES appear in the main activity subnav AND emails are sent.
Hurray! :-)
PS - post to activity is, of course, enabled.
Hi Joey,
is other notification email working. Let us say, is the notification email working for the activity comment ?
@Patrick,
I am sorry for the trouble, please allow me to post an answer by Monday. It should show up in the notification area of the activity posting is active.
Yes absolutely. I re-tested several times. @mentions in the status updates go immediately to email.
In fact, I added the other codes above so that mentions now show up on the dashboard and the "@username" link is now showing up too.
If you want to take a look, I pasted my function.php code to pastebin:
http://pastebin.com/dGJ27C7D
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