Hi @evillizard

1. Please do not use comma. Also, why do you need to set it to 30000000. Do you know the value is for 57 years duration?

If you want to test it set a smaller time? It works. Let me assist you with other configuration to show how it works.

Now for your questions:

This No. of Friends & Friendship Request Sent & Received
https://i.postimg.cc/kggWrLsK/msg-3-not-work.png

i dunno but doesnt it mean ..if a user sends.. then the friendship count would automaticcally increase by 1 friend?

No. Unless a user confirms the friendship, the count is not increased. That’s why you have the option to include requests in the count.

basically want to speed adding of the new recruits up .. i.e one the recruiter(the one who invited) sends friend request ..the friends count would automatically increase … wether or not the reciever of the request chooses to accept the request or not .. – since the friendship is already limited..then no need to wait for acceptance of requests.

Sorry, you are mistaken about this plugin then. It does not automatically confirm friends. The involved user need to confirm their friendship as normal. The plugin restricts.

It is your choice to use the friends count or the friends count+request count as restriction.

Please allow me to look a bit more about your situation and post back in the evening.

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi there,
Happy New Year.

1. In your case, since you only need to limit the number of requests a person can send, Please only enable “Restrict who can add friend?” and disable all other settings.

We only want to restrict request sending.

Now, You can put this in bp-custom.php

/**
 * Restrict sending request.
 *
 * @param bool $is_valid is valid request.
 * @param int $user_id sender user.
 *
 * @return bool
 */
function buddydev_custom_restrict_sending_friendship_request( $is_valid, $user_id ) {

	// If a user has these many friends, they won't be able to send new request.
	$limit_on_friends_count = 1;

	// If a user has specified number of friends, can not send new request.
	if ( friends_get_friend_count_for_user( $user_id ) >= $limit_on_friends_count ) {
		return false;
	}

	// for sent request count.
	global $wpdb;
	$bp = buddypress();

	$sent_count = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT COUNT('*') FROM {$bp->friends->table_name} WHERE initiator_user_id = %d", $user_id ) );

	// this is the maximum number of request a user can send
	// it includes accepted friendship(sent by the user too).
	$allowed_request_count = 1;// change it if you need.
	if ( $sent_count >= $allowed_request_count ) {
		return false;
	}

	return $is_valid;
}

add_filter( 'bpf_restrictions_user_is_valid_sender', 'buddydev_custom_restrict_sending_friendship_request', 10, 2 );

This will solve your issue of the restriction and you will not need to make auto friends. Please update the values as you need.

By default, BuddyPress does not list sent friendship request. We implemented in our theme(Community Builder) but most other theme won’t have this.

We are going to release CB2 in next 1-2 week(it has been going on a overhaul for months) and we are putting a free version for our members too. You can give it a try and see if it suits you then.

Thank you
Brajesh