Private group forum subscriptions

[Dani]

Hey guys,

we use bbp private groups on an internal website. What happens to subscription-based notifications, if

Case 1: a user is not or
Case 2: not anymore member of a bbp-private-group.

Some background, I want to mass subscribe all users to all forums using WP Automator. If I do this also with my bbp-private-group enabled forums, the users are obviously subscribed to them as well.

• Do they get notifications, even if they are not in the corresponding group?
• Can I somehow “recalculate” who is in a group and remove forum subscriptions based on that?

I really appreciate your help.

I have searched the forum but was not able to find a similar case. If there is one, please point me to it.

• This topic was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Dani.

[Robin W]

Apologies for the delay in replying. One I will need to dig into the code to answer, so please allow me a few days, and if I haven’t come back, post again to remind me.

[Robin W]

ok, I’ve had a look.

The current code logic is as follows :

User who cannot see forums cannot subscribe to them, so won’t be subscribed

If users are subscribed to a previously ‘open’ forum, and this then has a private group associated with it, then a function is run on saving the forum to unsubscribe users who no longer have permission.

So logically after running the wp automator, if you go into each forum in the dashboard and edit and update, this function should run.

However you can test this fairly easily.

If you haven’t already got bbp-style-pack installed, then install and activate it. Then go to dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>subscription management and activate.

Then in dashboard>forums you will see a new column which shows how many people are subscribed to the forum, and if you click this, who they are.

So you could do the import, and then see how many are subscribed, then edit and update a forum and see if they subscribed changes to take out those who do not have subscriptions.