[BUG] Forum threads aren't working properly

[DOA]

With the latest version, all forums are under a parent node as set in admin, you can create a forum section for your group but when you create a thread it doesn't attach itself to the forum section for the group.


Add a new group forum



Now make a thread in it; but it's not going to post in the form section



the thread going someplace else (probably the parent node) because it's not attached to the group in any way.



What changed since 2.2?

 

[Brettflan]

There were changes made to how group discussion forums are handled internally. IIRC there are a couple of things you need to do.
First thing to understand is that the addon no longer creates real nodes for group discussion forums. Old existing threads and group discussion forums should basically still work the same, but new group discussion threads will all be technically created and internally assigned (as far as XenForo itself is concerned) to the "Archive" node you have set for group discussion forums in the addon's options, and no new real nodes will be created. Instead the addon will maintain pseudo-nodes for group discussion forums that it tracks internally. It does handle permissions to view different threads based on group membership and all that just fine as far as I can tell, and you'd otherwise probably never realize it's no longer creating and using real nodes.

And it looks the same on the frontend... mostly. Slightly different, slightly worse than before. As per my thread here:

[BUG] Thread 'Some Group Discussion Forum issues in Social Groups 4.0.4, XenForo 2.3.6'

Feb 14, 2025

These are apart from the other issues with upgrading from an older version of the addon and needing to switch existing forum nodes over to the new node type, or primarily setting up a good individual node as the Archive node where all the new group discussion posts are now actually stored instead of separately created real nodes. Interesting approach, I suppose it cuts down on the potential bloat of loads of real forum nodes added by groups.

Anyway, on to the issues I've noticed.

1. Stickied threads in group discussion forums are not shown properly stickied to the top of the thread...

• Brettflan
• Replies: 3
• Forum: Issues

So here's the thing you probably need to do. Make sure you have an appropriate node available which is set to the new "Group discussions" node type that is now a new thing, and have that node set to not display in the node list. Then choose that node as the "Archive" node in the group discussion options for this addon. It will then be used to store all new threads.
And it should basically just work from there on, from what I recall of making those changes a while back.

Note that if someone knows how to get to that new "Archive" node (through it being shown in the forum list or by a tweaked URL) they can indeed view the node, but only threads associated to groups they have appropriate access to will be shown in there.
All this threw me for a loop a bit at first, but digging at it I found no actual security flaws in how it works, so...

 

[DOA]

There were changes made to how group discussion forums are handled internally. IIRC there are a couple of things you need to do.
First thing to understand is that the addon no longer creates real nodes for group discussion forums. Old existing threads and group discussion forums should basically still work the same, but new group discussion threads will all be technically created and internally assigned (as far as XenForo itself is concerned) to the "Archive" node you have set for group discussion forums in the addon's options, and no new real nodes will be created. Instead the addon will maintain pseudo-nodes for group discussion forums that it tracks internally. It does handle permissions to view different threads based on group membership and all that just fine as far as I can tell, and you'd otherwise probably never realize it's no longer creating and using real nodes.

And it looks the same on the frontend... mostly. Slightly different, slightly worse than before. As per my thread here:

[BUG] Thread 'Some Group Discussion Forum issues in Social Groups 4.0.4, XenForo 2.3.6'

Feb 14, 2025

These are apart from the other issues with upgrading from an older version of the addon and needing to switch existing forum nodes over to the new node type, or primarily setting up a good individual node as the Archive node where all the new group discussion posts are now actually stored instead of separately created real nodes. Interesting approach, I suppose it cuts down on the potential bloat of loads of real forum nodes added by groups.

Anyway, on to the issues I've noticed.

1. Stickied threads in group discussion forums are not shown properly stickied to the top of the thread...

• Brettflan
• Replies: 3
• Forum: Issues

So here's the thing you probably need to do. Make sure you have an appropriate node available which is set to the new "Group discussions" node type that is now a new thing, and have that node set to not display in the node list. Then choose that node as the "Archive" node in the group discussion options for this addon. It will then be used to store all new threads.
And it should basically just work from there on, from what I recall of making those changes a while back.

Note that if someone knows how to get to that new "Archive" node (through it being shown in the forum list or by a tweaked URL) they can indeed view the node, but only threads associated to groups they have appropriate access to will be shown in there.
All this threw me for a loop a bit at first, but digging at it I found no actual security flaws in how it works, so...

BrettflanIs there supposed to be a "group discussions" forum selection because I don't have one

 

[DOA]

Yeah just confirming on a test install it works fine but somehow with updates from older xf2.2 version to 4.09 on xf2.3 the node option is completely missing somehow, mines just a general discussion forum setting.

 

[Brettflan]

I didn't run into that problem myself. You might try doing a Rebuild of the addon to see if that fixes it, if you haven't already.

Otherwise, if Truonglv is around, he might have some idea of how to fix it.

 

[DOA]

I didn't run into that problem myself. You might try doing a Rebuild of the addon to see if that fixes it, if you haven't already.

Otherwise, if Truonglv is around, he might have some idea of how to fix it.

BrettflanYeah I've tried rebuilding, without success. As I've updated from a much older version on 2.2 straight to the latest for 2.3 I'd imagine something in the install either missed or broke it. I'll give some more time here for a reply.