https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/favicon.ico2012-02-09T00:50:43ZCUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking SystemCUNY Academic Commons - Feature #1624: Group's announcements disappear when group privacy changedhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/1624?journal_id=59182012-02-09T00:50:43ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul><li><strong>Target version</strong> changed from <i>1.3.6</i> to <i>1.3.7</i></li></ul> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #1624: Group's announcements disappear when group privacy changedhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/1624?journal_id=60492012-02-21T21:00:43ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul><li><strong>Target version</strong> changed from <i>1.3.7</i> to <i>1.3.8</i></li></ul> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #1624: Group's announcements disappear when group privacy changedhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/1624?journal_id=61012012-02-24T00:31:50ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul><li><strong>Tracker</strong> changed from <i>Bug</i> to <i>Feature</i></li><li><strong>Status</strong> changed from <i>Assigned</i> to <i>Reporter Feedback</i></li><li><strong>Target version</strong> changed from <i>1.3.8</i> to <i>Future release</i></li></ul><p>I would say this is a feature, albeit an unintended one. There's a column in the activity table called hide_sitewide. Activity items in private and hidden groups are marked as hide_sitewide = 1. When the group is made public, they remain hide_sitewide = 1. Meanwhile, when activity items are queried in a public group, hide_sitewide = 1 is not queried for (for a number of reasons having to do with the way public groups are listed sitewide).</p>
<p>For that reason, I'm going to move this to Future Release and relist it as a feature request.</p>
<p>I'm happy to just leave it as is, ie to inherit BP's default behavior, which is to say I'm in favor of closing the ticket altogether. If you really think it should be changed, though, please give me a sense of what you would like in its place.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #1624: Group's announcements disappear when group privacy changedhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/1624?journal_id=61902012-02-29T06:30:32ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<ul></ul><p>I guess that the open question for me is whether there should be some kind of warning to users that alerts them to the fact that announcements will be lost when they change the settings from private to public. If there is going to be a loss of data, it seems like users should be informed before making the switch, no?</p>
<p>Otherwise, I'm fine with closing the ticket.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #1624: Group's announcements disappear when group privacy changedhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/1624?journal_id=61912012-02-29T12:07:18ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul></ul><p>See also <a class="external" href="http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3463">http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3463</a></p>
<p>Note that data is not lost in the sense that it's erased. It just becomes inaccessible. (Functionally the same from the users point of view, but a bit less dire.)</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #1624: Group's announcements disappear when group privacy changedhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/1624?journal_id=61922012-02-29T14:31:01ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<ul><li><strong>Status</strong> changed from <i>Reporter Feedback</i> to <i>Rejected</i></li></ul><p>That's very good to know. So, if there was an alert of some kind, it would just say that the announcements would be inaccessible as long as the group remained public.</p>
<p>I have to to say that on the level of functionality, that does make sense to me. Maybe the easy thing to do, for now, is to document this functionality in our FAQ and on the Codex so that, at the least, we can point people to it. I'll open up a separate ticket for that.</p>