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Bug #239

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Forum Post Error

Added by Matt Gold almost 14 years ago. Updated almost 14 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority name:
Normal
Assignee:
Boone Gorges
Category name:
BuddyPress (misc)
Target version:
-
Start date:
2010-05-12
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% Done:

0%

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Description

Just tried to post to the forum in the hidden group here: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/testing-testing-group and received the following error:

There was an error when creating the topic

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Updated by Boone Gorges almost 14 years ago

When did you create that group?

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Updated by Matt Gold almost 14 years ago

no idea

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Updated by Boone Gorges almost 14 years ago

  • Status changed from Assigned to Resolved

I've experienced this problem here and there as well, always with test groups.

The reason is that the forum_id is associated with the group in the groupmeta table, but the forum itself does not exist. Not sure why this is the case, but I can hypothesize that during some BP upgrade in the past (mostly likely the one corresponding to BP 1.0 -> BP 1.1) the BP-internal bbPress upgrade script decided not to copy over any forums that were empty, ie that didn't have any topics associated with them. Yet somehow the forum_id remains in the db.

The solution to the problem, on a group-by-group basis, is to remove the groupmeta field that stores the forum_id, and then to toggle the group discussion forum off and on. In particular, when you turn it back on, BP automatically creates the missing forum.

I have done this with your testing testing group. If the problem arises in the future with particular groups, please open a ticket specific to that group.

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