CUNY Academic Commons

Just confirmed that the "normal" process of syncing (unchecking "enable group blog" from group interface, saving, rechecking checkbox) isn't working.

what's strange is that the user listing on the blog dashboard shows a total of 27 members, which makes sense that there are 27 members in the group. BUT, when you look at the number of members by role, it adds up to 21, not 27.

I'm wondering whether this might be due, perhaps, so some kind of limit placed on the number of people who can be added to a blog?

I can add them manually, but this seems like a bug, so we should check it out.

Another note: some members of the group who are not listed as users on the blog have member profiles that, weirdly, show membership in the blog.

Example:

This member: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/scheng/blogs/ shows the Living Lab blog in her profile, but she's not actually listed among its users in the dashboard of the blog.

Also, I meant to point out that the bold-faced note at the bottom of http://help.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/09/01/how-to-let-new-members-of-your-group-post-to-the-group-blog/ is no longer correct. That was a bug that should have been fixed in Commons 1.1.9. See http://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/show/546. Please verify, and update the codex accordingly.

Matt, the issue of BP member blog lists being out of sync is separate from this one. Please open another ticket.

I'm confused -- the lists being out of sync was the bug reported in the ticket. What is the other issue you're thinking is the main subject here? The instructions on how to sync group and blog? If so, I'd say that that's what should go in a separate ticket.

The list of blogs that appear under a user's profile is, contrary to what you might think, totally independent of a user's blog permissions. The problem being reported in this ticket is, I presume, that group members do not actually have permission to post on the group blog, not that the group blog isn't appearing at commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/[member-name]/blogs The former is, I'm suggesting, not a bug. The latter is a bug, but separate from this one.

Never mind though, I'll open it myself.

Okay -- thanks. The main bug I meant to report here is that our established methods of syncing group/blog memberships isn't working in this case. I did indeed try toggling 'Enable blog member posting', with unsuccessful results. Please let me know whether you have better luck.

I take your point about the blog listing in a member's profile, but what still strikes me as strange is the indication of 27 users in the blog dashboard while only having 21 listed.

I take your point about the blog listing in a member's profile, but what still strikes me as strange is the indication of 27 users in the blog dashboard while only having 21 listed.

Can you explain what that means?

I did indeed try toggling 'Enable blog member posting', with unsuccessful results. Please let me know whether you have better luck.

Works for me. After rechecking, you'll find that you have to reset the preferred roles for group members/mods/admins. That's the part that actually triggers the resync.

Here's what's strange: now the blog dashboard shows 32 total users but still only lists 21. When you check the blog authors list from the BP Admin bar, it shows 28.

To explain a bit and also point out how I can see there's something strange:

In Users, I have All (33), Administrators (4) Authors (13) Subscribers (4).

That clearly doesn't add up. Although the number listed in All has changed, the other three numbers haven't, nor has the list of users.

When I search for a user on that page, I get their avatar and info if and only if they are one of the users listed on the page. When I search for someone I believe to be in that missing group, I get no search results, or, rather, nothing shows up between the header and footer of the search results--there is no space even between the header and footer. When I search for someone I know won't be there, it tells me in a red/pink box that "No matching users were found!" Clearly there are users that are invisible!

jrr

Great work, Boone -- thank you.