CUNY Academic Commons

Hmmm. I see the forum both when logged in through my admin account and through the teststudent account. I imagine your bbpress permissions where somehow mangled?

Hi Boone,

Apparently, this is happening for other users. We just received the following report:

I created a new group yesterday--The GC Running Group--and indicated in the group settings that I wanted to have a forum, but currently on the forum page I get three notices: "This forum is empty," "Oh bother! No topics were found here!" and "You cannot create new topics." I tried to uncheck and recheck the enable forum setting, but I have not seen a change in the forum notices and I still cannot create a new topic. I feel like I must be overlooking something, but after poking around a while, I can't figure it out!

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Submitted from: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/running/forum/

I'm not 100% sure what's happening here. At some point, I may have disabled the bbPress-auto-role feature, because it appears (yet again) like it's the source of various lost-permission bugs around the Commons. It looks like this config change might be what's causing the forum problem described in this ticket. I thought I'd then try to work around the hardcoded "Participant" requirement of bbPress, but after a few hours of investigation, I don't know how to do it - bbPress is doing something that I don't understand. So, I've reenabled the auto-role feature, and group forums are now accessible in the same way as before.