Mutual Groups & friends Status Notification Feature

[gamicord]

1.) Having Status Report of Friends Activities

I just started a BuddyPress website, and I can see how far BuddyPress has come. I want to suggest enhancement to the BuddyPress Notification Feature.

I am borrowing inspiration from the Facebook Status Feature-- where it happens in such a way that I can get notified of every activity that my friends do?

Can you Please do the same thing in BuddyPress? Can you Please add this Status Notification Feature?

So that I get notified of happenings around my friends?

2.) Mutual Groups on Profile Details
Can we have a Feature where if I click on a User, I can see the Groups that we have in Common?

This happens on WhatsApp as we can see here--https://prntscr.com/1qskiz4

Can we have the same thing on BuddyPress?

[imath]

Hi we've been discussing during our development meeting about the introduction of a new Relationship API which could help us create a follow component. This would probably help you to have 1. @sbrajesh can you confirm?

About 2, @dcavins what are you thoughts about it?

[dcavins]

Hi @imath,

Regarding point 2, it would be easy to do in BP core or in a plugin. This code sketch should generate the loop of groups that are shared:

<?php
$args = array(
        'is_admin' => null,
        'is_mod'   => null,
);
$displayed_user_groups    = bp_get_user_groups( bp_displayed_user_id(), $args );
$displayed_user_group_ids = array_keys( $displayed_user_groups );

// Loop through groups:
$loop_args = array(
        'user_id'     => bp_loggedin_user_id(),
        'include'     => $displayed_user_group_ids ? $displayed_user_group_ids : array(),
        'show_hidden' => true, // Since we're limiting to the logged-in user's groups, this is safe.
);
bp_has_groups( $loop_args );

I can create a patch to include this in core if that's of interest. If not, it would be doable in a plugin.

[imath]

Hi @dcavins

Thanks for your reply and for looking into it. Let's try this for 10.0.0 :

Displayed user's Group primary nav > no more count
3 new secondary nav :

• All (count)
• Common (count)
• Different (count)

PS: we could probably do the same for Friends to develop 'becoming a friend of my friend's friend...) & blogs...

[shawfactor]

1. Why would we want the mutual group functionslity in core (some people might want to disable it btw). it looks like it is a typical plugin feature

2. What is the relationships API, is there more info? I ask as the activity table in a sense can already function as a relationships api. IE user_id, item_id, and secondary_item_id. The only missing piece is the site_id to allow relationships that may have site specific context E.G. user_1 tagged user _2 in post number 10 on site number 5.

Or is the new proposed api more focused on content visibility/subscription to or following content or users?