Cb 2.0 and projectfork 4 pro user and access groups

I am building a free collaboration community catering to self sustainability and renewable energy for off grid communities and individuals or anyone wanting to try to live easier and healthier.
www.gridfree.ca

I am currently confused on the basic set up and structure of cb 2.0. I cant seem to get the full picture on how CB groupjive,blogs and articles category structure should be set up with user groups and access levels especially once you add projectfork.


1. lets say i have a category called energy , I would like to have the forum,blogs,and articles +projectfork categories "energy" associated with the group energy.

2.when a user makes a new article in "energy" only the article categories should be visible to choose its location(currently all categories in joomla are showing)?

3.choose where to show the content,example energy articles, profile page user1

what i am trying to achieve is, having the choice of a group to join, based on the categories of the site, homesteading,energy,growing,construction etc.

I would also like to have a designated page to each category which will have the categories different content(project,blogs,forum,articles etc)available in a single location in different positions.

I would also like projectfork to have the same main categories that are locked to registered members for changes, but will allow creation of a new project as project admin and allow them to use projectfork for there own personal projects set there own access levels, example,

mike wants to build a solar tractor, mike can go into projectfork energy category and make a project "solar tractor" mike would be admin to this "solar tractor" project only, mike can also choose weather his project is private or invite or open to registered members(site set up for registered to post,public to view). to start i would like project default to be public view. and allow "mike" to choose.

I would also like the project visible in someway in profile? if cb 2.0 plugin not out soon..

Currently installed joomla 3.3.6+All video share+kunena+uddell+cometchat+k2+jce editor (setup for private folder for each user) have not installed projectfork yet
CB 2.0.4 and majority of plugins available to professional members
except groupjive and profile book

My current user groups
Group Title

Public

|— Cb moderator group

|— Guest

|— Manager

|—|— Administrator

|— Registered

|—|— Author

|—|—|— Editor

|—|—|—|— Publisher

|— Super Users

Current Access Levels

Administrator
CB Moderator
Guest
Public
Registered
Special
Super Users

Current configuration of each access group

Access group CB Moderator
|— Cb moderator group
|— Super Users

Access Group Guest
|— Guest

Access group Public
|— Public

Access group Registered
|— Manager
|— Registered
|— Super Users

Currently this configuration works very well for CB 2.0.4 as far as i have tested

what i want to achieve is with projectfork,

1. each registered user can create there own project
2.each creator is the super user for his/her project.
3. each creator can choose weather project be for all registered users, or private (invite only),any registered user can join.
4. the viewing of the project category should only be visible depending on the project privacy setting chosen in step 3.
5.creator chooses access right for there own project, manager, super user,etc for his her own project only

My questions
1. what is the best way to set this up where it wont break CB 2.0 groups?
2.what is the function of allow create group for each project?
3. will enabling the create new groups function break CB 2.0 user and/or groups?
4.if projectfork creates groups how will Community Builder members get access?
5.anything i may be missing
6.do you add groups and access levels for projectfork in cb,joomla,or projectfork, or groupjive?

all my groups work as the should including the guest group, User are created in Community builder, same with registration etc, these are shut off in joomla, and set to Community Builder.

A few How too videos on CB 2.0 groups and access permissions are set up in joomla.
I followed the video how too, should be the same,

configure moderators and permissions



Joomla User Parameters and how to control them with the CB params field



Joomla Guest group and Guest view and how to make them work for you



I am a newbie, so if its really technical an idiot guide would be great, especially for any code work if needed.

thanks for all the new video tutorials

any and all help is greatly appreciated
thank you in advance

globalgridfree wrote: I am building a free collaboration community catering to self sustainability and renewable energy for off grid communities and individuals or anyone wanting to try to live easier and healthier.
www.gridfree.ca

Nice.

I am currently confused on the basic set up and structure of cb 2.0. I cant seem to get the full picture on how CB groupjive,blogs and articles category structure should be set up with user groups and access levels especially once you add projectfork.

First points you need to understand:
Joomla Groups and Joomla ACL Views and GroupJive Groups are different concepts.

The first 2 you need to understand are 100% Joomla topics that of course many extensions take advantage of - so you should first see all Joomla related resources and documentation about these topics.

GroupJive Groups is more of a frontend user driven common interest group feature where people can form their GroupJive common interest group and share a common wall, images, files, videos, and forum discussions.

1. lets say i have a category called energy , I would like to have the forum,blogs,and articles +projectfork categories "energy" associated with the group energy.

There are Joomla content categories and Kunena Forum Categories - these are different concepts not related to CB at all. I have no idea how Projectfork categories work and if in fact they integrate with Joomla categories.

When people create a GroupJive group there is built-in integration that automatically creates a Kunena forum category for the group that can be used for private discussions.

Here is a relevant tutorial about this:
www.joomlapolis.com/news/18326-private-group-discussions-for-groupjive-using-kunena

2.when a user makes a new article in "energy" only the article categories should be visible to choose its location(currently all categories in joomla are showing)?

I believe this is 100% a Joomla issue with setting up proper permissions.
Suggest you use Joomla resources (documentation) to see how to limit article creation permissions and category related permissions.

3.choose where to show the content,example energy articles, profile page user1

Articles are shown on Joomla menu pages based on the article menu item.
Again, this is a Joomla issue and not really CB related.

what i am trying to achieve is, having the choice of a group to join, based on the categories of the site, homesteading,energy,growing,construction etc.

I would also like to have a designated page to each category which will have the categories different content(project,blogs,forum,articles etc)available in a single location in different positions.

I would also like projectfork to have the same main categories that are locked to registered members for changes, but will allow creation of a new project as project admin and allow them to use projectfork for there own personal projects set there own access levels, example,

mike wants to build a solar tractor, mike can go into projectfork energy category and make a project "solar tractor" mike would be admin to this "solar tractor" project only, mike can also choose weather his project is private or invite or open to registered members(site set up for registered to post,public to view). to start i would like project default to be public view. and allow "mike" to choose.

I would also like the project visible in someway in profile? if cb 2.0 plugin not out soon..

Sorry, I have no experience with ProjectFork and I am not aware of a CB 2.0 plugin integrating to it (certainly not in our planning).

what i want to achieve is with projectfork,

1. each registered user can create there own project
2.each creator is the super user for his/her project.
3. each creator can choose weather project be for all registered users, or private (invite only),any registered user can join.
4. the viewing of the project category should only be visible depending on the project privacy setting chosen in step 3.
5.creator chooses access right for there own project, manager, super user,etc for his her own project only

Wish I could help but Projectfork is not our product and I have zero experience.

My questions
1. what is the best way to set this up where it wont break CB 2.0 groups?

Why should setting up groups for one extension break CB?
I do not think you need to worry about this (if I am understanding correctly).

2.what is the function of allow create group for each project?
3. will enabling the create new groups function break CB 2.0 user and/or groups?
4.if projectfork creates groups how will Community Builder members get access?
5.anything i may be missing
6.do you add groups and access levels for projectfork in cb,joomla,or projectfork, or groupjive?

See my previous comments on groups and how Groupjive is different and my lack of projectform understanding.


Glad you liked our video tutorials.

I am a newbie, so if its really technical an idiot guide would be great, especially for any code work if needed.

thanks for all the new video tutorials

any and all help is greatly appreciated
thank you in advance

To be honest, your use case is really a full blown Joomla project that needs cross joomla expertise and you might want to look for a professional integrator on one of the freelancing sites.

It really surpasses the scope of these support forums.

I hope this helps - sorry I could not offer more projectfork related guidelines.

HI,

nant wrote: I have no idea how Projectfork categories work and if in fact they integrate with Joomla categories.

There's no relationship betweene Projectfork categories and Joomla categories, each one create and manage their own categorie by themself

nant wrote: Sorry, I have no experience with ProjectFork and I am not aware of a CB 2.0 plugin integrating to it (certainly not in our planning).

That's a bad news, it could certainly be more quick if you were. I'm waiting for an upgrade since a long time but no answer

That's a bad news, it could certainly be more quick if you were. I'm waiting for an upgrade since a long time but no answer

You could probably use CB Auto Actions and its Query action to push user information to ProjectFork. Alternative is a Code action and just use ProjectFork API in it to synchronize the users. There's no plans for an official ProjectFork integration at this time.

In fact the plugin is, for me, very useful not fir push user information to ProjectFork but for displaying user project in his profile tab. I have a look on the php file but I'm not enought a reader of PHP code
I'm sure it's nothing to adapt this plugin because if I compare to others plugins for CB 2.0 it seems to be close to the same?

I understand you have enought work with all CB plugins to update but if you want to have a look you certainly be agree with me