events creation in groups

Hi UNA team,

Is it possible to create an contextual event from a group page or is there a bug?

(UNA 12.1)

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    • It wasn't possible in UNA 12.1 as I remember, in later version we've added such functionality, however it's not directly possible from "Add new" form, but you can specify specific Group in "Visible to" field during Event creation.

      • Thank you Alex.

        The visibility option setting also works in 12.1 but the event is not listed with the Events link at group's page.

        I tested at online.me and yes there it is listed. May be upgrade time for me is coming :)

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        • A

          What's the status of this as of UNA 14?

          I can't figure out how to create events WITHIN a group that I created (logged in to UNA as admin as well). I can create events unrelated to the group.

          I'm trying to set up groups so users (or admins?) can create events, discussions, and polls WITHIN a group.

          The unacms dot com / wiki hints that this is possible

          Context modules such as [Groups][Groups], [Events][Events], [Spaces][Spaces], and [Courses][Courses] work as containers for content. Users can publish content into context modules, which will set visibility boundaries.

          Context refers to apps that can work as containers for content or context items from other apps. Groups, Spaces, Events are Context Apps. People and Organisations are Profile Apps and Context Apps, too.

          These indicate that we can create groups and within groups, create events, discussions, etc.

          However, none of this "within the context of the group" is clearly visible or is available out of the box when I install groups, events, and discussions

          Are there clear instructions for doing this? ability create groups, and when looking at a group, create events for the group, and create posts/discussions for the group?

          I read other discussion items that don't really help, or make it seem there is a workaround (Sorry I can't post links to the discussions I've already looked at, the UNA discussion board does not allow links to be posted)

          d / groups-add-event  which points to

          d / add-albums-photos-to-group

          • Hello @amp834 !

            Yes, in UNA 14 it is available, see the following picture:

            So if you have the existing group then it will appear in the Visibility field.

            • A

              Thanks! I actually discovered that earlier today and got it working, to make events for a particular group. As other people have commented, it is quite an unnatural UI experience. A more natural experience is to have a button that "while viewing a group, creates an event FOR THAT GROUP that you're viewing".

              I'm now looking into writing php code that works with UNA, and have been reading some of the documentation. There's a lot missing from the documentation, or I haven't found it? I looked at the wiki in github under /unacms/una/wiki, /unaio/una-vendor-test/wiki, and /unaio/una/wiki/

              The "sample vendor-test" example is too basic, and doesn't show how to do anything complex. I figured I should read the code for one of the modules, but most of them seem too complicated. Is there a simple module that I can look at without getting lost?

              Also,

              1. is there a way, in a page block php code, to find a "context"? For example, determine if the page the service block is in is "view-group", and get the group-id that is being viewed? Perhaps I want to fetch some info for that group from my own table, and display it in the block;

              and 2. is there a way for blocks to communicate with other blocks on the page, maybe block 1 puts some info (for example, the group id) into a global array that block 2 can check?

              • The best way in UNA to work with the "entry unit" page is to create the child of the BxBaseModProfilePageEntry class (the modules\base\profile\classes\BxBaseModProfilePageEntry .php file). In the beginning it has the detection of the current unique identification parameter.

                // get profile info
    $iProfileId = bx_process_input(bx_get('profile_id'), BX_DATA_INT);
    $iContentId = 0;
    if ('mine' == bx_get('id')) {
      $o = BxDolProfile::getInstance();
      if ($o && $iContentId = $o->getContentId())
        $_GET['id'] = $_REQUEST['id'] = $iContentId;
    } else {
      $iContentId = bx_process_input(bx_get('id'), BX_DATA_INT);
    }

    if ($iProfileId)
      $this->_oProfile = BxDolProfile::getInstance($iProfileId);

    if (!$this->_oProfile && $iContentId)
      $this->_oProfile = BxDolProfile::getInstanceByContentAndType($iContentId, $this->MODULE);

    if ($this->_oProfile) {
      $this->_aProfileInfo = $this->_oProfile->getInfo();
      $this->_aContentInfo = $this->_oModule->_oDb->getContentInfoById($this->_aProfileInfo['content_id']);
    }

                So then your child class may use the 

                $this->_aProfileInfo['content_id']

                or 

                $this->_oProfile->id()

                elements in all blocks for the "entry" page of your module.

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