[Solved] Jomsocial groups not auto created after upgrade

Good day,

I upgraded to the latest version of Joomdle, modules and plugins and found the following problems:

1. Users are not automatically added to Jomsocial groups when I enrol them into a course in Moodle
2. All my existing group posts are missing (disappeared) from the the module (JS Latest group posts)

I am using:
Joomla v 3.4.3
Moodle 2.7

Please advise

Hi there,

Did anything else get upgraded aside from Joomdle? What version of Joomdle did you upgrade from?

For the first one, we would need to try and replicate the problem to be able to respond. What version of JS are you running?
For the second one, Joomdle does not touch the posts. Are you sure the posts are missing or just access to the posts? You can look at the database to see if the posts are truly gone.

Hi Chris,

I am using Jomsocial 4.0.4
I upgraded from Joomdle 1.0.1 to 1.0.2
I compared the Joomla database before and after the upgrade and found that the activities after the upgrade was missing or had limited nr of posts which is very strange.

I know that the activities are working as the new posts does appear on the module when I make a new post so that is not my main concern but the fact that students are not automatically added to the Jomsocial groups once you enroll the users into a Moodle Course.

Hi there,

Just to be sure, the groups plugin is enabled? Antonio is on leave and my version of JS is quite old thus if you have groups enabled, would you be able to send a copy of your JS package to development@joomdle.com and I will have a quick look.

Hi.

I have tested with the Jomsocial package you sent us and Joomdle 1.0.2, and everything seems to be working fine:
- I created a new course, and new group was created in Jomsocial
- I enroled a user, and he was added to the group in Jomsocial

Did you test creating a new course and enroling a user to see if it works?
If that works, maybe Jomsocial upgrade has removed course_id param from groups in database.

Hi Antonio,

Thank you for the reply.

I tested it with a newly created course and it works!
How can I manage to create Jomsocial Groups when I enroll students to exiting courses? (even if I have to initially manipulate the database so it adds future students?)

Regards

Hi Martin.

If you check table #__community_groups in database, and open the newly created group, you'll see something like this on params field:
{"discussordering":0,"photopermission":1,"videopermission":1,"grouprecentphotos":6,"grouprecentvideos":6,"newmembernotification":"1","joinrequestnotification":"1","course_id":4}

Last one is the important one: "course_id":4

If you check a group from an old course, and the problem is the one I guessed, you won't see any course_id in params field.
You could try adding it in database, changing "4" by the database Moodle course ID. You can see all course IDs listed in backend, for example in Joomdle->Forums.

Then, you can try enroling a new user, to see if it correctly adds him to the group.

Antonio,

Thank you so much for the great info - that worked perfectly!
Thanx for the great support - and thank you for such a great integration platform.

Have great day

I am glad it worked, thank you for the kind words!