Folks, you seam to miss the boat on this. The current GroupJive is a STABLE project. This means the ONLY goal is to stabilize it. Forum integration was added, because it was in such high demand that GJ was useless without it.

I am re-writting groupjive, but it takes time. A lot of the features you're asking will probably go in. We use integrations to give people choices on what they want their site to function like. GroupJive is meant to provide groups, it's not a forum. So why waste weeks of development on making custom forums for GroupJive. Instead we can take a few days to integrate an existing full featured forum. Some features will be part of GroupJive, but most will be integrations with an easy to use API. So feature list is limitless.

Then you'll be able to use those scripts as you see fit, as explained there are triggers in the same way triggers are used in CB. You'll be able to add all the integrations you want. Use any type of forum or integration your own forum. All done through CB plugins and capable of using CB API.

okstated wrote:

Hjames is right. It really shouldn't be an integration. The point of groups is to have discussion, BUT having to rely so heavily on so many external integrations that can constantly change makes GroupJive less stable and more dependant on those external factors. Plus I would imagine such integrations would make development more difficult for the developers since you have to sort out all the conflicts that arise between the programs as they change.

All that is really needed is a simple post script similar to the bulletin/announcement function that already exists, but slightly more robust (ie - by category and by user).

Again, this is doable as there are triggers allowing you to create any kind of integration plugin you want. It does not have to integration an extension. You can develop an inline displayed plugin if you see fit, such as forums specifically and only for groupjive, etc... Possibilities are limitless. All done by simple triggers.