Question Private Group forums and Public group forums for JomSocial

Everyone who is interested in this, please contact me on Skype or by email: [email protected]. NOT by PM, I'm not reading them every day or even every week.

Yes! I would pay for this feature.

This seems to be a very obvious need. It's hard to imagine a community or organization that doesn't require a truly private discussion area for certain topics. To the extent that Kunena desires to be fully integrated with the burgeoning universe of JomSocial communities, it would seem to be a must. I would pay for the feature.

I too would be more than happy to pay! Would resolve a lot of issues for us.

Any progresss on this feature?
Thanks

BeTheDance wrote: Any progresss on this feature?
Thanks

I'd love to know as well.

Is this going to be a possibility in the future?

i need this feature :lol:

Ive had to Host Kunena on a separate website then use Joomla's Wrapper function as a temporary fix.

I certainly cant have everyone who needs to use our Forum accessing JomSocial. Its caused loads of confusion.

It would be awesome to finally have this feature.

The ideas for creating private "forums" - or to be more technically accurate, private categories - whether or not for JomSocial or any other social network-related Joomla extension, have been kicked around many times before. See [Merged topic] User Groups, User Group Privileges, ACLs .

Although it's possible to implement some kind of "group" demarcation within your website using a combination of tools for Joomla 1.5 (e.g Community Builder and JomSocial already have these features and frameworks like NoixACL also extends J! 1.5 functionality) the full realisation of this potential will not be accomplished natively within Joomla until J! 1.6. Perhaps this area is one of the major weaknesses of Joomla in comparison with other open source frameworks like Wordpress and Drupal - see Wordpress vs Joomla vs Drupal , Drupal, WordPress, or Joomla? (A Trick Question) and The World's Greatest CMS as examples of other people's opinions. Whatever are the currently-held beliefs about Joomla in comparison with other open source CMS frameworks, when Joomla 1.6 arrives those beliefs will need to be revised.

Going forward, Kunena 1.7 is already in the early design stages and one of the key deliverables being examined is support for private "forums"; that is to say, the ability to have one site, one Kunena installation, satisfy the individualistic needs of a diverse community: to keep the discussion topics separated from one another.

Let me illustrate a possible business case. Suppose you are developing a website for a club. Let us say that the club's management has specified the following types of users who will need access to the site:

1. Administration
   • Management
   • Staff
2. Membership
   • General membership interests
     • Events
     • Services (e.g. dining, event bookings, hours of operation, venue locations, facilities offered by the club, etc.)
     • Specialised membership interests
       • Sporting-related interests, e.g. tennis, lawn bowls, swimming
       • Health and fitness
       • Social and interests e.g. card nights, darts, chess, toastmasters, parents without partners, morning coffee gatherings, etc.

As you can see, people involved within the club may belong to several of these classes at the same time and they will need access to all of the classes to which they belong. It's possible to have, for example, club employees who are also a members of the gym and who participate in the same activities as ordinary members. In fact, the possibilities can be a quite complex than how I've tried to illustrate with this simple example.

Meeting this requirement in Joomla 1.5 is just not that easy to do. Joomla 1.6 will make things better and Kunena, going forward, will exploit the ability to do that in the sense of having private "forums".

I hope some of what I've written helps this discussion - even though I am not a JomSocial user and I'm not conversant with the features contained in JomSocial.