Solved Preview does not work

Hi
I have CB 2.0.9 installed on my site and K 4.0.3.
If I have the plugin "Kunena - Community Builder integration" published then the preview button does not work.

Unpublish the plugin then preview is working fine.

Does anyone have this issue as well?
And is there a workaround for this issue?

paxx wrote: I have CB 2.0.9 installed on my site and K 4.0.3.
If I have the plugin "Kunena - Community Builder integration" published then the preview button does not work.

Unpublish the plugin then preview is working fine.

Does anyone have this issue as well?

It seems strange that this issue, that was first reported nearly two years ago , is still kicking around in the latest versions of Kunena and Community Builder — CB 2.0.10 has been released, by the way — and that the Kunena - Community Builder plugin seems to be the root cause of the problem. I do not have any advice for you other than what you have already discovered for yourself, that is, to disable the Kunena - Community Builder plugin if you want the message preview function to work.

There is also other advice in this forum about this kind of problem. Although I have not tested these ideas — I do not use CB myself — it could be that the problem only affects people who use Internet Explorer .

I hope that some of this information helps.

Hi
Thanks for your reply.
Find it strange if no one else have this issue. I will write a post on this in the CB Forum as well.

I tried several settings in the plugin and narrowed it down to be the "Enable Access Control" parameter, if this is set to Yes then the preview does not work (and yes I have the GJ plugin installed).

Here are the test I made:

All settings in plugin is set to No
Preview works.

Enable Access Control => Yes (GJ is installed)
Enable Community Builder Login => No
Enable Activity Stream => No
Enable Community Builder Avatars => No
Enable Private Messages => No
Preview does not work.

Enable Access Control => No
Enable Community Builder Login => Yes
Enable Activity Stream => No
Enable Community Builder Avatars => No
Enable Private Messages => No
Preview works.

Enable Access Control => No
Enable Community Builder Login => Yes
Enable Activity Stream => Yes
Enable Community Builder Avatars => No
Enable Private Messages => No
Preview works.

Enable Access Control => No
Enable Community Builder Login => Yes
Enable Activity Stream => Yes
Enable Community Builder Avatars => Yes
Enable Private Messages => No
Preview works.

Enable Access Control => No
Enable Community Builder Login => Yes
Enable Activity Stream => Yes
Enable Community Builder Avatars => Yes
Enable Private Messages => Yes
Preview works.

I am not sure whether my problem is connected to this one. When I try to preview my post, Kunena simply returns an empty white space.

See attached screenshot.

Can You help me ?

Bye, Torsten...

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paxx wrote: Enable Access Control => Yes (GJ is installed)
Enable Community Builder Login => No
Enable Activity Stream => No
Enable Community Builder Avatars => No
Enable Private Messages => No
Preview does not work.

It looks like the key to unravelling this mystery lies in the Enable Access Control setting.

I would like to make two points:

1) I do not know anything about GroupJive and I do not know if it works or (according to the latest report ) how much is "left" to be rewritten.

2) There are two possible settings in the Kunena Category Manager for Access Control Type:

• Access Level (i.e Public, Guest, Super Users, Register, Special)
• User Groups (as defined by Joomla's ACL)

I always set Access Control Type = User Groups.

I understand that some people would like to use other permissions available from Community Builder or JomSocial. I have no knowledge if these other security mechanisms work with Kunena. Kunena is designed to work with Joomla ACL permissions; I have never tested the other types of access control and I do not think they work with Kunena. I could be wrong.

The Commnity Builder integration plugin for Kunena has a setting for "access control"; there is a similar setting for the JomSocial integration plugin, too. I recommend—to be "safe"—to disable this setting; disabling this setting allows Kunena to rely on Joomla's ACL permissions ... and I know those work!

I am sorry that the developers seem to be ignoring this topic.

Hi sozzled
Thanks for taking your time to answer in this post.

As I see it, in my case, it must be something within the GJ plugin for Community Builder.
Kyle (CB Team) is now rewriting this plugin and according to him everything will be tested before an realease.
We'll se then what happens.

The Commnity Builder integration plugin for Kunena has a setting for "access control"; there is a similar setting for the JomSocial integration plugin, too. I recommend—to be "safe"—to disable this setting; disabling this setting allows Kunena to rely on Joomla's ACL permissions ... and I know those work!

Yes - for now I have (in the plugin settings) Enable Access Control => No and so far it seems that everything is working ok. I'll just have to skip the feature where GJ members could have their "own" forums depending on groups.

Once again thank you for taking your time to answer.

Greetings