Hi,

Is it possible to hide some of the categories from the group category list when making a group?

Could this be done with a nodisplay function?

Hi,

could you please elaborate more, why you want do that?
you can delete those categories from joomla backend, if you dont want use it.

Regards

Hey Albertus,

Thanks for all your replies, you've been a great help so far.

Okay, so to start off here is my current understanding...

The current options in JS for group creation are:

1. disable all group creation
2. allow all group creation
3. allow all group creation with approval
4. allow group creation for certain profiles only
5. allow group creation for certain profiles only with approval

However, these option have no bearing on Jomsocial group categories (this will be implemented with JS ACL?). Users can either create groups or they can't.

Basically we're stuck in limbo at the moment until Jomsocial 4.5 comes out with the ACL. With our project we need registered users to be able to create their own groups easily but there are some group categories which we don't want them to be able to create groups in.

This is easier to explain with an example...

Group category A is for registered users to create groups in (all profiles) and Group category B relates to a particular part of our company we are using to present information (we don't want users creating new groups in category B, only administrators).

I'm sure you can see the problem here that either we scrap half our project until JS ACL comes out or it is going to be nightmare for both users and admins once the ACL does come out as groups would then have to be moved into the right places. We could go down the route of all groups need approval at creation but I'm sure you're aware this has a detrimental effect of user interaction.

Using our example above, a temporary work around could be to simply remove or hide group category B from the list on the group creation page so only category A is available for users to create groups in. This would mean our administrators can create the groups for category B, implement the work around, and then users can only create groups in the right place (category A) in preparation for when the ACL comes out.

Does this make sense?

HI.

This could be cone only by a customization. I understand what you need here but currently JomSocial doesn't have such a feature.
Also we don't provide support for customizations like this.
Please, read our Support Policy - especially remarks what we do and don't support at document bottom: www.jomsocial.com/support

Consider to hire professional developer to help you with implementing this feature: www.upwork.com/groups/jomsocial