[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress Trac] #3460: Support custom post types in activity stream

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#3460: Support custom post types in activity stream
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 Reporter:  boonebgorges                         |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                          |  boonebgorges
 Priority:  low                                  |      Status:  new
Component:  Activity                             |   Milestone:  Future
 Severity:  normal                               |  Release
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion has-patch needs-testing  |     Version:  1.2.8
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Comment (by imath):

 Replying to [comment:70 boonebgorges]:
 > Thanks for the work here, imath. I've finally started to take a close
 look at it.
 You're welcome and thanks a lot for looking at it :)

 > - If I understand correctly, settings for a given post type are shared
 across sites. Say I'm running a plugin that registers post type 'foo' on a
 couple of subsites. If I want to record 'foo' on one subsite but not on
 another, then I'm out of luck, right? (aside from changing privacy
 settings)
 > - In the same vein, it appears that a post type (say, Pages) that is
 marked as "tracked" in the global BP settings cannot be disabled on
 subsites. If this is going to be the case, then it should be reflected in
 the interface. However, I think it probably should *not* necessarily be
 the case - it seems like a very common use case to want to track a post
 type on the root blog but not the same post type on a secondary blogs.
 If a plugin doesn't want to be tracked, he can choose to set his
 show_in_nav_menu args to false.
 Actually, each site Admin can choose what post type will be tracked. In
 the example above. If site A want to track 'foo' and site B doesn't want,
 he can choose to deactivate the tracking. Each site has the choice. If the
 SuperAdmin wants to be the only one to control, he can disable the sub
 site Site Tracking settings sub menu.

 > - The interaction of privacy settings and trackability on subsites is a
 bit confusing. As it stands, it looks like setting blog_public = 0 is
 enough to disable all tracking for the site. But if this is the case, then
 the interface should enforce it and/or provide documentation. So, eg, the
 whole checkbox section should be disabled or hidden when the blog is not
 public.
 Well it's the case, if the blog is defining itself as not public, then,
 the Site Tracking settings menu is no more available as anyway when the
 blog record post function will run no post type from his blog will be
 tracked. As soon as the admin will define his blog as public the Site
 Tracking submenu will show again.
 I haven't check for the root blog, but i have some doubt he would do that,
 because it would be weird to activate the site tracking component in this
 case :)

 > - At the same time, if we're going to start allowing fine-grained, per-
 post-type user settings for blog tracking, maybe we should be doing away
 with the blog_public bit - or at least, we would only use blog_public = 0
 to provide default tracking settings (unchecked)
 Well it's still a good way to completely disable the blog tracking, but it
 can be "done away" because as you said, each blog has the power to choose
 what post type will be tracked.

 > Again, I'm not 100% sure which way to go with any of these questions,
 but all of them need some work and some discussion.
 > As for the milestone, I think that we are too late to complete this
 ticket, as currently conceived, for BP 2.0.

 I agree, this still needs a lot of testing. I'd say let's do it all for
 2.1 ;)

 My concern is more about the drop down list to filter activities.. If the
 network is tracking a lot of post types, this can be huge !!

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