Hello,
I am writing in French as it will be easier for me to explain the issue.
I have created groups and placed them in a category (I believe that is the correct approach); however, when I go to the group’s “activity” section, I see all the members’ activities, and some of these activities are not related to the group. Is it possible to remove activities that are not related to the group?
Thank you.
I think there is a misunderstanding (if I am not mistaken): A group is linked to users (a user attribute: they are either part of a group or not), whereas a category applies to discussion topics (which category each topic is located in). I don’t think you can “put groups into a category.” Unless you mean that you created categories whose access is restricted to specific groups?
You are seeing the activity of the group members. A group is simply a selection of members. What do you mean by an activity “related to the group”? Only what happens in a category whose access is limited to the group?
(Provided I have understood correctly)
Thank you for your response.
There is a lot of confusion; I believe this is reflected in my message. Can members of a group communicate with each other? I would like to create a group where people can communicate with one another without others seeing it. For example, I could create a group named “Airbus” (a fictional name) that includes all Airbus members. These members will inevitably discuss Airbus, but they may also be called upon to respond to other topics, such as innovation. However, within the group, I would like only interactions and topics related to Airbus to appear. Is this possible?
I must admit that yes, there are a few slight confusions.
I would say it’s like in “real life”: Of course, members of a group can talk to each other. But can we make it so they can ONLY talk to each other? (i.e., prevent them from talking to non-members of the group)? I don’t think so.
I believe we need to see things exactly as described above: A group = people who are members or not, without this having any real consequence IN ITSELF. For example, the group can be mentioned using “@group” (“at sign group”).
Then, there is private and public. Everything that happens privately is not visible to others. Note that a private message can include multiple people.
What you clearly want is this:
Create categories reserved for members of a group. You act at the level of categories that group discussion threads, not at the level of the group members themselves. However, membership in the group is what then grants access to these reserved categories.
Hope this is fairly clear.
(EDIT: Unless this is what you’ve already done, and things still appear in “activity” when they shouldn’t? Does a non-member of the group have access to the messages/discussion threads you wish to keep reserved for the group? If yes, the issue isn’t the display of “activity,” but your settings.)
Thank you for your response. I understand a bit better now, but it’s still a bit unclear. I want the “activities” section to show only activities related to the group itself, not ALL activities of the group’s members. I’m not sure if there’s a setting for that, but I hope this is a bit clearer. Sorry for the confusion. I’m just starting to really understand all the parameters and how to use them, but the beginning was a bit complex.
“Activity” refers to what is actually displayed, not what you seem to be looking for. If your specific issue is THIS, does it matter that “activity” displays this (and/or nothing else)? If so, it appears you would need to develop (or have developed) a plugin for this.
If not, the search function may potentially provide this information: An empty search for a user’s messages within a given category (the “group” category. This is what you mean by the “group’s” activity, correct?)
I think you should stop using the term “group activities.” Because what would that correspond to? You would want a display of “activities” restricted to one or more categories, is that right? The category or categories based on the member’s group (private or non-private categories, by the way? Are they accessible to non-members? You haven’t answered on this point)
Existing default setting to do what I understood you wanted: No, I don’t think so.
On a search (where links can be created. Links that you can insert into the member’s profile. So visible and clickable when you click on the member) For you here on meta, restricting to the “installation” category, this would give: Search results for '@Camille_Augereau #installation' - Discourse Meta, whereas without restricting to the “installation” category: Search results for '@Camille_Augereau' - Discourse Meta (which would correspond quite well to “activity”).
However, I notice that only one message appears for now. I believe not everything is added to the search index immediately; it probably takes a few hours.
This is even more confusing than earlier.
I apologize if it takes me a little time to understand; that is why I wanted to communicate in French.
That is indeed the starting point: Your “group activity” has a certain meaning in your mind, but it doesn’t seem to have one in reality (technically, I mean). How do you expect the forum to know the difference between what IS and what IS NOT “group activity”? That’s why I invited you to forget this terminology.
You need to identify threads in order to determine what would be related to a particular “group” in your context. OK, there would presumably be the fact that the thread was created by a group member, as you mentioned, but that is somewhat more difficult to search for (it would likely remain possible only within a “custom” plugin). So, automatically, your “group activity” would be a post in a thread created by another group member. Although this probably wouldn’t work in reality, since they can also create threads having nothing to do with the group…
The simplest approach is identification by category or tag. Everything within one or more categories, or the addition of one or more tags (the advantage being that threads can then be in any category).
If you want to restrict access only to members of a group, a category allows this (link posted above).
Do you observe the activity of the user “camille” while logged in as an admin?
If so, I recommend creating a “normal” TL1 account to better understand the granularity of permissions regarding “who sees what”; the admin sees everything 
Yes, of course I did that; I have several accounts under my name to test everything, rest assured… This changes nothing, and I verified multiple times before asking this question on Discourse.
If I understand correctly, she has a dual issue: one is potentially hiding private activity (from non-members of the group), and the other is displaying only “useful” activity and not the rest (to group members). The question was mainly about the latter aspect. Using the search function after resolving the issue of identifying the feeds seems like a simple solution (instead of trying to use the activity tab).
If I set the group to private, that fixes the first issue. As for my second issue, the Activity tab is still clearly present, and I can’t remove it. So even if I created a category dedicated solely to this group, group members would still see everyone’s activities. That said, the alternative of creating a category to focus interactions on a specific topic seems reasonable and, in a way, sidesteps my original problem. When you say “files,” do you mean “topics”?
You cannot make a “group” private. A category, yes.
(EDIT: Well, actually, you can control visibility, whether the member list is visible, and whether it can be joined freely. But I don’t think that’s what you meant.)
Unless you ONLY create private categories accessible based on group membership. Only activity in public categories is visible by default. But what is the underlying issue here? Hiding information? Avoiding distraction? Something else?
I have mainly used Discourse in English. Yes, “file” is likely “topic”. That was my own (poor) translation of “topic”.
(EDIT: Do you have a concept of “group” coming from Google, Yahoo, or Facebook? That makes the terminology a bit difficult to understand. I also have some trouble understanding your focus on the “activity” tab: Information is either accessible or not. Whether it’s here or elsewhere—I mean, the question is whether a topic is accessible or not. I don’t fully understand the importance of whether it appears in “activity”.)
I suppose the guardian filters group members’ activity based on the permissions of the logged-in user. So, for example, if members of the “camille” group, and the person observing, are also part of other groups that have access to other categories, there’s no reason for their posts in those other categories to be filtered. 
Should they be?
In my opinion, what’s really being sought here isn’t a group’s activity, but activity within a category, which is close enough if only one group can read/post in that category. Personally, I tend not to let group members access the member list (the group is visible only to the owner) and instead direct everyone to the categories.
That’s where I don’t fully understand his underlying motivation 
the activities … in the categories visible to the groups that “members” and “everyone” simultaneously belong to.
The crux of the “problem” is that it doesn’t really make sense to post “as a member of a specific group”; rather, you post “in a specific place”, and this is reflected in the UI.
! Advanced search: posts from members of a group - #3 by JagWaugh
perhaps this is partly a solution:
https://your.domain/search?q=category%3Acamille%20group%3Acamille
This comes down to the same as “activity”. What I understood from their issue is that it’s not WHO posts that matters to them, but whether they posted something RELATED to the group’s “theme”. Except that it seems “obvious” to her what is “related” or not. If it isn’t defined in one way or another (category, tag), it’s not manageable.
Let’s give her time to digest this quietly.
hmm… I think “activity” is more like
https://your.domain/search?q=group%3Acamille.
here there is an intersection with category%3Acamille and filtering of what group members might have posted elsewhere.
and even stronger (I’m discovering new things every day 
), but you need the category_id
https://your.domain/g/camille/activity/posts?category_id=xxx
filters what’s needed, I suppose it should be relatively “simple” to automate this filter on the activity tab, although… you still have to specify which category should be displayed for each group…
Yes, sorry. I missed that you were filtering by a category, in addition to group membership 
That can indeed enable certain things if the category is open and not exclusive to the group. Maybe that’s exactly what they need, yes.
Hello @Mevo @Benjamin_D
I have the same issue. When creating a private group, the purpose is for members to exchange information confidentially among themselves, without other members being able to read the exchanged content. That is indeed the objective of a private group.
However, each member of this same private group can view the activities of other members of that same group on the platform, which have no connection to the private group. This seems problematic… and this is also what I would like to disable, so that a member of the private group cannot read the activities of other members on the platform.
