Hey guys,

I’ve recently found out how I can move profile groups into a separate tab of my buddypress member’s profiles. This is quite useful to make the profiles easier to view. However, when I then hide the profile group in the actual profile view, BP Profile Search doesn’t see the fields anymore and thus the search doesn’t work/search field disappears.

To hide the profile group, I’m using the following code:

function hide_profile_group( $grpid ) {
if ( !bp_is_profile_edit() ) {
$myfield = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Critical Review' );
$grpid['exclude_groups'] = '3';
}
return $grpid;
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'hide_profile_group' );

Any idea how I could accomplish both: Hide the profile group while still allow for the search to work?

Thanks so much in advance 🙂

Hey Andrea,

well, then the fields are also not visible in the separate tab that created for the profile group and thus not really what I would need. Any other ideas?

Kind regards,
Philip

Right. If you look here: https://fslci.org/members/philip-strothmann/criticalreview/ You’ll see, that currently the profile group is displayed twice, once in the actual standard profile and once in the “critical review” tab. With the code above, I can hide it in the standard profile – unless it is edited – so it isn’t showing up twice, but then the search function stops working. Hence I’m not hiding it with the code snippet above for the moment and look for a way to achieve both, hide it but keep it searchable.

Kind regards,
Philip

Ok, so just to get this right: Your idea is to put all groups into new tabs and then instead of hiding the profile group, hide the standard profile tab, right? That could work.

Ah, just saw the custom template idea, that might be an easier way to accomplish the same. Thanks for the suggestions, I’ll look into it 🙂