I recently installed the Facebook-style status module. It's awesome -- thank you!

I'm just having trouble achieving some functionality: I have several different groups of users on my site, and I'd like to build views so that all users of a common role can see each others' statuses. (For example, a teacher would see only other teachers' statuses, while a student would only see other students' statuses.) I don't want users to have to "friend" each other -- I want them to see all the statuses of everyone else within their role.

However, when I tried to edit the filters in the Facebook-style Status view, the available filters were limited, and I couldn't filter by role.

I tried to build a view from scratch, choosing "node" rather than "Facebook-style status update" as the view type. However, here, the Facebook-style status filters weren't available.

Any advice would be much appreciated! Thanks!

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icecreamyou’s picture

icecreamyou commented
Status: Active » Fixed

FBSS is completely unrelated to nodes. You can, however, build a User view that lists statuses, which will expose the User: Roles filter (this is how the default facebook_status view works). In theory other FBSS views could simply add a relationship to the User table (Facebook-style Statuses: User) for the same effect, but I think I broke that relationship recently.

kscott22’s picture

kscott22 commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Thanks, IceCreamYou!

I was messing around with facebook_status_recent and just assumed all the other FBSS views worked similarly. (You know what they say about assumptions....)

The default facebook_status view offers the functionality I need.

Thanks!!!!

guntherdevisch’s picture

guntherdevisch commented

I love Drupal (& forum)! It's somethings so easy to find what you need & make it work!:)

AntiNSA’s picture

AntiNSA commented

I am having a very difficult time getting a views filter to show only the statuses from group members in organic groups. Can you help tell me how you manages to get this to work? I have tried everything, filters, and relationships, but no matter what all statuses are being shown. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

icecreamyou’s picture

icecreamyou commented

It is extremely irritating when you post the same issue in multiple places, especially in closed issues. Stop it.

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AntiNSA commented

sorry . Here is where i am folowing if anywone else is looking for the same thing http://drupal.org/node/883414