Hide “Create new doc” for non group admins / moderators

I’d create a conditional capabilities rule based on the answer to this other support post:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/disable-doc-creation-for-members/

My preference would be to set the “who can associate docs with this group” setting to whatever level you want and add the following snippet to your custom code. It will hide the “Create new doc” button if a user can’t associate a doc with the current group.
https://gist.github.com/dcavins/2884d5b10a365684a37bb50903c044b0

Hi @dcavins!
Thanks for your answer.
I’ve added this to my “functions.php”.

function my_docs_create_admins_only( $caps, $cap, $user_id, $args ) {
    if ( 'bp_docs_create' == $cap ) {
        // Only admins can create docs.
        if ( bp_current_user_can( 'bp_moderate' ) ) {
            $caps[] = 'exist';
        } else {
            $caps[] = 'do_not_allow';
        }
    }
    return $caps;
}
add_filter( 'bp_docs_map_meta_caps', 'my_docs_create_admins_only', 10, 4 );

Then I’ve tried to change the member to moderator in the group settings of buddypress (wordpress dashboard).

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It does not show the button for the moderator. Am I missing something? Or does this work only with group admins not moderators?

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Hi @wlaurito-

That version only allows user with the bp_current_user_can( 'bp_moderate' ) (site admins) to create docs. Try the gist I provided above (at the end of the answer).

-David

Yeah I’ve just tried it @dcavins! It works for the group pages, but not for /members/username/docs/ on the profile page. Is there a way I can hide it there too?

Hi @wlaurito-

That sounds like a weird setup. You’re going to have to, I guess, check to see if the member is a group admin or mod of any group. So where my gist says
if ( 'bp_docs_create' == $cap && $group_id = bp_get_current_group_id() ) {
you’ll need to substitute some logic in that makes some sense in your setup. I’m totally guessing here, but maybe you could do something like

$mod_of = BP_Groups_Member::get_is_mod_of( $user_id );
$admin_of = BP_Groups_Member::get_is_admin_of( $user_id );
if ( $mod_of['total'] > 0 || $admin_of['total'] > 0 ) {

You’ll just have to play around and see what works.

• This reply was modified 7 years ago by David Cavins.

Thansk @dcavins!
I did the following:

function my_docs_create_follow_group_associate_setting( $caps, $cap, $user_id, $args ) {
    $mod_of = BP_Groups_Member::get_is_mod_of( $user_id );
    $admin_of = BP_Groups_Member::get_is_admin_of( $user_id );

    if($mod_of["total"] == 0 && $admin_of["total"] == 0) {
        $caps[] = 'do_not_allow';
    }

    if ( 'bp_docs_create' == $cap && $group_id = bp_get_current_group_id() ) {
        // In a group, only set this cap if the user can associate a doc with the group.
        if ( current_user_can( 'bp_docs_associate_with_group', $group_id ) ) {
            $caps[] = 'exist';
        } else {
            $caps[] = 'do_not_allow';
        }
    }
    return $caps;
}
add_filter( 'bp_docs_map_meta_caps', 'my_docs_create_follow_group_associate_setting', 10, 4 );

Hi @dcavins
I still have a problem there. If I use the code I’ve posted above then I a non-admin or non-mod can’t access any document. What I actually want is just preventing to create / edit new docs for non-mods or non-admins. But they should still able to view / read them. =/

• This reply was modified 7 years ago by wlaurito.
• This reply was modified 7 years ago by wlaurito.