"Groups"-tab settings has no function

[gdorfer]

dear smf-fans,

i am using joomla 1.0.12 and smf 1.1.1 merged with the bridge from simplemachines.org; everything works really fine expect one thing:
i have many existing members in smf (which have been imported from an old phpbb) and i would like to have a specific group from smf to be author/publisher in joomla.

in the bridge configuration there is a tab for "groups" where i can give a similar joomla group for the smf groups. i can give whatever i want, i already set every group to "author". whenever i check the joomla ranks everyone is only "registered".

the group tab is only working for smf-admins and not more. i've already checked if the bridge only recognizes primary user groups from smf, but this doesn't work either.

i don't know what i should do concerning this problem. do you have any ideas?

greetings
günther

[Orstio]

After Saving the settings in the Groups tab, in order to make all the changes immediate, you must go to the Synch tab and Synch the groups.

[gdorfer]

thanks for the reply.

i've already synced the groups, and when i do this i only get super administrators and "registered"...

[gdorfer]

I've now check the table jos_smf_groups and saw that there were hundreds of group_sync entries. i've now deleted everything and now it seems to work except of one thing:

everytime i change something in the group tabs the bridge doesn't update the group_sync entries, it creates new ones?!?! what can i do about that?

furthermore, one question:
am i right if i think that the bridge only recognizes the primary group and doesn't see if the user is assigned to other groups too, which would have a higher joomla user level?

[gdorfer]

now that i knew my problem, i've found a code fix for the bridge code to do the mysql update right, from http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=117579.0
thanks a lot;

please, someone to answer my last question and tell me if its possible to do that?