BuddyBoss+GES sending too many emails when uploading files to BB Documents area

Hi. I had a problem with BuddyBoss and GES and wanted to share a solution.

When uploading multiple files to the GG Group documents area, many notification emails are sent by GES, most of which are blank.

For example, if you select and upload 3 files in one update and add some text to the upload comment, a total of 7 notification emails are sent; 3 with blank content, 1 with upload comment and then another 3 with blank content!

BB have confirmed this is as designed!!

But it is possible to filter out the blank activities (emails) using the code below.

/** * Prevent activity item queuing if the Activity_type is "activity_update" and the * activity content is empty. * * @param bool $send Defaults to true. Return false to stop this item from being queued. * @param string $type Activity type. * @param BP_Activity_Activity $activity Activity item. */ function hws_ass_block_group_activity_types( $send, $activity_type, $activity_item) { if ("activity_update" == $activity_type && isset($activity_item) && empty($activity_item->content) ) { $send = false; } return $send; } add_filter( 'ass_block_group_activity_types', 'hws_ass_block_group_activity_types', 10, 3 ); 

I hope this helps someone else as I went around in circles for quite a while before working this out. -C