Hi,

You will have to bypass the group_gatekeeper(); on the group you want public.

There is no easy way around it, if you bypass group_gatekeeper all closed groups will be viewable, so maybe add some extra metadata on the groups you want open for reading. then an IF statement can see if group_gatekeeper should be bypassed.

$group = get_entity(get_input('group_guid'));

if($group->use_forced_read != 'yes'){

group_gatekeeper();

}

 Hope that helps

Thank you, you got me on the right track:

In mod/groups/groupprofile.php, I added the second if-statement:

     $groupaccess = group_gatekeeper(false);
                if (!$groupaccess)
                        $view_all = false;
                if($group->all_read == 'yes'){
                        $view_all = true;
                }

I used the profile_manager plugin to add the metadata variable "all_read" to the group profile as selection variable with the values yes,no.

In order to fix the link to closed groups' blogs so that its target (list of blogs) becomes visible, I changed blog/index.php. I substituted

group_gatekeeper();

with :

  $group = page_owner_entity(get_input('group_guid'));
        if($group->all_read == 'no'){
        group_gatekeeper();
        }

I guess the same will do for all group restricted entities:

./groups/edittopic.php:  group_gatekeeper();
./groups/discussions.php:       group_gatekeeper();
./groups/membership.php:        group_gatekeeper();
./groups/topicposts.php:                group_gatekeeper();
./groups/forum.php:     group_gatekeeper();
./bookmarks/index.php:  group_gatekeeper();
./file/upload.php:      if (is_callable('group_gatekeeper')) {
./file/upload.php:              group_gatekeeper();
./file/friends.php:     if (is_callable('group_gatekeeper')) {
./file/friends.php:             group_gatekeeper();

./file/search.php:              if (is_callable('group_gatekeeper'))

                                           group_gatekeeper();
./file/index.php:       group_gatekeeper();