Title: Installation Issues Note
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Installation Issues Note

 *  Resolved [sloankev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sloankev/)
 * (@sloankev)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-issues-note/)
 * So I just spent an hour debugging an issue when you try to activate the plugin:
 * > Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
   >  Could not
   > create the required column. Please enable debugging for more details.
 * And when you enable bugging you get this error:
 * > Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in */wp-content/plugins/bp-group-
   > hierarchy/index.php on line 40
 * So after a lot of debugging I figured out the problem was simply that you need
   to **enable buddypress groups in settings -> buddypress** for this plugin to 
   work!
 * Anyways… even though this is a silly error it’s easy to make if you have been
   messing around with settings before installing. Hopefully this saves someone 
   some time!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-group-hierarchy/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-group-hierarchy/)

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 *  Thread Starter [sloankev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sloankev/)
 * (@sloankev)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-issues-note/#post-3882079)
 * Just marking as resolved.
 *  Plugin Author [David Dean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ddean/)
 * (@ddean)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-issues-note/#post-3882239)
 * Hi sloankev –
 * Thanks for posting this for everyone!
 * BP started shipping with groups disabled in 1.7, and this plugin doesn’t handle
   that change very gracefully. A better notice will be included in the next version.
 * – David
 *  [Kevin McClellan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crazywpgeek/)
 * (@crazywpgeek)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-issues-note/#post-3882290)
 * This really saved me some time! Thanks. I was getting same error with fresh install
   and what sloankev said works 100%
 * Thanks!

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 * [installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation/)

 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Kevin McClellan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crazywpgeek/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-issues-note/#post-3882290)
 * Status: resolved