Buddypress ajax problem after adding new groups sub nav

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This problem has been bugging me for couple of days. After adding a new subnav, I got the following error when trying to use the drop down groups filter:
404 Not Found – mysite.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php”

Basically I wanted to add a new subnav items under a member’s main nav “groups”. Currently there are two subnav items there: “memberships” and “invitations”. I would like to add my own subnav item called “My Customized Groups”. When this subnav is clicked, it will show groups of certain feature.

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Okay the first step is to create a new subnav items. I did it by adding the following code to my functions.php 

//add new subnav items
bp_core_new_subnav_item( array(
'name' => __( 'My Customized Groups', 'buddypress' ),
'slug' => 'my-custom-groups',
'parent_url' => $groups_link,
'parent_slug' => $bp->groups->slug,
'screen_function' => 'groups_screen_my_custom_groups',
'position' => 20
));

To make sure my subnav works, my screen_function “groups_screen_my_custom_groups” is a exactly copy of the default “groups_screen_my_groups”. Now the subnav is added, and groups loop show up correctly. But when I select the drop down filter ( “last active”, “most members”, “newly created”, etc), the following error shows up:
404 Not Found – mysite.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php”

if I set this new subnav as the default by adding the following code in functions.php 

$args = array(
'parent_slug' => $bp->groups->slug,
'screen_function' => 'groups_screen_my_custom_groups',
'subnav_slug' => 'my-custom-groups'
);

bp_core_new_nav_default($args);

Then the ajax works correctly for my-custom-groups, but it doesn’t work for other subnav items anymore. It seems ajax only works for the default subnav? This is strange.

It must be something minor, but I still can’t figure out what’s been wrong after searching everywhere for two days.

Thanks in advance for the help.

WordPress version: 3.4.2
buddypress version: 1.6.1

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  1. Is i commented previously im having the same error. I dont know what it causing it but i found a workaround for it.

    Im using a modified version (by me) of the plugin buddypress-groups-tags which allows me to create categories for groups. That plugin uses bp_core_new_subnav_item to be able to use slugs like : http://local.dev/groups/category/teachers/

    My problem was that inside that url in the activity loop, the more link was getting a 404 responde header error on admin-ajax.php. If i check the response content all the activity data was there. So im not sure what is causing the problem.

    To solve it i added a function that will return a status header of 200 when the ajax call is triggered. In my case i needed for “get_older_updates” action but i suppose you can use it for any other action defined at /bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/ajax.php:27

    add_action( 'wp_ajax_activity_get_older_updates', 'bp_dtheme_activity_template_loader2' );
add_action( 'wp_ajax_nopriv_activity_get_older_updates', 'bp_dtheme_activity_template_loader2' );

function bp_dtheme_activity_template_loader2(){
    if(isset($_REQUEST['action']) && $_REQUEST['action'] == 'activity_get_older_updates')
    {
        status_header( 200 );
    }
}

    Hope it helps!