I’m trying to Add a new Buddypress menu tab and it is not showing up

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question: I am trying to create a new sub nav item for the groups on buddy press I am using bp_core_new_subnav_item to do it and passing the screen_function, but the tab is not displaying on the group page

Any ideas where I should be looking on this?

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Heres our code. 

bp_core_new_nav_item( array(
  'name' => 'Document List',
  'slug' => 'group-document-list',
  'parent_url' => $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->groups->slug . '/',
  'parent_slug' => $bp->groups->slug,
  'screen_function' => 'group_document_list_function_to_show_screen',
  'position' => 55 ) );

  function group_document_list_function_to_show_screen() {

   //add title and content here - last is to call the members plugin.php template
   add_action( 'bp_template_title', 'group_document_list_function_to_show_screen_title' );
   add_action( 'bp_template_content', 'group_document_list_function_to_show_screen_content' );
   bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( 'bp_core_template_plugin', 'members/single/plugins' ) );
}
function group_document_list_function_to_show_screen_title() {
    echo 'Documents for this group';
}
function group_document_list_function_to_show_screen_content() {
   display_group_document_list();
}
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  1. Make sure that you only attempt to set up the items after BP has set up its core navigation. You can ensure this by hooking to bp_setup_nav with a priority higher than 10.

    Thus:

    function bbg_setup_nav() {
    bp_core_new_subnav_item( array( 
        'name' => 'Document List',
        'slug' => 'group-document-list',
        'parent_url' => $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->groups->slug . '/',
        'parent_slug' => $bp->groups->slug,
        'screen_function' => 'group_document_list_function_to_show_screen',
        'position' => 55
    ) );
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bbg_setup_nav', 100 );

    Keep in mind that, as written, this code is intended to add a subnav tab to the Groups subnav of a user profile. If you want to attach it to a single group instead, you need to relativize it to groups, using a different parent_slug and parent_url:

    // ...
'parent_slug' => bp_get_current_group_slug(),
'parent_url'  => bp_get_group_permalink( groups_get_current_group() )
// ...

    To be honest, though, if you want to be adding subnav items to BP Groups, your best bet is to use the BP Group Extension API http://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/group-extension-api/. You just fill in a few methods, and all the BP-specific navigation logic is done for you. If there are methods (like create_screen() you’re not going to use, just leave them blank.