Drupal's Organic Groups offers a way for people with similar interests to keep in touch and share information. This site is currently being used to support IDCM Innovations projects.

A few of my clients recently expressed an interest in using Drupal's Organic Groups (OG) capability so I decided to create a groups site to demonstrate its capabilities. I could have just shown them existing group sites, but then I wouldn't be able to dive into the admin view to talk about the setting options. Thus this site needed to be developed. Below are blog articles on the topic of Groups.

Setting up Drupal Organic Groups

By Cindy McCourt - Posted on May 20th, 2009
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There is a presentation online, Intro to Organic Groups, that has some useful information but the nature of the presentation might not be enough to help you install and configure organic groups. Given how long it took me to find the answers to my questions, I thought I would share what I learned and did to set up this site.

Using OG Content Type Admin Module

By Cindy McCourt - Posted on January 29th, 2010
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You can create more than one group node (the node that creates your groups), but why would you if you couldn’t control which content types are associated with the group node? The organic group content type administration (OG_CTA) module (http://drupal.org/project/og_content_type_admin) gives you a way to control which OG content types are available to the group members in the OG details block.

Managing Group Membership

By Cindy McCourt - Posted on July 16th, 2009
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I have had a couple people ask how to manage group membership so here is a quick how-to on the subject.

Anonymous Comments Not Showing

By admin1 - Posted on June 24th, 2009
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Thank you to those who have made some nice comments. I can't seem to get the anonymous comments to show up. I am working on this. If you have any advise, I welcome it.
Update 7/2/09: I have a hack/manual work around. I created an account called anonymous. Went into the comments table and changed the UID from 0 to 10. It worked, which means for some reason, a zero UID value is not being accepted as okay to display. I wonder if the OG module settings I have is causing this.

Using OG for Project Management Support

By Cindy McCourt - Posted on May 30th, 2009
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This article looks at Drupal's Organic Groups module configuration and access setting for a project management support scenario. I chose this scenario because it doesn’t naturally fall into the social media and networking conventions for which organic groups naturally fits. Drupal and many of its contributed modules are designed to work the way you want them to.

Planning your OG Site

By Cindy McCourt - Posted on May 30th, 2009
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The first observation you probably made when installing and configuring organic groups is the site level or “master” controls versus the node level or “group” controls. The master controls configure the settings that you can use for all groups created on your site. The group controls define what you want for that particular group within your site.

Setting up Groups Notifications

By Cindy McCourt - Posted on May 22nd, 2009
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Organic Groups (OG) includes several modules, one of which is Organic Groups Notifications (OGN). By using the OGN module, you can allow your group members to receive notifications and subscribe to group content. OGN runs on Drupal’s messaging and notifications frameworks so you will need these modules as well, which brings me to the purpose of this article.  

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