Organic Groups - Overview

ORGANIC GROUPSROB CARR - DRUPAL DUNDEE NOV 2013

HTTPS://DRUPAL.ORG/PROJECT/OG

Enable users to create and manage their own 'groups'. Each group can have subscribers, and maintains a group home page where subscribers communicate amongst themselves. They do so by posting the usual node types: blog, story, page, etc.

Groups may be selective or not. Selective groups require approval in order to become a member, or even invitation -only groups. Groups and content can also be private.

There are lots of preferences to configure groups as you need.

Requires Entity Relationship & Views => Entity API and CTools

SITE-WITHIN-A-SITEDELEGATION OF CONTENT AND USER MANAGEMENT

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ENTITY RELATIONSHIPS

Group home page

Content

Users Blog Article etc

Public or

Private

Audience:

Group members

or Public

OG FUNCTIONALITY

Assign each member specific roles.

Create custom role with specific permissions.

Each node can have custom audience.

OG integrates with:

Views + VBO

Panels

Workbench…

Extend OG with:

OG Menu

OG Vocab

OG Subgroups… © Probably Lego

BASIC INSTALLInstall OG, Entity API, Entity Relationships, CTools, Views, Views Bulk Operations.

Create a Group content type.

Enable required Content types for Group content. Group Content != Group content type

SET UP GROUP TYPECreates a ‘Checkbox’ field

ENABLE CONTENT TYPESCan limit association with specific Group types (if more than one Group content type).

Adds an ‘Audience’ field to the content type.

ADD CUSTOM FIELDS/admin/config/group/fields

Add audience/visibility settings for content

Add roles/permissions/visibility/register settings for Groups

DONT FORGET PERMISSIONSBoth OG permissions and sitewide user permissions

Most popular OG-based distributions:

• Drupal Commons: Community focused

• Open Atrium: Team and activity intranet

DISTRIBUTIONS

SUMMARY

• OG for team and community sites - delegation of user and content management.

• Configure:

• Create Group content type

• Configure other Content types to be Group Content

• Permissions/Audience/Privacy

• Extend and integrate OG

http://drupal.org/project/og