Hi there,

as opposed to the old OG6, it seems that in OG7 there are no simple statistics data about grups available or stored or views-enabled, such as "number of members", "number of group topics" -- i guess because it is not possible to supply statistics hard coded in og when the definitions and relations about what entitiy a group is and consists of is done at site-buidling-time (since og7 is so flexible with entities and fields as opposed to the old og6). Nevertheless, this data is needed in views for sorting by many og-usecases and people using og (in i guess 90% of all cases in the "standard" way of having group-nodes, group-posting-nodes with -comments, and member-users).

So,
1) did i get it right about the missing statistics data?
2) is there a current work-around, 3rd party module or best-practise for this?
3) are there any plans to support that or does anybody work on a og_statistics.module for OG7?
4) has anybody come around that in a quick-and-dorty way yet?

cheers,

daniel

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idiotprayer commented

In the interest of possibly getting some collaboration on this, my initial port of the Organic Groups Statistics module is at http://drupal.org/sandbox/idiotprayer/1086720.
Much of it is not working, but a start is better than nothing?
Also, it was suggested that this module use fields for storage rather than its own table. I have another version (of which even less is working) which does that, but there were many areas where I couldn't figure out fields, eg. basics like hiding the field from the ui.
The big thing I couldn't figure out, and this precludes one essential - the 'number of members' - stat, is the fact that there is no longer a 'hook_og' in 7. I'm unable to work out what to use instead; whether a hook_field_update on the groups_audience field with logic is overthinking it and a bit heavy, whether there is an easy way to add new hook, etc.

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ybthefurste commented

The sandbox module works for me, but I had to add the following inelegant redirect because the _og_statistics_user_stat2db (...) is mistakenly being called when a new group is created (line 248). I think that hook_user_update is being called before hook_node_insert. I can't really decipher that area, so inside _og_statistics_user_stat2db, after the $group=, I've added a check of the db to determine if a group with that nid exists; if it doesn't, abort the table update.

/**** START HACK ****/  
      $i=false;
      if ($result= db_query( "SELECT nid FROM {og_statistics} WHERE nid = :nid", array(':nid'=>$group->etid))) {
      	foreach( $result as $row ) { $i=true; }
      }
      // if results have been found, proceed.  Otherwise, the group hasn't yet been created
      if(!$i) { return; }  // leave.  don't perform user_update if group is brand new
/**** END HACK ****/
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g089h515r806 commented

I need this feature too.

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amitaibu
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Location Israel
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One solution, is you can have a field holding the members count, and with some custom code, populate it upon user join/ leave.

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g089h515r806 commented

It is a googd idea

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playfulwolf commented

g089h515r806 - have you working example? I am working on the same problem and it seems that the way to build it with Rules is the best at the moment

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joelpittet
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