Organic Group heartbeat with views block

Good news is, I figured out how to do this. Bad news is, it took a lo of messing around till I figured it out. Basically, I had to create a rule for group content that sets the "Node target Id" to the Group ID when a user submits group content.

I was then able to toss an argument on there to make it work.

A little difficult at first, but I think it's working. I'll try to put together some documentation when I have some time.

Sorry, Hardrocker. I haven't had time to do so yet as I have been busy. Properly documenting this is on my list of things to do as soon as I have time. However, here are the 2 magic components, I hope you know enough to make sense of these.

I am assuming you have set up Rules to record the activities you wish to capture. Once you have your rule, you will want to make sure to set up the "Node Target Id" as seen on your rule config screen. This is the field you need to edit -> http://drupal.org/files/issues/rule-config.jpg

Then, you will go over to your view and add an argument of the type "Heartbeat activity: Node Target". For the argument settings, you will want to set it up like this -> http://drupal.org/files/issues/argument-config.jpg

Brief explanation: The first step is what actually records the OG Context to the activity messages table. The second step just filters the messages to only show those messages that match the group context of the page the user is viewing.

I hope that helps, I'm a little rushed right now.

Here is an export of my view. Should be a little quicker than trying to explain it all. You'll probably need to modify it a bit since this is probably pretty specific to my site.

$view = new view;
$view->name = 'class_heatbeat';
$view->description = '';
$view->tag = 'Classes';
$view->view_php = '';
$view->base_table = 'heartbeat_activity';
$view->is_cacheable = FALSE;
$view->api_version = 2;
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */
$handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Defaults', 'default');
$handler->override_option('relationships', array(
  'message_id' => array(
    'label' => 'Activity message id',
    'required' => 0,
    'id' => 'message_id',
    'table' => 'heartbeat_activity',
    'field' => 'message_id',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('fields', array(
  'timestamp' => array(
    'label' => 'Action\'s timestamp',
    'alter' => array(
      'alter_text' => 0,
      'text' => '',
      'make_link' => 0,
      'path' => '',
      'link_class' => '',
      'alt' => '',
      'prefix' => '',
      'suffix' => '',
      'target' => '',
      'help' => '',
      'trim' => 0,
      'max_length' => '',
      'word_boundary' => 1,
      'ellipsis' => 1,
      'html' => 0,
      'strip_tags' => 0,
    ),
    'empty' => '',
    'hide_empty' => 0,
    'empty_zero' => 0,
    'date_format' => 'time ago',
    'custom_date_format' => '1',
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'timestamp',
    'table' => 'heartbeat_activity',
    'field' => 'timestamp',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
  'message' => array(
    'label' => 'Message',
    'alter' => array(
      'alter_text' => 0,
      'text' => '',
      'make_link' => 0,
      'path' => '',
      'link_class' => '',
      'alt' => '',
      'prefix' => '',
      'suffix' => '',
      'target' => '',
      'help' => '',
      'trim' => 0,
      'max_length' => '',
      'word_boundary' => 1,
      'ellipsis' => 1,
      'html' => 0,
      'strip_tags' => 0,
    ),
    'empty' => '',
    'hide_empty' => 0,
    'empty_zero' => 0,
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'message',
    'table' => 'heartbeat_activity',
    'field' => 'message',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('sorts', array(
  'timestamp' => array(
    'order' => 'DESC',
    'granularity' => 'second',
    'id' => 'timestamp',
    'table' => 'heartbeat_activity',
    'field' => 'timestamp',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('arguments', array(
  'nid_target' => array(
    'default_action' => 'default',
    'style_plugin' => 'default_summary',
    'style_options' => array(),
    'wildcard' => 'all',
    'wildcard_substitution' => 'All',
    'title' => '',
    'breadcrumb' => '',
    'default_argument_type' => 'og_group_node',
    'default_argument' => '',
    'validate_type' => 'none',
    'validate_fail' => 'not found',
    'break_phrase' => 0,
    'not' => 0,
    'id' => 'nid_target',
    'table' => 'heartbeat_activity',
    'field' => 'nid_target',
    'validate_user_argument_type' => 'uid',
    'validate_user_roles' => array(
      '2' => 0,
      '5' => 0,
      '7' => 0,
      '3' => 0,
      '6' => 0,
      '8' => 0,
      '4' => 0,
    ),
    'relationship' => 'none',
    'default_options_div_prefix' => '',
    'default_argument_fixed' => '',
    'default_argument_user' => 0,
    'default_argument_php' => '',
    'validate_argument_node_type' => array(
      'poll' => 0,
      'class' => 0,
      'class_assignment' => 0,
      'class_discussion' => 0,
      'class_event' => 0,
      'class_homework' => 0,
      'class_lecture' => 0,
      'discussion' => 0,
      'page' => 0,
      'profile' => 0,
      'story' => 0,
      'ws_submission' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_node_access' => 0,
    'validate_argument_nid_type' => 'nid',
    'validate_argument_vocabulary' => array(
      '2' => 0,
      '3' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_type' => 'tid',
    'validate_argument_transform' => 0,
    'validate_user_restrict_roles' => 0,
    'validate_argument_node_flag_name' => '*relationship*',
    'validate_argument_node_flag_test' => 'flaggable',
    'validate_argument_node_flag_id_type' => 'id',
    'validate_argument_user_flag_name' => '*relationship*',
    'validate_argument_user_flag_test' => 'flaggable',
    'validate_argument_user_flag_id_type' => 'id',
    'validate_argument_is_member' => 'OG_VIEWS_DO_NOT_VALIDATE_MEMBERSHIP',
    'validate_argument_group_node_type' => array(
      'class' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_php' => '',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('filters', array(
  'access_type' => array(
    'operator' => '=',
    'value' => array(
      'access' => 'OgHeartbeat',
      'value' => '',
      'min' => '',
      'max' => '',
    ),
    'group' => '0',
    'exposed' => FALSE,
    'expose' => array(
      'operator' => 'access_type_op',
      'label' => 'Heartbeat activity: Heartbeat user access',
      'use_operator' => FALSE,
      'identifier' => 'access_type',
      'remember' => FALSE,
      'single' => TRUE,
      'optional' => TRUE,
    ),
    'id' => 'access_type',
    'table' => 'heartbeat_activity',
    'field' => 'access_type',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('access', array(
  'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('cache', array(
  'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('style_plugin', 'table');
$handler->override_option('style_options', array(
  'grouping' => '',
  'override' => 1,
  'sticky' => 0,
  'order' => 'asc',
  'columns' => array(
    'message' => 'message',
    'timestamp' => 'timestamp',
  ),
  'info' => array(
    'message' => array(
      'separator' => '',
    ),
    'timestamp' => array(
      'sortable' => 0,
      'separator' => '',
    ),
  ),
  'default' => '-1',
));
$handler = $view->new_display('block', 'Class Heatbeat', 'block_1');
$handler->override_option('title', '%1 Activity');
$handler->override_option('empty', 'No activity for this class');
$handler->override_option('empty_format', '1');
$handler->override_option('use_ajax', TRUE);
$handler->override_option('use_pager', '1');
$handler->override_option('block_description', '');
$handler->override_option('block_caching', -1);

The view should create a block. You need to then go to the blocks page and place it where you wish.

And you actually created the message templates and proper rules? If you do that, it should work.

Good to hear! I started working on a pretty in-depth tutorial that I hope to finish soon. But, other projects have been demanding my time.