Hi, just wondering how difficult it would be to integrate mysite with OG?? A user could select to follow the groups he subscribed to in his mysite page? That way the user could read all of hois latest posts in the groups all in the same place??

Any ideas how difficult this would be to implement?

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Respecting OG access rules for a) other people seeing that content in your collection or b) allowing group members to edit a common MySite page are quite difficult. See http://groups.drupal.org/node/4945 for a little bit of discussion.

Using the API to create an OG type include that pulls back posts by group? Rather trivial. Maybe 30 minutes.

I simply don't have time to write it (nor do I have a good OG implementation to test against). My task is to support Drupal core.

Of the top of my head, I think that book.inc is likely the closest parallel to OG nodes. Looking at http://therickards.com/api/file/plugins/types/book.inc/MySite, there 7 required functions (the search functions are optional).

The tutorial at http://drupal.org/node/119583 should walk you through the process.

I'd love to see someone tackle this and post the process in the new group: http://groups.drupal.org/mysite

Marking "won't fix" since I won't take this on. if someone else takes it, change the status.

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A change and a note.

Marking "by design" since this is supported by the existing API.

I think this plugin would be very popular, as lots of people use OG.

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See also http://drupal.org/node/147970. Maybe you can collaborate.