wouldn't it be great if we could have more than one Home page per group? i mean, select the primary one, wich displays, for example, story nodes (may be used as a blog for the group), and asign another homepage (og_ghp view) that displays other content type (can be a custon one with cck), let's say "news". And with this, have a menu, that links to those diferent "homepages". The result would be that each group would have its own "navigation menu".
What's the point in this? supose you have asigned several content types for the groups to create, the only way of displaying them (with the current version) is to include them into the view that is used as group home page. with multiple group home pages, we could create diferent views, each for a content type, and that way have "sections" inside our group.
i've been working around this for a while now, tried to achive this configuration, i tried using exposed filters for the og_ghp view that filters by taxonomies but this doesn´t create an actual menu, it shows a select box in wich are listed all the content tipes of the site, not just those asigned to the groups, and you have to chose the tpe from the box and then click the "submit" button in order to get to the "section you want.
The other solution is ver "hackish", it's by using an experimental module og_context_tracker (http://drupal.org/node/66145). this module preserves the group context from the moment you enter a group to the moment you enter another group. with this you coudl use views filtering by content type and by "post in current group" because the context is not lost when you go the the view, but as i said it's not a nice solution, in bring a lot of non-desired behaviour.
I hope i made my point, and this features would be considered for future versions
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Comment #1
moshe weitzman commentedmy intent is to support this when i add panels2 integration. lets discuss at http://drupal.org/node/168036
Comment #2
psi-borg commentedis there a way to automatically make the OG group home page for the OG the user selected - their home page?