Define 'Argument' in 'Views'

deleted

I had two aims:

1) Have different messages on the group homepage depending on if the user is a member or not in the group.

2) Show a link to a View listing all posts of a specific content type, if the content type is used in the group.

I am using Organic Groups and Content Type Administration by Organic Group: http://drupal.org/project/og_content_type_admin

1) I have a simple content type for OG called 'group', which is the homepage for each group. I created 3 CCK fields:
field_text_member (text field for members)
field_text_non_member (text field for non-members)
field_diff_message_non_members (Check boxes/radio buttons, with the values: 'No - same message for everyone' or 'Yes - special message for non-members')

All display options for all 3 fields were chosen to 'Hidden', since I will print them out in the override instead.

I did the 'group' display override as explained above: http://drupal.org/node/214340#comment-706607
Before 'print $content' in 'node-group.tpl.php' I inserted the following code:

    $current_group = $node->nid;
    global $user; 
    if ($user->og_groups[$current_group]['nid'] == $current_group) {  //if user is member of current group
          print $node->field_text_member[0]['value']; 
       }
    elseif ($field_diff_message_non_members[0]['value'] == 'No - same message for everyone') {  //If user non-member and same message display
      print $node->field_text_member[0]['value']; 
      }
    elseif ($field_diff_message_non_members[0]['value'] == 'Yes - special message for non-members') {  //If user non-member and different message display
      print $node->field_text_non_member[0]['value']; 
      }

2) I have done a 'View' for each content type that will list all submitted posts in the current group for that specific content type. The url is: 'node/$group/ContentTypeExample', where $group is the current group. I then want to show a link to this View if the group manager has decided to activate the content type in the group (otherwise there will not be any posts of that content type in the group).
Here is how I did it: http://drupal.org/node/229327#comment-764969

Another way to do this would be to check if the View contains any posts, if it contains posts then print a link to the View.

//load the view by name
$view = views_get_view('ContentTypeExample');
$current_view = views_build_view('embed', $view, array($title), false, 6);

 $current_group = $node->nid;
//check if current_view is empty
if (!empty($current_view)) {
print '<a href="example/node/' .$current_group. '/ContentTypeExample">Link to the View ContentTypeExample</a>';
}

Hope that helps, if someone is interested....
/Seth