By murray@math.umass.edu on

As a newbie Drupal administrator, I created a group for which I am administrator. Can somebody please tell me, step-by-step, what I need to do in order to add an existing site user to that group?

I've been going back-and-forth, back-and-forth all over the place between the home page for the group in question and the Administer> Users sections, and I just don't see how to do this.

Please don't tell me things like, "If the relevant permissions are set." Please tell me WHAT I need to do and WHERE I do it -- assume nothing!

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drawk commented

How did you create this group? Through a third-party module like Organic Groups?

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murray@math.umass.edu commented

Yes, I created the group using Organic Groups. In more detail, what I did was this:

Menu Administer > Create Content > Group.

On the Submit Group page I specified the group name, description, mission statement. For "Membership requests" I selected "closed". I left unchecked "registration form" but checked "list in groups directory".

And, of course -- although I hesitate to say "of course" about any interaction I have with Drupal -- I clicked the Submit button.

If now, still logged in as site administrator, I go to the home page for that group, I see no place there to add users.

And if I got to Administer > User management and click a user's name there, I don't see any place on the resulting User account page to add the user to any groups. Likewise, if I click the operations "Edit" link for that user, I don't see any place on the resulting User Account page to add him, either.

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murray@math.umass.edu commented

I finally figured it out, and it wasn't easy...

CASE 1: The group was created before I set up accounts for the users who will belong to the group.

  1. I had to go back, Edit the group, and make sure now to check the "registration form" box. I hadn't done that when I originally created the group, as the description for that item suggested to me it referred to a registration form that would be need only if a user herself wanted to join the group. But as I, as admin, was the one enrolling users in the group, I didn't think that was needed. It was!
  2. Then as I set up an account for each user, I was presented near the bottom of the page with the option to check which groups the user was to belong to.

CASE 2: The group is created after users already have site accounts. This was the really tricky part. After many, many tries & stumbles & clicking around until I thought my hand would fall off my wrist... I go to the Groups Directory page, locate the group in question there, and click the number of members for that group. That link brings me to the page where I can add members to the group.

The epiphany here was that I could click on the number of members (as well as any of the other fields of that group's record in the directory). Surely there should be a less obscure route to doing this!

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migs87 commented

dear murrayE,
I totally agree with you that it is a complicated matter.
It's also not possible to add a member to a group quickly by pressing something like subscribe to group from his profile page.

In my case: I only manage to add users by parsing the link: og/approve/[group_id]/[user_id]?destination=og/users/[group_id]
Even if I am at the "number of members"-page I only see which users are member, but I cant see an add user button.
So my question for you is: is the add user button an Tab item? If it is, I know where my problem lies.
Could you also send me the url of where the add-user button takes you?

Thank you in advance!

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Apfel007 commented

I've same problem. I can't see the number of users..

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edvanleeuwen
Primary language Dutch
Location Waalwijk
commented

Does userplus help?

Best regards,

Ed

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ahabman commented

Yes, userplus is a godsend for Organic Groups user administration.

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lyosef commented

Hi, I see that this has still not been responded to; won't you please send the URL of the tab (or link) to add users to a group. Also, will those who have solved this problem please share how they did so (details welcome).