By sunescan on

Hello,

because the no portation of OG PANELS in Drupal 6,

anyone knows how can I do to do the same with other modules??

Thanks!

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gpk commented

Short answer: no.

Middle answer: Use 5.x.

Long answer - if you want to use 6.x:
- first question is, what are your timescales? OG is not so far from release; Panels is only at alpha release but now that Views is out, merlinofchaos may have more time to focus on Panels. TBH if you want *really* stable code then wait at least a couple of months after first release...
- 2nd question: exactly which functionality do you need? If you only want a small subset of their functionality then you might be able to cook it with a combination of modules plus some custom code ... but this may not give you a very good upgrade path in the future.

HTH

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sunescan commented

Thankyou very much!

The question of change to D5 is in my mind, but will be wonderful if I could do this in D6.

The functionality that I need is simple, I only would to fix a "homepage" for each group (the same that I can do with the general homepage of my site in "http://mysite/drupal/admin/settings/site-information", but one for each group).

Thank you one more time!

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gpk commented

If you want the "groups" functionality that OG offers then probably best to stick with it. You may be able to cook a reasonable group home page layout just by defining the regions you need in your theme and by customising the normal page template (e.g. using page-group.tpl.php or whatever as the page template). Getting a node to display in a block is not that hard and I think there are modules to do this.

Then when Panels comes online probably pretty easy to revamp the groups home page layout. You could even use 5.x for prototyping - probably easier to experiment with different layouts using Panels, and then code them up in page-group.tpl.php.

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