I was so excited to have GFC in drupal for my new drupal site as I don't want to bother users to create new profiles on my site again and again. So I installed GFC in my site but so far it has been a frustrating experience. I don't know if there is something wrong with my job or GFC itself is problematic!

Here are my problems and questions:

1. GFC claims it integrates with the site and existing google/yahoo/orkut/etc accounts can be used to 'join' the site. As far as I understand, 'joining' GFC in any drupal site and creating account [except GFC] in that drupal site are the same... Am I right?

If I'm right, then after logging in to drupal site using GFC, one should ideally be able to post on forums and comments, isn't it? But it has not been the case. Logged in GFC member can't post on forum. Somehow they can REPLY to comments [not in forum, in pages/blogs]. Neither they can manage newsletter subscriptions or any other tasks that requires drupal site account login.

If it's the case, what's the point of having GFC ? Just to use it to rate the page, shout in shoutbox etc...?

2. There is a drupal plugin for GFC that requires unique GFC ID while setup. To me, that indicates that they are trying to unify drupal site account with GFC member accounts. Otherwise, we can simply paste GFC code in drupal site and use it without any module whatsoever [if I don't wanna integrate]

Please let me know if my thoughts make sense.

Thanks

Jakuas

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sulario commented

Another question:

If GFC accounts are integrated with host site, should the GFC members be seen in the 'authenticated users' list in admin?

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faunapolis commented
Title: Google friendconnect NOT integrating properly with Drupal? » @sulario: Google friendconnect NOT integrating properly with Drupal?
Issue tags: +facebook, +friend connect, +open social, +social, +google connect, +drupal social

I am interested in this as well. The Facebook connect module does something similar to what you are asking. It validates facebook accounts against a single drupal account and you can assign roles and permissions to those users who end up in your 'list'.

I don't know if this is something that is planned for this module or if it will only stay at the comment level. I think I asked for this feature.

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playfulwolf commented

+1

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Title: @sulario: Google friendconnect NOT integrating properly with Drupal? » Google friendconnect NOT integrating properly with Drupal?
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jafar104 commented

I think Google has a solution for this now? http://code.google.com/p/google-friend-connect-plugins/wiki/DrupalPlugin

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hankpalan.com commented

@jafar104 Did you try their method yet? Did it work for you?

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This is the same version as the one hosted on code.google.com.

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vacilando commented

Indeed, this module is planned to be a successor of that Google Code module. See at #468062: What's the difference from the Google Code Drupal module?.

Still hoping it will happen very soon and that Google Friend Connect will become like -- and better than -- Facebook Connect. Wish I could help -- but this is far from my areas of expertise. But I'll be happy to provide testing results and feedback once there is a more usable version.

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Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

It's still not exactly clear what exactly you want to happen in terms of Drupal and code terminology. It sounds like you don't have any of the desired permissions enabled for the 'authenticated user' role. Please be more specific or detailed. Saying 'Be more like FacebookConnect' is not helpful at all.

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vacilando commented

@Dave -- apologies for not being clear enough. Indeed, "be more like Facebook Connect" presupposed that you knew that module.

For me Facebook Connect works like a charm in terms of logging me into any of my Drupal websites automatically as long as I am logged into Facebook. The problem is that I don't like Facebook and I certainly don't like being logged into it all the time. OpenID, at least in D6, unfortunately does not work that well either (several eternal issue queues at d.o. -- and no, I cannot easily help with those).

So I have been searching for a way to authenticate to Drupal using Google, to which I don't mind being logged in all the time as I am using it for countless other things. As soon as Google announced Friend Connect I knew this could be used as a key for logging into Drupal instead of Facebook Connect and OpenID. Then I found the Drupal module developed at Google, which works fine -- one can post comments immediately if logged into Google -- but it does not provide a button on the Drupal login page. Compare the the Google Drupal module demo page with the Facebook Connect demo page. This is what me and many other people mean (I believe) when we ask for "be more like Facebook Connect".

The next step would of course be the ability of actually creating a Drupal account if there is no existing account linked to the Google user that is logging in (something that still does not work with OpenID either).

I hope it is cleared now. Can you please let us know what is the roadmap for this module, esp. whether you plan to achieve easy login to Drupal (and hopefully also account creation) for Google users using this module, or whether you have other plans and people should look elsewhere for this functionality. Thank you.

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FranciscoLuz commented

See this thread here http://drupal.org/node/1245548 . It has answers for both D6 and D7