Basic OG Documentation

This documentation was put together (a little quickly :) ) for DrupalCamp Wisconsin 2009

Getting Started

Organic Groups depends on Messaging, Notifications and Views.

• admin/build/modules -- enable:
  • OG, OG Access Control, OG Actions, OG Groups Notifications, OG Views Integration
  • Messaging, Simple Mail, Simple messaging
  • Content notifications, Notifications, Notifications lite, Notifications views
  • Views, Views UI
• Configure OG
  • admin/og/og
  • admin/og/og_access
• Create a group type
• Create at least one content type that can be posted in a group

Enabling OG Blocks

• admin/build/block
  • Enable Group details, My Groups, and Group search

Create a New Home Page View

OG Home pages are generated by views.

• Any view that begins with og_ghp can be selected as a group home page at admin/og/og in the Group details fieldset
• The default group home page is at admin/build/views/edit/og_ghp_ron
  • NEVER edit the default views. Clone them!
• The default og_ghp_ron view can be cloned at admin/build/views/clone/og_ghp_ron

Next Steps

• Hide blocks when viewing a node that is connected to a group

  This PHP snippet, when placed in a block's page specific visibility settings, will display a block only on pages that are not connected with a group:

  <?php
  $group_node = og_get_group_context();
  return (empty($group_node));
?>
• Create additional views for the group homepage
  • Views Arguments are your friend