Struggling to create a view to return posts based on logged in users membership [#486904]

I have a selection of groups (Organisations).
In each group are a number of "centres".
Each centre will have some "course" content associated with it. To do this I have a node reference to the centre content from the course content. When a member of a group adds a course, I want only the list of centres that are in their groups to appear.

I am trying to make a view to achieve this. but am struggling to link the logged in user (argument ?) to the posts (centres) in a node. I also want if the site admin is logged in, he will see all "centres".

Any help would be appreciated. I'll sleep on it anyway.

Comments

Comment #1

exobuzz commented 9 June 2009 at 23:50

I;ve got this working, but I wonder if this is the right way to to things ?

First of all I wonder if a node reference is the best way of linking this data. Should I be using some hierarchy module ?

to get this to work I made a "node view" with

Relatioship:
Organic groups: Group node (post) (required)
Filter:
Node: Type = Centre
Argument:
(Group node (post)) Organic groups: Member of a group
with a default value of logged in user, but wiht php validation with some code

global $user;
if (in_array('administrator',$user->roles) or in_array('site editor',$user->roles)) {
  return false;
} else {
  return true;
}

and if it doesn't validate then "show all values".

I then use this view for the node reference. Does seem a bit of a hacky way to do it though. Would be nice if with user stuff it could be "or is a member of some role" type logic.

Comment #2

exobuzz commented 12 June 2009 at 12:28

I have another problem now in that if someone is a member of more than one group, they could technically post a course to "group A" for a centre that is in "group b". If i could have it so that when they select the group when "adding content", it refreshed the page, so that I can then display only the centres for the currently selected group.

If anyone could help me with this it would be most appreciated.