Two questions:

1. Is it possible to subscribe to a group without becoming a member?

I want to have Departments as groups, and let any authenticated users subscribe to group so they can receive notifications on any new posts in that group, but I don't want them to be able to post to that group. I only want staff to be able to post in the department groups.

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#10 2009.10.12-og_notifications.module.patch1.25 KBrewe
#6 non-member view - subscription options12.72 KBgmclelland
#6 member view - subscription options18.48 KBgmclelland

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gmclelland commented

I am trying to build a city's website and I have public facing department groups(like the Planning Dept or Economic Development Dept). I would like citizens to be able to subscribe to the groups, but not be able to post anything. That way the citizen can receive the email notifications when content is added to the department group.

I also have groups where I do want the citizen to be able to post content into, like the Citizens Police Academy Group.

So there are two types of content types, department groups and focus groups.

So how would I allow the citizen to subscribe to the department groups to receive email notifications, but not be able to post into the department groups but still be able to post content into the focus groups?

-Glenn

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gmclelland commented

Maybe you could change organic groups - notifications modules to allow non-members to subscribe to public/open groups?

What do you think?

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moshe weitzman commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)
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gmclelland commented

Would you happen to know what issue number this is a duplicate of?

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petednz commented

Any reason you need the public subscribe to be a Group rather than just 'subscribe' to eg a taxonomy term?

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gmclelland commented
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new member view - subscription options18.48 KB
new non-member view - subscription options12.72 KB

I just want non-members (who are also authenticated users) to have the same subscription options as the members for public/open groups. (see attachments)

  • It allows people to follow a group without joining or becoming affiliated with that group
  • It then basically becomes a read-only group to non-members
  • If non-members decide they are interested in that groups content then they can choose to join the group and become members so they are allowed to participate by posting to the group.
  • Serves as a way to help encourage people to register on your site - Ex. "Signup to follow this groups dicussions and receive email updates when new content is posted"

What do think?

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petednz commented

I think you can set Notifications/Messaging to operate on OG content - so they get the benefits you are describing.

Enabled subscription types

Content type in group. Subscribe to specific content within a group.
Tags. Subscribe to content tagged with a given taxonomy term.
Thread. Subscribe to all changes and comments for a thread.
Content type. Subscribe to all content of a given type.
Author. Subscribe to all content submitted by a user.
Content type and Author. Subscribe to all content of a given type submitted by a user.
Define the available subscription types that will be enabled globally
Group subscriptions
Allowed content types:
Ranking poll
Group page
Group event

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gmclelland commented

I have those checked, am I missing something?

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rewe commented

gmclelland,

same problem here - have you been able to find an easy way out of this?

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rewe commented
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new 2009.10.12-og_notifications.module.patch1.25 KB

have a look at the attached patch - very simple, does the trick for me ..

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digidoo commented

subscribe