Site walkthough for a OG2List site.

Last updated on
30 April 2025

Required Modules

Core modules to be enabled

  • taxonomy
  • forum
  • comment

Contributed modules to be installed and enabled

  • OG
  • OG2List
    • gjg_group_tabs
    • og_forum
  • MailCommand
  • event
    • basicevent
  • comment_mover
  • AJAX

Demo Script:


  1. Create a group
    1. Visit the demo site and log in as the user provided to you or create an
      account by the usual means.

    2. Click the "Create a Group" link in the header.
    3. Enter a group name and email address, and fill out the rest of the form
      with pertinent values.
    4. Click on "View Groups"
    5. Click on your group
    6. Click on "members", "messages" tabs to see the function-ability.
  2. Adding people
    1. Click the "invite friends" link on the "home" tab to invite users to the
      group via email.
    2. You can also subscribe users to a group by sending "subscribe <group
      name> <friends email>" in the subject or body of an email to
      administration@<testsite>.com
  3. Making a post
    1. Click on the "messages" tab.
    2. Click on "create new forum topic"
    3. Enter title and body for topic and select the "General Discussion" forum
      in the drop-down.

    4. Press submit.
  4. Responding via email
    1. Go to the GMail account (the user provided to you) and open the message
      that was just created.

    2. Reply to the message, and press Send.
    3. Note the message appears as a comment to the original post within 2
      minutes.
  5. Email Commands

    1. Send a message to administration@demo-site.com with help in the subject.
    2. MailCommand will email back with a list of options within 2min.
    3. --expand--
  6. Moving comments (as administrator)
    1. Go back to the Community Messages tab and click on the node with the
      comment you just created
    2. Click on the "move" link below the comment.
    3. Click the "Create forum post" checkbox and Submit.
    4. Note the comment is moved to a new node.
    5. In this new node click the "move" tab above the node title.
    6. In the "Move below other post:" box, enter the name of the original
      post, noting that AJAX will auto-fill the data for you.

    7. Submit and note that the node has been returned to the original thread.

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