ARCHIVE: Organic Groups CiviCRM: Integrate groups with CiviCRM

As of CiviCRM 1.9, og_civicrm is now obsolete.

Instead, CiviCRM 1.9 bundles a module called CiviCRM OG Sync. It does pretty much everything that og_civicrm used to do, and integrates with CiviCRM's ACL system as well. This is usually what you want. I'm using it on a large site, and with some modifications to get it to scale better, it's working well.

There are still some scaling issues in current builds of 1.9 -- particularly if you have people who administer large numbers of groups -- but I suspect that these will get ground out in the next couple of releases.

Rob Thorne
Torenware Networks
http://www.torenware.com
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The OG_CiviCRM module integrates organic groups with CiviCRM groups. This is useful for groups that form organically on the web but need to be tracked for an organization. Once the group of web users are in CiviCRM they can used to do mailings, track address information, apply tags, and track activities of the members.

The module creates a new CiviCRM group for each new OG and use the module to keeps track. The groups are kept synchronized. If a user is subscribed to a group via Drupal's UI, then the user has already been subscribed on the Drupal side, and we will need to subscribe the user on the CRM side here as well. If an organic group is deleted the CiviCRM group is deleted. This module works with CiviCRM 1.4.

You can:

• read the CiviCRM module handbook page.
• read the organic groups module handbook page.
• not administer this module.