By terryallan on

This module is driving me crazy for some reason. I cannot find the group subscriber block and so nobody can subscribe to groups. Can anyone throw any light on why I am not seeing it? It is not available to be selected in administer/blocks.

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mjohnq3 commented

Subscription links appear in the Group details block.

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mjohnq3 commented

Subscription links appear in the Group details block.

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terryallan commented

Thanks for helping. I still, however, cannot find it. See screenshots

http://www.hifiloudspeakers.info/Group1.jpg

http://www.hifiloudspeakers.info/Group2.jpg

http://www.hifiloudspeakers.info/Group3.jpg

I must be missing something.

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mjohnq3 commented

I think your PHP code in the Page specific visibility settings section (shown in your Group1.jpg) is preventing the block from appearing. Try selecting Show on every page.... The block appears on nodes that have been created and saved as type Group. When you make a selection from the list of groups (as shown in your Group3.jpg) you'll see the block when the page (node) for that group loads.

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terryallan commented

I have now tried that but still no sign of the missing block or any way of registering for a group

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mjohnq3 commented

I'm afraid I don't have enough experience with Organic Groups to assist you any further. Hope someone else will join in this discussion.

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1. You don't need og_block_visibility module for the group details block; it's shown only on group pages automatically. So I'd uncheck the box to "show this block only on the following groups" which should remove the PHP in your visibility code.

2. Make sure you're using the most recent version of og_block_visibility; there were a few bugs that have recently been squashed in it. The most recent version (for 4.7) should say this at the top:

// $Id: og_block_visibility.module,v 1.1.2.10 2006/05/21 01:08:13 webchick Exp $

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terryallan commented

Thanks for the help.

Regarding
"1. You don't need og_block_visibility module for the group details block; it's shown only on group pages automatically. So I'd uncheck the box to "show this block only on the following groups" which should remove the PHP in your visibility code."
I had tried that but it didn't make any difference. It is good to know however that the group details block shouldn't require og_block_visibility.

I have been using
// $Id: og_block_visibility.module,v 1.11 2006/05/21 01:07:26 webchick Exp $
which looks to be an older version by a whisker. I will download the newer version today and see if that help.

Much appreciated.

Terry

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terryallan commented

webchick
Unfortunately I cannot find a download for this version. Can you help by pointing me in the right direction?
Thanks
Terry

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http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/og_block_visibility-4.7....

I'd also try disabling the module altogether and see if that fixes your problem. Always start with the basics when troubleshooting. If you have any other modules installed that could mess with the block settings, disable them as well (or possible disable everything _but_ OG module and a few core modules that you need to see if you have the same issue).

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terryallan commented

Thanks to everyone for their help. Unfortunately I have not taken one step forward despite having tried:

1 to strip every non-required module from the installation. I even re-installed og.

2 a complete new installation of drupal on another site.

I am clearly missing something. The problem is as stated in my first post.

I cannot find the group subscriber block and so nobody can subscribe to groups unless they subscribe when registering.

Has anyone any ideas?

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terryallan commented

I thought that I should provide some more information aboout the problem in case anyone wishes to and can help.

The following is from the readme.txt file from the og module. I indicate in italics which parts don't seem to work for me.

From readme.txt
INSTALLATION
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- Activate the og AND og_basic modules as usual. Activate Views.module in order to build custom listings of groups of nodes within groups.
- Visit the admin/settings/og page and click the button to enable access control.
- Set other preferences on admin/settings/og as desired.
- On the admin/settings/content-types/og page, disable commenting and attachments for nodes of type 'group'
- On the admin/block page, enable the 'Group details' with a low 'weight' value. Optionally enable the 'Group subscribers', 'New groups, 'My groups' blocks.
- Grant permissions as needed on the admin/access page
- Begin creating groups, subscribing to those groups, and posting into those groups. The subscribe link appears in the Group block, for non invite-only groups.

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smulkey commented

Hi All,

I'm guessing this is a dead issue for the original poster given it's two months old at this point, but I came across this thread on a site search and it perfectly describes the symptoms I was seeing on a brand new Drupal install with nothing but the og and og_visibility modules installed.

For me the problem turned out to be not turning on block content for groups here: http:///drupal/?q=admin/block. It's a noobie mistake and likely not even the root cause of the problem prompting this thread, but hopefully posting my solution here might save some time for anyone who stumbles across this archive looking up a similar problem.

-SPM

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schildi commented

Sorry, what do you mean with that. In admin/blocks I see activated
* Group Details
* Group notifications
* My groups
* group authors

"New Groups" is desabled.

Am I missing somewhat?

regards

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mill0234 commented

I'm having the same problem. I cannot get the group details block to show. I have it enabled but it does not show when i click on a group....

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lowVocal commented

Have you discovered the solution?I hope you have by now. I have the same problem and cannot find the answer.

Thanks.

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emilyf commented

I am also having this problem and have gone through the installation instructions a million times. I can create groups, but no where is there an option to subscribe to a group. I am using 4.7.

Emily

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crashwebster commented

I had the same problem and it turned out that I simply had not enabled the proper group menu blocks

Click Administer - Blocks and then enable all the blocks that relate to groups.

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emilyf commented

Thanks, you are right. Both groups detail and the groups list boxes have to be available. The install readme said just to enable the group detail box, so i would recommend that this get included there as well for the future...thanks much for your help.

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ebob-1 commented

When logged in as administrator, I get a no such page error when I try to go to q=admin/access. I can go to q=admin/user/access, so I trust that is the right thing to do.