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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Organic Groups (OG)

This guide/tutorial is aimed at the absolute beginner Organic Group user. It is assumed that you are familiar with installing modules and creating and managing content.
Note: This tutorial contains some instruction on Drupal 7.x version of Organic Group, however, the majority of the content is around Drupal 6.x. If you are using Drupal 7.x, check the list on the right panel for Drupal 7.x.

Guide Scenario
You are in charge of a Sports Club's Drupal site. You have been requested to create organic groups for each sport represented at the club.

  • The groups allow for any authenticated member to join a group
  • We will create one group for soccer

Preconditions for completing this scenario

  • You have installed Organic Groups, CCK, Views, notifications modules (Drupal 6 only)
  • Recommended: Create a test user to see user interaction with the group

Where does this tutorial begin?

  • You have installed the modules but haven't configured Organic Groups yet.

Section 1 - Setting up Organic Groups

Create Group Content type

Section 2 - Setting up Blocks to manage your groups

Organic Groups blocks are provided to manage the group, such as:

Section 3 - Create your Organic Group

D7:

Section 4 - Enable content to be used by your groups

Allocate content types to allow you to post content to your newly created group by doing the following:

Section 5 - Posting content to your group

We are going to create a page to let the group know about some Soccer Group communication.

Section 6 - Organic Group Tips

Some tips on using your group are effectively:

Guide maintainers

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