By jarea on

I brought this on myself, so I don't believe it is an error that should be reported as an issue under OG module, but hopefully I can get some help here.

Synopsis

Group Visibility Settings in Group Details Block in Blocks Module reads "No group types have been defined. Please define at least one group node type under administer >> settings >> og"

Group home page node type is set to "group" in Organic Group Configuration settings.

Background

I installed OG and associated modules and began to notice wierd behavior in OG_Galleries. After extended discussion with the author of OG_Galleries (http://drupal.org/node/83179) it appeared that my condition could not be replicated in a normal operating environment.

I created a sandbox installation (Install B), using same modules activating only core, OG modules and other required modules (Views, etc). The Sandbox worked perfectly. I next deactivated all non-OG modules in the other installation (Install A) and the problem persisted there. I confirmed all admin settings were identical yet problem continued.

I deactivated all OG modules in Install A, deleted module folders, dropped OG tables and reinstalled OG from the ground up including downloading all new tars for OG and repatching as had been necessary in the past. That probably wasn't too smart an idea, as I wound up with a really broken OG. I traced the problem to the fact that the reinstalled OG did not recreate the tables that I had dropped. Fortunately I discovered the Devel module and re-installed all of the OG modules using the reinstallation feature of Devel.

Current Situation

Now I have the following OG modules and tables installed in Install A and Install B:

og
og_actions
og_basic
og_block_visibility
og_calendar
og_forum
og_galleries
og_moderate

Tables
og
og_block_visibility
og_galleries
og_term
og_uid

In addition, table og_uid_global also is present in Install A, but not in Install B

Does anyone have any idea why Group Visibility Settings is not seeing 'group' as the selected group node type?

Thanks for your help - Jim

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jarea commented

Resolved

I love the saying "the solution, when it is found, will be simple"

After reinstalling with Devel, I had been so immersed in checking settings that I never tried to create a new group, and none of the old groups were present in the new OG data structure. I created a new group and the problem went away.

OG might consider a more informative error message than the one captioned above.