I have allowed authenticated users to administer groups in access control, but it just doesn't show up when they click 'create content'.

It works fine for admins...

Does anyone know what I am getting wrong?

Many thanks in advance.

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1. Create a node type and name the machine type "group"
2. In the OG admin page, select that node type to be a group homepage
3. give permissions to users to create that node type

This is written in the documentation, I think.

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I have been searching for the same thing. The explanation given here (copied below) still confuses me, as I can't find how to create a node type. Is this something done within the admin menus or does it have to be hardcoded? I'd be very grateful if someone would help me.

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1. Create a node type and name the machine type "group"
2. In the OG admin page, select that node type to be a group homepage
3. give permissions to users to create that node type

This is written in the documentation, I think.

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mightyiam CreditAttribution: mightyiam commented

In Drupal there are content types. admin/content/types is the place to go. Anyway, here are the instructions from modules/og/readme.txt:

INSTALLATION
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- If not already active, enable the Views and Views_RSS modules. These are now prerequisites.
- Enable the og module.
- Visit the admin/og/og page. If you want to protect some posts so that only certain users may view them, then click the button to enable access control.
- On admin/og/og, see the 'Group home page node types' field at bottom. You usually want to create a new node type via admin/content/types page and then select that node type here. See the first item in NOTES below.
- Set other preferences on admin/og/og as desired. It may take some experimenting before you arrive at a configuration weil suited to your needs.
- On the admin/content/types/og page, disable comments and attachments for node types which are designated as groups
- On the admin/build/themes/settings pages, in 'Display post information on' section, uncheck each node type which has been designated as a group.
- On the admin/block page, enable the 'Group details' with a low 'weight' value. Optionally enable the 'Group authors', 'Group notifications', '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 details block, for non invite-only groups.
- Consider enabling the following modules which work well with OG: Pathauto, Locale. After your install is working nicely, consider enabling og add-on modules like og_mandatory_group, og_vocab, etc.

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Hello, I am having the same problem with Authenticated users not being able to create Groups even though they have access to create the Node Type that I specified for the groups.

I also noticed that the response to this posting said that the Node Type for Groups should be called "group". However, the instructions in readme.txt do not specificy this. They only say there should be a special node type created only for groups, which I have done.

Any ideas?