Document how to make groups private

You can Administer the Group Roles and Permissions - here is a short video on the subject :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIStVv_RYl8

Also of note Drupal Commons does not install by default with this enabled.

First you should enable the Commons Group Privacy module and its dependent module Organic Groups Access Control.
Be sure to rebuild your permissions at /admin/reports/status/rebuild
You should then be able to switch group visibility on the Ads and Edit Group pages.
Also for additional flexibility you may fine tune the group specific roles and permissions, even allowing group admins the ability to maintain their groups owns specific permissions.

I am not a maintainer on this distribution, however I am switching this to feature requests based on the comment in #4, making the above changes to the Group Privacy Module would require their attention, I am however glad that you were able to resolve your issue.

I think that Commons will be more likely Open Atrium with 3 standard presets by default to make this easier for group admins:

1. Public Group - open membership & public content (now by default)
2. Moderated Group - moderated membership & public content
3. Private Group - moderated or invitation membership & privat content

Thanks and regards

However, from what I can see it's completely impossible to make a private group until you add a new OG field.

This was a bug that was fixed and will be included in the 3.1 release: #1936446: Group content visibility field not added to OG-enabled content types after enabled Commons Groups Privacy.

The Acquia documentation team is currently working to improve documentation around private groups and we should have an update in approximately the next week.

I'll mark this issue as fixed once that's done.

Hi,

I also can't figure out how to make a group private and therefor all content within that group only shown to the groupmembers.
Trying #3 but got: Field Group visibility already exists in Group.
Looking forward to the documentation!

EDIT: may be this is also handy documentation: http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/20116/how-to-make-a-og-private
Edit2: This is the specific field: admin/structure/types/manage/group/fields/group_access

Greetings, Martijn

Thanks for the comments on installing OG Content Access (http://drupal.org/project/content_access). After installing, all group content on the homepage for anonymous users was removed, exactly what I needed. I have all my permissions for anonymous un-checked also.

The only thing still showing on the commons home page for anonymous users is the "View: Commons Activity Streams - Activity (Site-wide): Activity (Sidebar)". I've tried a number of things but so far have not been able to remove it only for anonymous users, any guidance would be appreciated. The view doesn't seem to be following any permissions or access restrictions.

Got it removed, found it under Structure > Pages > Home > Variants » Home (anonymous) > Content. Disabled the content panes I did not want.

Also on Structure > Pages > Activity > Settings > Access, needed to add "User: permission Logged in user has "View published content" to kill the activity page for anonymous.

Hope that's it, not sure these are the best methods but they seem to accomplish what I needed for a true private commons and groups.

I was able to find up-to-date documentation on creating private groups in the Commons documentation on Acquia's site. Specifically, there is a page on "Managing group privacy settings." An Acquia account is required to read the full documentation, but creating an account is free. If anyone with access to edit the Acquia page reads this, the page above mentions the module's name as "Organic group access control" several times, but it's actually "Organic groups access control".

Also, for what it's worth, according to the commons_groups.install file, the Commons Group Privacy module has been deprecated.

We've updated the Commons documentation per your spelling feedback. Thanks, Matt V.!

Hi everyone,

We're facing an issue with the group privacy settings. I had to update dans downgrade several times our modules and recently since the lastest patch came out we upadated to the newest patch. Thus, our privacy group permission doesn't work, and the content that should be hidden is still visible to all users.

Few major info: we updated to Flag-3, no problem using the privacy setting since we downgraded it last week, during the lastest update.

Also, we create added our basic user, as to be registered (signed in) if he's willing to enter the site. This might be in conflict with the privacy group settings that don't work properly, which once again are, content visible to all user when hidden box is check whilecreating a group.

If you have any solution for us,

Should you need more information from us,

Regards,

Hi everyone,

Someone can tell me, how can i make a private group with this characteristics?

-only group members can see the content
-only group member can follow the group (less important)
-only group member can create content
-no member can make an access request