Subscriber Pictures & Create link in OG Panels

1) I think this is going to require some custom code. Not sure immediately about how best to do this.

2) I think you will have to contruct this link yourself. You can call og_get_group_context() in order to learn all about the current group. The 'nid' element is the one used at the end of those create links.

I'm curious about what you have working well and other stumbling blocks you have overcome. Are you using the new og_panels module?

Hi WISEOZ - I'd keep my eye on og_panels.module as moshe pointed out, which should be moving towards a stable version sometime in the near-ish future. It either does, or will, encompass most of the functionality you described in your OP:

1. This is actually one that's fairly high on my own priority list - ideally, you'll be able to add a pane that lists group members, and via the nice panels GUI, will be able to control things like - whether user names or pictures are used, or both; a size that images should be resized to (this is iffy, I'll figure out if this is feasible as I go); how many members should be displayed, etc.

2. This is a little tougher to facilitate via a GUI because of the way that block is constructed. Constructing the link yourself is the easiest way, as Moshe points out. However, as we get together more og-specific panel content, you'll be able to approximate this sort of goal more and more easily.

1. Yes, this is crucial. Patches welcome.

2. I think we should make a content item called 'Create links' and in the options an admin can pick and choose which he wants in the list. A one item list would be a very valid use case.

The way to do the user picture resize is to have admin pick an imagecache preset that should be shown. See http://www.lullabot.com/articles/imagecache_example_user_profile_pictures and a module which purports to do same: http://drupal.org/project/imagecache_profiles. This is icing though. We need the basic content item urgently.

I'd been working on something similar. Where I was going was a patch that would turn og_user_title_list into a theme function thereby rendering it subject to being overridden. The issue I'm running into is wanting user pictures themed a particular way in the OG subscribers block and differently elsewhere and so as a start making the list function so that I could override it and then easily call an overridden theme_user_picture.

It seems it would be possible to then add an array element to the theme_og_title_list function that will take additional items an admin wants to render in the subscriber block.

Does that seem like a reasonable place to start?

I recently added a content item called Faces to og_panels which has a nice tight presentation of faces. You can customize the number of rows and columns. An example is at bottom of http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-dojo.

I'll leave this open for the create links.

Sorry Moshe, I totally missed your initial response to my post here last month. I really like that line-by-line content type idea - once I actually finish off this enormous overhaul of og_blueprints, I'll put some time in on that (and the other content types I've been talking about).

Re: #8, is it possible to add the Faces content item to a Panels page? For example, I have one panels page set up to replace the default Groups home page. I'm trying to give every Group home page the Faces content item. It seems that right now I'd have to create a Faces panel for each group one by one.

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After looking at the og.module (line 956), I was able to achieve what I was looking for in #10 using a custom php snippet.

$gid = og_get_group_context()->nid;
echo og_list_users_faces_page($gid, $column_count = 5, $row_count = 10, $pager_id = 0);

Re #3 above, the beta avatar 2 module generates an SQL error with the OG module. See http://drupal.org/node/272091.

This is very helpful for me.

This is not a fix to this issue per se. Rather it's a patch for how I accomplished this sort of thing. As this is handled by Views in the 6.x version of OG... This particular patch won't work for anybody else as it has some SQL related to my database but it may serve as a model if somebody need to have more flexibility. This patch replaces og_user_title_list($result, $gid = NULL, $show_more = TRUE, $show_picture = NULL) with theme_og_user_title_list($result, $gid = NULL, $show_more = TRUE, $show_picture = NULL) so it is then possible to re-theme the block in a function specific to the site.

I don't plan to re-work this into a more general solution unless there is further discussion here that it would be widely useful.

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