Integration with Organic Groups

I'll show my ignorance here and say that I haven't played with Organic Groups at all so I don't really know what it does.

Reading through the project page the differences between the two modules seem to be that UR is meant for more interpersonal relationships 1-1 whereas OG is 1-many or many-many. How might the two modules serve each other?

First, I still haven't been able to use OG for anything and so still know little to nothing about it. This fact makes it difficult to follow along.

I can, however, respond to the idea of changing the UserRelationships module. Needing to modify UR-UI to support OG would require checking for the use of OG and OG-UR from within UR-UI. This goes against my core goals for this project. I'll go in to why and how it can be circumvented.

My goal is to never need to use Drupal's "module_exists" function. It's far too hack-ie for my tastes. It creates "magic" within the module that uses it. Site admins and builders should have full control over and knowledge of which modules are installed and what their purpose is. This is why I've built UR as an API with many plugins adding functionality. Each plugin does only what it advertises, nothing more, nothing less. If one wishes to connect UR to another module it should be entirely contained within a plugin built to that purpose.

So, using OG-UR as an example. There might be two new plugins, one to handle the API stuff and one for UI. UR-UI should have points of access that allow modifications from other modules. If this isn't the case for certain situation we can remedy that by creating new entry points that will give OG-UR (as well as other modules) the ability to modify content being displayed.

Jon, are you available via IM or IRC? I'm still having trouble understanding the purpose of this project and I think trying to understand through email or the issue tracker will take far too long.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Thinking about it now, I wonder if we were thinking along different conceptual lines. I consider UR user-to-user specific. Friends may all know each other and be considered part of a group, but UR was only meant to handle the connections between the individual users.

I'm going to consider this issue closed. Feel free to re-open it if you think otherwise.

This one is an old issue but I didnt want to open same issue with a different title.

I am using both UR and OG. And if I could invite my "friends" to a "group", it would be fantastic. If you know Facebook, you know what I mean: When you are in a group you can choose to invite some of your friends from a list by checking them.

In OG, currently you can invite users to a group by entering each name (or e-mail address) separated with a comma to a text field. So I am thinking of a scenario like this:

1. You click invite friends link on a group page.
2. The list of all your friends come with a checkbox for each of them.
(There would also be the usual textfield to invite non-friend users)
3. You check the desired friends and click on an "invite" button.
4. Invitation is sent as usual.

Is it hard to do it? I am going to post this one also to OG issue page.

Cheers,

Sinan

Double post.. Sorry...

@etcetera9: Sounds very reasonable!

It's not hard to do, looks like a job for a small module gluing the two. However, I haven't had any plans for such a feature, unfortunately.

Hope you don't mind me reviving this old thread, but what etcetera mentioned in #8 is exactly what I am trying to accomplish now with UR and OG (a customized invite page that uses user relationships and checkboxes to send invites to friends), and I feel like I am pretty close through using:

Views
Views Bulk Operations
Views Send

I have another thread here under OG, but wanted to bring this idea to those using User Relationships as well for ideas -> http://drupal.org/node/1070734

The test view I have created so far, which exists in a group context does these things right:
Displays only my friends
Displays this view in the group context, so I have all the group controls available on this page
Displays checkboxes for my UR friend list to perform an operation (ie, send an email with an invite message)

It is failing with these things:
Displays only my friends who are currently IN the group. Needs to display friends who are NOT in the group. (problem with group argument?)

Sansui, did you try the option of "Exclude the argument" located on the bottom of the argument options?

I did eventually try that, and it does stop limiting the view. At this point I'm trying to filter my users to not include friends that are already in the group, but there don't seem to be any OG filters like this, so I'm investigating my options in creating a new handler

So far not much luck on filtering out users who already belong to the group, but I'm thinking Views Send is not the way to go, and it would be better to add an action similar to what's already available in the og_actions to use the og invite function.

SELECT DISTINCT(users.uid) AS uid,
   users.name AS users_name,
   user_relationship_types_user_relationships__user_relationships.rtid AS user_relationship_types_user_relationships__user_relationships_rtid,
   users.mail AS users_mail,
   user_relationship_types_user_relationships.plural_name AS user_relationship_types_user_relationships_plural_name
 FROM users users 
 LEFT JOIN user_relationships user_relationships ON users.uid = user_relationships.requestee_id
 LEFT JOIN users users_user_relationships ON user_relationships.requestee_id = users_user_relationships.uid
 LEFT JOIN users users_user_relationships_1 ON user_relationships.requester_id = users_user_relationships_1.uid
 LEFT JOIN user_relationship_types user_relationship_types_user_relationships ON user_relationships.rtid = user_relationship_types_user_relationships.rtid
 LEFT JOIN og_uid users_user_relationships__og_uid ON users_user_relationships.uid = users_user_relationships__og_uid.uid AND users_user_relationships__og_uid.nid = '115'
 LEFT JOIN og_uid og_uid ON users.uid = og_uid.uid
 LEFT JOIN user_relationships user_relationship_types_user_relationships__user_relationships ON user_relationship_types_user_relationships.rtid = user_relationship_types_user_relationships__user_relationships.rtid
 WHERE (user_relationships.approved = '1') AND (users_user_relationships__og_uid.nid IS NULL) AND (og_uid.nid != 115) AND (user_relationships.requester_id = 1)
 GROUP BY uid
 ORDER BY user_relationship_types_user_relationships_plural_name DESC

Using the group filter, which allows you to specify a member is not a member of a particular group, my query looks like this and achieves the results I want, by filtering for where users_user_relationships__og_uid.nid is null.

I am thinking there should be a way to pass the argument value to the group filter in the argument handling code

I'm using the group filter in OG, then changing it in a helper function in my custom site module.

function mymodulename_views_pre_view(&$view, &$display_id, &$args) {
if($view->name == 'my_view_name'){
$view->display['page_1']->handler->override_options['filters']['nid']['value']['0'] = arg(1);
}
}

I now get a filtered list that displays my friends who are not in the current group. Hurray! Unfortunately, I must have an issue with the logic of my view or something, as my friends must be in at least one other group to be appear in this list.

It would appear my where clause needs to look more like this:
WHERE (user_relationships.approved = '1') AND (users_user_relationships__og_uid.nid IS NULL) AND (og_uid.nid != 115 OR og_uid.nid IS NULL) AND (user_relationships.requester_id = 1)
instead of this:
WHERE (user_relationships.approved = '1') AND (users_user_relationships__og_uid.nid IS NULL) AND (og_uid.nid != 115) AND (user_relationships.requester_id = 1)

I think I've got it working. Going to work on creating an action for OG to expose to Bulk Operations, instead of using views send, and then I think I'll have a working solution for a friends list with checkbox invite in OG groups!

Wasn't as simple and elegant as I hoped, but I will create a new thread later on documenting the steps to create this UR / OG invite list.

subscribing

+1

Sorry I haven't been back to document my steps. I did get it working using some customized og actions for views bulk operations (turned promote user into invite - so that it simply sends an invite link instead of signing them up automatically).

I've included a pic of how it looks on my site

The trickiest part was just coming up with the filter override for views to use the group id, and then some work repurposing an existing og action.

It's much easier to use than the big blank textbox

Here's the pic

Classic double post on double click -_-

Seems like there is a reasonable starting point provided here. This is a very specific edge case I don't see many people needing and would best be solved through rules or a small custom module as mentioned above.