im seeing this issue on a clean install of drupal 7.41.

my non-admin users who are already subscribed to a group of a specific content type can't create new groups of the same content for the reason given in the title of this post.

when users try to create their own groups they see this error. either the error is inaccurate or this is a design flaw as I cant think of a reason why a subscriber of one group bundle (of a particular content-type) cant be a manager of another (group bundle).

marking as critical as i was expecting (and need) a group eco-system where users can simultaneously be managers and members of different groups (derived from a single entity type).

thanks

laurence

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Title: Can't save entity as group, because user user1 can't be subscribed to group and become a manager. » Can't save entity as group, because user can't be subscribed to group and become a manager.
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i have created a clean drupal 7-41 test site with default-everything and minimal module additions, enabled og, recreated users and groups and the problem persists.

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Please can I get some feedback from the maintainer as Im not able to further use og in its present state. If the criticals I have raised are due to config errors my end I would be very grateful further advice.

...if not the maintainer has anyone else experienced this problem. with 730,000 downloads i surely cant be the first to encounter this limitation?

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really no-one to offer feedback or comment on this issue? can anyone advise on the best way of getting support for og if not through the drupal site?

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ive installed another brand new drupal-7.41 with minimal modules to make this work and same error.

ive located the error message at line 836 in og module. the only workaround to this is to create group types per user??? either og is broken or i am using it incorrectly. issue almost a month old and i really need a resolution...

has anyone else encountered this same issue? i'm grateful for any assistance or advice.

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Perhaps you could be more specific to enable people to help

I have a site with many users creating and joining groups with no problems. I have one node content type (bundle) as the group in all cases and a number of different node content types as group content. I do remember reading that og_group_ref can only be used to reference a single entity/bundle type (I can't quite recall but I think it was in the D7 OG documentation pages). So if you are using different entity or bundle types for different group types you may need to create multiple group reference fields to assign a 1:1 mapping between og fields and group types.

[Additional] Here it is, see the section heading "Setting up group content for multiple group types"

https://www.drupal.org/node/2014781