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Working With Organic Groups in Drupal 7 Matthew Radcliffe mradcliffe@kosada.com Wednesday, December 7, 2011 History Organic groups (OG) in Drupal 5 and 6 Nodes and users User interface OG provided many useful views and pages out of the

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Working With Organic Groups in Drupal 7

Matthew Radcliffe mradcliffe@kosada.com

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

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History

Organic groups (OG) in Drupal 5 and 6 Nodes and users User interface OG provided many useful views and pages

  • ut of the box.

Compatibility was hit or miss with contributed modules.

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New in OG 7

OG’ s interface has been split out into a new module, og_ui. OG user access OG field access OG register Other

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New in OG 7

OG’ s interface has been split out into a new module, og_ui. OG user access OG field access OG register Other

  • User interface is
  • ptional.
  • Relies on knowledge of

Views module to create complex group and membership lists.

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New in OG 7

OG’ s interface has been split out into a new module, og_ui. OG user access OG field access OG register Other

  • Provides permissions

and roles that are restricted to Organic groups.

  • Separate from Drupal’

s normal permission and role system.

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New in OG 7

OG’ s interface has been split out into a new module, og_ui. OG user access OG field access OG register Other

  • Provides field-level

permissions for a group entity’ s fields.

  • Alternative to Field

Permission.

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New Architecture

Group Any field-capable entity can be a group by adding the OG Group field to it. A developer can also sneak this into other entities. Data also stored in og table. A group is also an entity.

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New Architecture

Group Membership Any entity can be a member of a group. OG Audience field tells us that an entity can have group membership. Data also stored in og_membership Group membership is also an entity, and group membership may have different bundles (types).

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Views and OG

Views concepts - initial view, relationships, and contextual filters. Choose the type of view. Choose relationships to bring in entity data (user, node, taxonomy, etc...). Choose contextual filters to restrict to a group’ s entity id.

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Practice with Commerce

Commerce Create product/product node with price. Rules Create new event node owned by Customer on Order status change. Other crazy things

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Organic Groups Future

Architecture User Interface Privacy

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Organic Groups Future

Architecture User Interface Privacy

  • Why do we need a

Group entity?

  • Why do we need to

duplicate Og Audience and og_membership?

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Organic Groups Future

Architecture User Interface Privacy

  • Og UI leaves much to

be desired.

  • Hire a Drupal

developer?

  • Suggest Ui

improvements on Og’ s queue?

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Organic Groups Future

Architecture User Interface Privacy

  • No option to hide group

and group content from non-members.

  • Og Private or Og?

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Questions?

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