Organic Groups Layout

First of all, love your videos! Your donation page is my next destination.

How do I create a view that is sorted to only show group content from groups you are a part of? Also, if you create a private group post, people from other groups should not be able to see those nodes even if they go directly to it, right?

Hi Brian,

Firstly, Thank you so much for taking the time to share your wisdom. These tutorials have been such a great help to me.

When doing this tutorial, I don't have a group-type node in my fields list... probably a silly noob question but how do rectify this?

Thanks again!

Brian,

Thanks for all your good work on this series. OG has been a particularly difficult thing for me to nail down, and your tutorials have helped a great deal.

Like others, my group layout was missing the content area after the flexible builder layout was chosen. Installing OG Views fixed that problem, although I am not sure how all this stuff ties together.

Once again, thanks!

Bob

Hi, thanks for the video, extremely useful. I followed along with everything but when I got to the point to add Field: group type, that field wasn't available. I figured I had to use Field: group (group_group) which I formatted as advised but nothing displays on the page when I'm finished, just the title but no link. In your example, just creating a group even without the panels integration generates the "request membership" link but that doesn't happen for me either. Do you have any idea what might be wrong?

This all worked out great, thanks.

However I found it mildly confusing when viewing articles as the group layout I created applied to all nodes. To fix this I edited the panel->under selection rules I selected node type from the drop down, and hit add, then selected only the "Group" content type. And saved it.

Hope this helps others.

Great video series! Many thanks for making this available!

I've been experimenting with creating multiple page variants so I can use different layouts for different types of OGs (blogs, workspaces, discussion groups) without having to create more than one group content type.

I created a content type "Group" and used a term reference field and a taxonomy (group types). Then I created one page variant per taxonomy term. I followed the instructions in this tutorial and added an additional relationship (for the term reference field) and selection rule (for the individual term).

It works perfectly for the User1 account and for the node author/group manager, but doesn't get selected at all for group members.

I'm pretty sure the problem isn't the taxonomy term relationship as this works for non-OG type page variants....

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Em

Hi Brian, I'm having a problem getting one of my variants to activate for a group page.

I set up my first variant to activate on any group page, following your instructions, and this works fine. However, I wanted users to have an alternative display of all the group nodes.

I tried to achieve this by creating a custom module and using hook_menu to create a new menu item which created a new path to link to the groups. My original path used the format "course/%course-name" (I'm using clean URLs) and I keyed my new menu item as "course/%course-name/resources". I then created a new variant based on my original one, which is supposed to be activated for all paths "course/*/resources". However, this variant is not being activated when the path is used.

It seems to have something to do with the fact that I am not saving the path internally in Drupal as a node alias. I am simply keying it in in my hook_menu function. When I save the path as an internal alias the variant does get activated but then this path is treated as being equivalent to my original one so they are not treated as being different.

Do you think there is a way I can get it to work using hook_menu, or maybe is there another approach I could use so that users could have alternative displays of the same group node?

Any advice you can give would be much appreciated, and thank you very much for your videos which have been very helpful so far.

The code I'm using is:

function mymodule_menu() {

$items['course/course-1/resources'] = array(
'title' => 'Resources',
'access callback' => TRUE,
'page callback' => '_getpage1',
'page arguments' => array(1),
'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM,
'menu_name' => 'menu-course-menu',
'weight' => '1',
);

return $items;
}

function _getpage1($arg1) {
$path = drupal_get_normal_path("course/" . $arg1);
$node=menu_get_object('node',1,$path);
return node_page_view($node);
}