Organic Groups

Overview

Overview of Organic Groups

• What is Organic Groups?
• Organic Groups Concepts
• Access Control - Content Visibility
• Access Control - Group Visibility
• Access Control - Membership
• Group Content
• Group Membership

Setup

How to setup

• Create a Group Content Type
• Create a Group Type
• Organic Groups (OG) Migration from Earlier Versions
• Requirements
• Set Site-Wide Permissions

Usage

The sub pages below provide instructions for creating groups, associating content and joining groups.

• Create Group Content
• Create a Group
• Join a Group
• HowTo: Enable group sign up during user registration

Management

How to manage access and permissions.

• Group Access
• Group Content Access
• Manage Group Membership
• Manage Group Specific Permissions
• Manage Group Type Permissions

Layout

The layout of group content can require some additional planning as it is important that blocks of content are displayed in the context of

Cookbook

How to accomplish various requirements and use cases with Organic Groups.

• Custom Views
• Creating a per group home page using Panels
• Using hooks to alter the groups audience field and user permissions
• Using other entity types as groups and group content
• Hiding the OG field from users entirely

Developing on OG 7.x-2.x

TODO: overview of entity types, field types, and how they all glue together.