By cboshuizen on

Hi All,

I've just installed organic groups and am testing it, but I cannot seem to work out how to create forum containers and forums for a specific group alone.

When I first went to create a topic inside the group it of course first complained that there were no forums created yet. I couldn't see where to create containers or forums, so I made those at the root site. However, that means that anyone can see the containers and forum topics, whether they are a member of the group or not. Of course, the module is correctly hiding the posts, but I would prefer if it completely hid the containers and forums from non-group members as well.

Does anyone know a way to either,
1) create a forum container or forum inside a particular group, or
2) restrict all knowledge of the existence for a container or forum from non-members of the group?

Thanks in advance,
Chris

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cboshuizen commented

I used to do similar conealing with the Taxonomy Access Controll module, but of course I can't use that and the Organic Groups at the same time ;-(

Chris

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techczech commented

Are you using the OG_forum module?

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cboshuizen commented

Thanks for the quick reply. No, I hadn't been using OG_forum yet. I just looked at it and it says that it is abandoned. Is that my only choice?

Chris

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techczech commented

Abandoned just means that there is no maintenance of it and it may not be updated for 5.0 any time soon if ever. The module itself is functional - I use it on two sites. The big downside is that you have to run all you forums through an Organic Group but it's a worthwhile tradeoff if you really need it. I find, however, that just posting simple nodes with comments is actually enough for a discussion and users get confused by a forum and commenting on a blog.

Also if you check out the issue queue here http://drupal.org/project/issues/og_forum you will see that some people are still working on it.

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cboshuizen commented

Thanks. I'll give that a shot.

Chris