Additional resources

Last updated on
30 April 2025

Additional resources (demos, tutorials, etc), about the Group module are available throughout the net. This page contains an inventory of them.

Presentations and tutorials

  1. How to use the Group module in Drupal 8 to manage editorial access control to different areas of a web site.
  2. Group for D8: managing groups has never been more awesome (and related slides).

Articles

  1. 9 reasons Group for Drupal 8 is awesome.
  2. Group - an alternative to Organic Groups.

Drupal Answers

Use cases of the Group module

Questions from Drupal Answers (*) that illustrate how the Group module can be used:

  1. How to add and delete a user to another group using the Group module?
  2. How to show the content of a group on the group page when using the Group module?
  3. What are the various roles supported by the Group module?
  4. How to bulk assign existing content to a group created with the Group module?
  5. How to email all group members after a new node is added when using the Group module?
  6. How to restrict users to access certain users?
  7. How to only allow a user to edit his/her own users?
  8. Where to start for implementing user roles/levels?
  9. How to restrict content access within a site?
  10. What is the simplest, most Drupalish, way to restrict access to some content to authenticated users or a certain role?

Using the Group module with Views Bulk Operations (VBO)

Questions from Drupal Answers (*) that illustrate how the Group module can be used together with the Views Bulk Operations (VBO) module:

  1. How to implement the mass operations on the Group's members page using Views?
  2. How to correct my Rules Component to perform VBO operations for the Group module?

Using the Group module with Views

Questions from Drupal Answers (*) that illustrate how the Group module can be used together with the Views module:

  1. How to add a column to the list of group members or create a Views equivalent of it?
  2. How to display a views block on pages with a specific combination of URL patterns?

Using the Group module as an OG alternative

Questions from Drupal Answers (*) that illustrate how the Group module can be used as an alternative to Organic groups:

  1. How to limit search results based only on OG group membership?
  2. Open Atrium 2 or Drupal Commons or Simple Drupal 7 with OG.
  3. How to show organic groups users that their subscription is pending?
  4. Allow users to manage other users but all content is site-wide not based on group.
  5. How to create basic Organic Groups functionality with flags and references?

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