By roly on

I'm a newbie to Drupal and wondered if someone could help. I've recently downloaded 4.7 and installed the OG module as I have 2 groups that require restricted forums and pages.

I also have static pages on the site for generally viewing and for those that want to subscribe to the 2 groups.

I have created a number of static pages and have created a 'block' that contains links to these static pages. However, I only want this block to appear on specific pages....not all pages.

I reviewed the handbook and the option I have was a setting in the configuration of the block called "Page specific visibility settings". However, when I tried this, Drupal just ignored anything I selected under that option.

I researched it further and found a note on http://drupal.org/node/59806 that states..

"It is _not_ compatible with any other type of block view restriction."

So I think I know what is causing it but my question is if this feature is 'disabled' when organic groups is installed then how do you make a 'public' block only visible on some pages?

I've searched for a tip on this but haven't been able to find one. I would have thought this would have been asked previously but perhaps it's just my 'slow' understanding of the OG module.

Can anyone help?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

Comments

Evan Leeson’s picture

Evan Leeson commented

...as long as you have not selected a group under group visibility settings. You need to select one of these option in the configure screen for your block:

Show block on specific pages:

Show on every page except the listed pages.
Show on only the listed pages.
Show if the following PHP code returns TRUE (PHP-mode, experts only).

Then enter your string in the box, such as

Enter one page per line as Drupal paths. The '*' character is a wildcard. Example paths are 'blog' for the blog page and blog/* for every personal blog. is the front page.If the PHP-mode is chosen, enter PHP code between . Note that executing incorrect PHP-code can break your Drupal site.

I suspect the selction of a group will conflict with the visibility controls below, but that seems to be ok since the reason for selecting a group is to limit to that groups pages.

I want to be a farmer.

roly’s picture

roly commented

Thanks lectric for replying. I'm not too sure if you understood my question. What I am saying is that Drupal ignores any options you place under "Show block on specific pages" when the Organic Group module is installed. Have a look at http://drupal.org/node/59806 that states..

"It is _not_ compatible with any other type of block view restriction."

So I am still at a loss to have a 'public' block visible on some pages but not others while using the OG module.

Does this make more sense?

skyl1ne’s picture

skyl1ne commented

I had the same problem until I DISABLED "og_block_visibility Allows restricting of block visibility to a particular organic group." in Modules.

Evan Leeson’s picture

Evan Leeson commented

and it is being fixed. This behaviour is not planned so the programmer will be fixing it so og_block_visibility doesn't kill block visibility permissions.

I want to be a farmer.

roly’s picture

roly commented

Thanks for the feedback. I disabled the og_block_visibility and it worked straight away. Thanks for the tip :).