Hey!

In a project I need organic-group-managers of my site to invite other people (not registered) to their group. I need to have this flow (see attachment) in my drupal-website but havn't found a working og-invitation-solution for drupal 7.
So i decided to build one on my own, using the invite-API.

My plan is to hook into the "create_invite"-process, to save the group-id as additional data.
Whenever person registers now by an invitation-link, I have to check if there is group-data saved to this invitation and then join the user to the group.

Do you think this is a good way, solving my problem or do you have any other suggestions?

best wishes,
killerpoke

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killerpoke CreditAttribution: killerpoke commented

I just finished a first draft. You can see the sandbox here. http://drupal.org/sandbox/killerpoke/1441644.
The module is very simple (at the moment), and just covers some functionality, but I will add functionality if needed.

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Vj CreditAttribution: Vj commented

Hello killerpoke,

I want to try this og_invite module can you please tell me how to get the files from git as i never tried this

Thanks,
Vj

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@Vj: see http://drupal.org/node/1294804 for how to download a sandbox project.

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Vj CreditAttribution: Vj commented

@nedjo

THanks :)

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Sylense CreditAttribution: Sylense commented

The plugin works great on my end. It works fine for the sitewide administrator but is there a permission to allow the GROUP administrators to invite users to a group? This may be an oversight on my part

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killerpoke CreditAttribution: killerpoke commented

whoop. the current project i need to use this module is currently freezed (because of another pointless facebook-app -.-). I will continue on this project in the end of april, then I'm going to implement the permission-check.

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Excellent killerpoke.
I appreciate the work. Works like a charm.

Sylense, the module only allows the user to invite users to groups that they have permission to. I have created a new role for GROUP administrators, as they are required to do other things as well.

Thanks, again.
Amarjit
www.bharath.co.uk

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Sylense CreditAttribution: Sylense commented

Amarjit, it works great from the administrator account (user 1) but I've added authenticated users to a group and the list under "Invite to Groups" does not populate with the groups they are a member of. Are you saying you got this to work somehow?

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killerpoke CreditAttribution: killerpoke commented

Hey folks.

I commited the feature to set invite permissions on the organic groups permission-page. I will try to solve this issue: http://drupal.org/node/1469348, then I will submit this sandbox to become a real project.

If you have any other features requests or something else please post it in the issue queue.

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Sylense CreditAttribution: Sylense commented

Works great! Thanks for the commit. This should definitely be submitted as an official sub module for OG/Invite

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Traverus CreditAttribution: Traverus commented

+1

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killerpoke CreditAttribution: killerpoke commented

Thank you for your feedback! I will submit this as a official module later this week.

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SKrossa CreditAttribution: SKrossa commented

The plugin worked great for me, too. Really looking forward to this as an official project/module —Thank you, killerpoke!

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jday CreditAttribution: jday commented

I need something that will allow groups admins to invite non-users to a private group, any chance this project would work for that?

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killerpoke CreditAttribution: killerpoke commented

First I will try to make this sandbox a real module. Then wen can add features.
@jday: It's most likely, that this will be implemented soon.

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nvl.sateesh CreditAttribution: nvl.sateesh commented

hi killerpoke,

I tried to get the sandbox code but got only the README file. Can you please give me the zip file or put it as a project, as it could be really very helpful for a project I am working on. I can also help testing and fixing any issues.

thanks for this pal...

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Hey nvl.sateesh!

The code has moved to the 7.x branch, so you just have to hit: git clone http://git.drupal.org/sandbox/killerpoke/1441644.git -b 7.x invite_og_plugin

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Sylense CreditAttribution: Sylense commented

I upgraded to OG 7.x-2.0-alpha3 and now it's broken :(

Are there any plans to add support for 7.x.-2.x? I needed to upgrade to the latest version of OG to utilize some of the new features and architecture which is unfortunate because I still want to be able to invite users to groups.

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killerpoke CreditAttribution: killerpoke commented

Hey Sylense!

I will look this up. Can you post a new issue at the project page: http://drupal.org/project/issues/1441644?status=All&categories=All

thank you!

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killerpoke CreditAttribution: killerpoke commented

I've created a second version for OG 7.x-2.x. You can find it here: http://drupal.org/project/1441644/git-instructions

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Yuri CreditAttribution: Yuri commented

Is this now part of Invite 7.x-2.x-dev ?

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ludo1960 CreditAttribution: ludo1960 commented

Wondering the same thing, can somebody confirm it is now part of the 7.x-2.x-dev module?

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killerpoke CreditAttribution: killerpoke commented

I just looked throw the 7.x-2.x-dev code and found nothing related. Btw: I just updated my sandbox-plugin and it hopefully will be a full module soon, since there aren't any issues I think.

(http://drupal.org/sandbox/killerpoke/1441644)

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alesr CreditAttribution: alesr commented

You can try this new module. It adds an Invite People link on group's Group page that I was missing (see image) OG Invite People
(made for OG 7.x-2.x)

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but does og_invite_people integrate with the invite module?