I'm not sure what the purpose of the 'group post' content type is, or if it has just snuck through with standard OG, but it doesn't seem to be published anywhere.

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lightsurge commented

Marking as dupe of #1482880: Navigation/UI issues

Speaking of the sidebar, when looking at group-related content, events and announcements show up but not gallery or group posts. Is this as it should be?

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lightsurge commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)
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bonobo commented
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I'll set this back to active, as the issue at #1482880: Navigation/UI issues covers a few things that may (or may not) be related.

As to the purpose of a "group post" it's meant to be used for more general static content within a group. So, for example, if the football team wanted to put out a page that listed past players that had won awards, that would be a group post. This page would get updated a couple times a year, but it has information that is more or less timeless (at least as compared to an announcement or an event).

As to it not being published anywhere, that sounds like a bug, or at the very least a usability issue that needs to be addressed via the UI and/or documentation. Group posts would generally need to be placed into a menu to be immediately visible within the group context.

We will be doing some work on a Julio-based site today, and will test for this.

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lightsurge commented

Perhaps group posts would work well as a sort of micro-blog in the content of a group homepage? At the moment there's a lot in the sidebar, but unless a group has a large description, not much going on in the main content.

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lightsurge commented
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something like screenshot below:

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jgraham commented
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We should reconsider how we handled 'group posts' and options for displaying the content.

What about options for "group landing pages"? We could provide a few configuration options for layout and content. I'm envisioning a custom field that controls the display configuration for group landing pages; this would be custom code attached to a field that potentially provided alternate node rendering. I just thought that up though so there may be technical reasons that this is unfeasible, but I think it would provide a good user experience and a certain amount of customisation at the group level.

lighsurge's proposed screenshot in #5 is a good example of one such possibility.

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penguininja commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

I like the idea of providing options for the group landing pages, though I think we should cover that in a separate issue.

As far as the groups posts not showing up in any views/blocks/menus by default, this is an intentional decision made to keep control of the group information architecture in the hands of group managers. I.e. if there were a listing of recent group posts, that would undermine the ability of group managers to organize that information in their group menu(s). However, I agree that there are usability issues with this, such as creating a group post that seemingly "disappears" in the site because it doesn't appear anywhere. To address this issue, we'll be taking the following actions:

  1. Document the use of group posts (#1517050: Document how to use group posts), emphasizing that group posts are inherently different than the dynamic content on the site (i.e. announcements and events)
  2. Rename "group posts" to "group pages" to better reflect the static nature of these nodes and distance the name from "blog posts" (#1526106: Rename "Group Post" content type to "Group Page")
  3. Make it easier to add group posts to menus (#1514862: Make it easier to add items to menus)