Segregate groups from main drupal site
1.I am trying to segregate og groups from the main drupal site. I have too many blocks on our main site that interfere with og. I have tried page specific visibility settings for blocks, works ok but for 60+ groups it is difficult.
I have also tried disabling "Show blocks" settings, works fine for og_panels pages but the blocks for the main site reappear when creating/editing group specific content.
Is there an easier way to segregate og from the rest of my drupal site without using a different database or subdomain.
- How do I get the group notifications block to appear in my og_panels as embedded, page or block? I cannot figure this out.
Thank You for this great new functionality with og
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Maybe Pathauto to the rescue?
Hi gmasky,
I'm working on a project where I can expect 500+ new groups each 3 months. So adding each new group to all blocks would be silly. I use the pathauto module to solve this problem. My og content type uses a specific path that starts with the keyword group followed by the group title "domain.cno/group/title". Then I can use the block visibility and simply add "group" and "group/*".
Another solution would involve a special template. You can copy the template from the og module to your theme directory and make the changes to it. As far as I know, it is also possible to have a different page template for each content type, but I have not tried this solution yet.
Best regards
Hailstorm
Mike
php visibility
<?php$group_node = og_get_group_context();
if (!empty($group_node) {
return FALSE;
}
?>
or return TRUE, if you do the block to appear on group pages. this works for all group pages, not just group home page.
php visibility
This bit of code does not work when I insert it in Page specific visibility settings->Show if the following PHP code returns TRUE (PHP-mode, experts only).
<?php$group_node = og_get_group_context();
if (!empty($group_node) {
return FALSE;
}
?>
Any help will be appreciated
Gerry
The most obvious problem is
The most obvious problem is a missing paren. See line 3. Fixed below.
<?php$group_node = og_get_group_context();
if (!empty($group_node)) {
return FALSE;
}
?>
#1
Thanks,
I tried this piece of code on my navigation block. I can get the block to disappear, however it disappears for all regular drupal pages (frontpage) too and not just group specific pages.
Any help will be appreciated