Greetings fellow Michigan Drupal users. I have a question. Let it be noted that I have only been using Drupal for about 2 months, so please forgive my newbisms & lack of knowledge...believe me, I'm trying, and I'm excited to be doing so.
My question pertains to this: I am building a website for my company (www.issi-central.com) and I need some assistance on what modules to use. I believe Organic Groups & Views is what I'm looking for, but wanted to pick your brains. Basically, when I started using Drupal I thought "Roles" were going to provide me with the functionality I needed for controlling who see's what, but then I discovered that when it comes to Content, Roles only allow you to access content or not access content for any given role. With that said, what I want to do is simple. I want to have different "groups" that see different content when they authenticate. Currently, I really only need one group set up, that group is for my company's Business Partners. When they log in, I want them (and only them) to see content relative to their needs.
I think Organic Groups is what I need, but I'm having a hard time understanding the module due to my newbieness...
Did I post this question in the correct spot? (I put it here because I met most of you) Did I give enough information? Is this the module I should be using? Is there a "tutorial" that can help me understand how Organic Groups functions?
Thank you so much for your valuable time & any help you can give me.
Comments
Other modules
Would TAC work better for me than OG?
ACL have many options and don't play nice.
For one site I use tac_lite.
Here is a list of Modules: User access/authentication
OG is more of segregating content per user_base rather than ACL, IMHO.
Your better of sifting through the support area, then posting something here.
http://drupal.org/forum
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Thanks for these other modules
I'll check them out & try to narrow down what is going to be best for my particular scenario. The problem I'm running in to is that I don't know how to use the modules, so it's hard to pick which will be right. Trial & error I suppose!
content permission and modules.
The core access control really only controls content creation and not content access. This is your issue.
OG and TAC can do what you want. But I found TAC to be a bit difficult to administer.
I like OG very much and use it on several websites. I recommend OG. There are several other modules that depend on OG that may also prove to be helpful, like mandatory group for instance.
You should know about these links:
OG Handbook - http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/og
http://www.zacker.org/magic-groups-screencast
http://si505.cms.si.umich.edu/sites/si505.cms.si.umich.edu/cam/Week2/OG/...
Regards,
Michael Hofmockel
Open Source || Open Access || Open Mind
Thank you for the screencasts
This is definitely something I need, especially the one on si505.cms.si.umich.edu.
Per your recommendation, I'll probably be using this OG module.
TAC working with OG
Did you all see the attempts to make TAC & OG work together?
Here's a link to one of the latest discussions, the author gives to steps.
Step 1: http://groups.drupal.org/node/3591
Step 2: http://groups.drupal.org/node/3700
Seems like that would be optimal; down the road I suppose.