Looking into OG side projects

Posted by btopro on May 20, 2008 at 7:17pm

I'm redo'ing our infrastructure and currently looking into Organic Groups as the major solution to our multi-site, distributed / replicated user accounts, EVIL monster that I have going at the moment :). So, that in mind, I'd like to move from 1 install base, 1 database per course to 1 central database for all of our course infrastructure.

I'm looking into OG side projects as I know i'm using the standard OG package. What other projects do you use / recommend that are OG related? There's a lot of side projects off of OG that extend functionality (block visibility being one I'm really interested in) and I just wanted to get some thoughts on them. Ideally, i'd like to see our course infrastructure mimic this site's architecture (g.d.o).

All thoughts are much appreciated!

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A short list

Posted by bonobo on May 23, 2008 at 4:23pm

OG Vocab: gets you group-specific vocabs

http://drupal.org/project/og_blueprints -- with the new panels functionality, this looks very interesting, but we have not tested this yet.

http://drupal.org/project/og_resetter -- another one on our short list to test.

http://drupal.org/project/subscriptions_og -- replaces the default notifications from OG -- we have used this, and did some work testing early versions.

Really, though, the magic of OG happens when you nail the use case of the group (ie, what specific things will different users be doing within the group) and theme a group home page that supports these activities.

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Organic Groups Example

Posted by rorwin on May 24, 2008 at 5:00am

I have been working on a site that will be using OG along with the Panels and Tabs modules to give teachers spaces that they can do with what they want and I don't have to worry about it too much. I am on Drupal 5.7 and in this case using the Roople Tapestry theme. The site can be found at www.bainbridge.wednet.edu/wms

Most of the first level links are correct but any deeper than that and you will end up on the current site. To see the OG stuff in action go to the classrooms link at the top and click on the 8th grade option. In this area you can click on Chris Sharp and Sara Bourland to see what I am doing with the OG stuff. Nothing really themed yet but you get the idea. Let me knkow what you think.

Related but unrelated, how do you get the view tab on the Panels page to change to Home like it is here in this group and in the Drupal Dojo group?

Interesting...

Posted by btopro on May 28, 2008 at 3:08am

Hmm, I haven't seen anyone else doing it so I was hoping someone was! This is the same idea i'm going for but for our college's online course infrastructure. I still need to play around with OG some more / my install as a whole (think I installed another 15+ modules today to work towards what I need). I've got a few things ironed out though but I'm banking on the sub-groups project to actually work the way I'm thinking of a sub-group. If anyone's used it and can tell me if this is how it works that'd be awesome:
*I have a course = a group (example: Art 10)
*I have course sections = a sub-group (example: Art 10 : Summer 2008 Section 001)
*Content posted in Art 10 will be visible in the course sections
*Content posted specific to each course section will only be visible to that section

This would be done by (I assume) setting the content propagation setting to down so that the larger group's postings get sent down the tree of groups. I'm also hoping this will allow me to limit access of section 1 students to just art 10 section 1 while still granting them access to art 10. section 2 to only section 2 + art10 level content and so on. I'm taking a billion sites and cranking them all out through one star patterned OG setup. Like what you said, I'm trying to put some more power in the hands of the instructors to keep them working somewhat more independently. This in conjunction with workflow / actions (still investigating but I assume this is what I'm looking for) and a re-write of the outline designer to handle larger hierarchies / course infrastructures with permissions based viewing of content and ajax branch loading should give me what I'm looking for....I hope....

Thanks for the confirmation :)

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