Groups.drupal.org

Two issues I wanted to bring up.

1) When using the events feature and signups, it mentions that that when people signup for the event that they will be sent a reminder email 24hrs before the event. However, this never seems to happen. I have started sending out manual reminders for some of the events I've posted. I'm not sure if this is a known issue or not. If this feature isn't enabled, then the UI should be updated accordingly (i could imagine it might be load intensive) and if it is, then it seems to be a bug or something.

I'm not sure how many other people might have this problem, but I was wondering if there was some way to make a post sticky for just a particular group?

Use case: I am organizing a regional event that I would like to cross post to other nearby groups who may be interested, and make featured/sticky on the local groups homepage. However, if the post is marked sticky then it becomes sticky for all groups and seems rude, at the very least, if not abuse to impose the importance of one group on the other groups.

The process for moderating groups, leaves a lot to be desired. Excited new users are getting cryptic messages, without much recourse. We can do better.

Here's a typical explanation: "Note:this does not meet the group guidelines" and then points to http://groups.drupal.org/node/add/og

This process needs a friendly a welcoming touch. How about some fun quotes. I've recently been using

"Brick walls are there for a reason. They let us prove how badly we want things." http://37days.typepad.com/37days/2007/09/be-thankful-for.html

just had a mini brain wave... maybe someone already thought of this.

you know how there's the live preview below? and you know how zemanta's firefox extension searches your post as your typing to suggest links?

what if the group text field submission conducted a live search of relevant content from the group you're posting in, to see if someone had already asked similar questions? wouldn't that be smart?

My book review pasted from Amazon.com. I reviewed the book for the publisher but that never guarantees a good review, so read on.

I must say I was asked to review this book, and I was very excited to do so. I thought it'd be good to comment on areas for people who aren't familiar with Drupal on a daily basis yet, and to give you some background, I was very excited to read this book. I needed a book that had the words "Drupal 6" and "module development" in it and luckily this book was titled exactly that and delivered. So, to newbies and non-newbies I offer the following review.

If you're impatient and don't want to read this review all the way, then just know this book must be read by each programmer who will be tinkering with Drupal, so yes, I recommend it. This book is not for people learning how to use modules, this is for people who plan to code and build their own modules. This book is not large, has great learning material, and brings tons of info down from Drupal's web site documentation into stress-free chapters. One entire chapter (Ch. 2) covers how to do an entire module from scratch and following chapters show how expand that module and build, and build, and really get to know important APIs that come with Drupal core.

In all honestly, I'm jealous that most new users get to read something as collected as this to learn from. If you read this book you'll basically catch up with content I took months, if not over a year to explore and read online. I had also held off heavy Drupal 6 development for myself until a book like this came out, so we're in the same boat.

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.

I don't know if this is configuration issue, or a limitation of Panels2, but here on g.d.o, if you

1) Have two groups, each with different vocabularies.
2) create a node in Group X, you see the categories options associated with that group, and can happily set them.
3) Use the checkboxes to assign the node to Group Y.
4) Browse over to Group Y, and edit that content.
5) Now you set the category options associated with Group Y (which is fine), and resubmit the node.

I'm building a community site for the Public Librarians and I was wondering how on Wiki Pages, the Edit link is added on Drupal Groups.

It's the link just under the Title that says, "You are viewing a wiki page. You are welcome..." Then depending on whether you're already a member of the Group, the link either goes to edit the page or join the group.

How nice.

Does anyone know how this was done? Is it something added to the theme template? I'm trying to figure out how it's done!

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi OG folks,

I'm using OG to create a hub site with several simple subsites. The subsites will be pretty simple (at least initially). Each subsite will simply have 3 or 4 pages which will use 2 or 3 views. All of the subsites will have exactly the same pages, except with different content.