Drupal 7 Organic Groups

OSTraining Class: Drupal 7 Organic Groups

	Teacher: Brian Lewis Released: 05-16-2012 Level: Intermediate	Certificate: Soon you'll be able to get a certificate for this course.
	In this class you'll learn how to use Organic Groups, the key module for adding social features to your Drupal 7 site. You'll set up groups, configure their layout, administer memberships, configure access restrictions and more.

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In this class you'll learn how to use Organic Groups, the key module for adding social features to your Drupal 7 site.

You'll set up groups, configure their layout, administer memberships, configure access restrictions and more.

Here's an overview of the class:

Create a group content type, as well as modify the article content type to be a group post.
Configure the view panes and pages associated with Organic Groups.
Configure Panels for your group layout.
Create private groups, that can have private and/or public content, as well as public groups that can have private and/or public content.
Explore the way Organic Groups handles group memberships.
Allow group members to post content to the group.
Set custom global roles for groups on our site.
Set custom global permissions for groups on our site.
Alow a group to have roles that are different from all other groups on the site.
Allow a group to have permissions that are different from all other groups on the site.
Decide who can post to a group, and what they can post to a group.
Create various membership types such as a membership type that expires after 30 days.
Decide whether or not group managers should have all permissions within their groups.
Select which group fields are visible to members based on that group's roles.

Please note: This course is for version 1 of Organic Groups. OG 2 introduced a number of significant changes and the course will not work with v. 2.x

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Brian Lewis
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I'm not a "proper" techie. I have always enjoyed computers, and probably would have become the best programmer of our time had I not decided to, instead, pursue my other passion, which is music. I started using Drupal in college when D5 was at the end of its life. I dabbled in D6 for a bit, but then had to drop it to finish my degree in Music Education. Now I teach music in the public schools. I got back into Drupal about a year before D7 was released, so I built a couple of sites in D6, then in January, completely switched over to D7 when it was released. Because I decided to make the switch right away, I was running into a lot of bugs/issues that hadn't been resolved yet. One of those issues was getting Organic Groups (OG) to work in D7. Nobody seemed to be able to figure it out, so I spent weeks scouring the interwebs to find the magical button that would make everything work... With the videos I made, I realized that I had shown one way to set up OG in D7, but people still had a lot of questions about edge cases. This is when I saw the light, and had the idea to put together an OG series which would be a series of short videos covering the different settings of the module. This format would let me go in-depth into each part of the module so that site builders would then have the knowledge to bend the module to their will. Thus, ModulesUnraveled.com was born! I'm glad to be sharing these on OSTraining!

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