Organic Group

In one of my Drupal project, we had a requirement to set a 2 level arrangement for users group. That means, we want to add more than one group for a user, in one of our Drupal site. Our experts find a solution for this by implementing Organic Group with user's account by some custom codes. Do you have a requirement like this? Connect with us.

JQuery and AJAX are very useful for loading data into the page without refreshing the web page. AJAX tabs can load content from remote files or URLs. In this example, the content of each Tab will be loaded dynamically with Ajax.

Organic Groups module is a powerful and useful module in Drupal. This module is used to create groups, add members to it, and to share content and comments. OG also has advanced access management through permissions and roles.

I have worked with a tiny portion of a website dealing with online donations. Here I came across the LuminateExtend Library. LuminateExtend is a JavaScript library for use with Blackbaud's Luminate Online product suite which provides a JavaScript wrapper around its API with some useful functions.

We had a requirement to show the group field in user registration form using Organic groups. Inorder to show group field in user registration form first we have to install the Organic Groups module (OG), Organic groups register module and create an Organic Group.

Do you want to add a user to an organic group programmatically in Drupal, then here is a solution. In one of my Drupal module I had a requirement to add users programmatically to an organic group. So I have created a custom function in my module for this purpose. This uses the function og_group to add a user entity to a group. Refer the following code. Remember that, you can add only an existing user to a group. It will not create a new user.

To change the group manager of a group usually we search into option as "change group manager" but we dont find it anywhere. Because there is no option within Organic Groups holding such a decription. So we need to think futher and deeper into the concepts of organic groups. This articles tells you simple method to change the group manager of the group.

There are situations where we need organic groups membership entity ID. Some of situations are : we use the function og_membership_delete() when we want to remove programmatically a user or node or any group content from our group, which will require parameter that is organic groups membership entity ID. Also when come across og_membership_load() function to get the entire organic groups membership object, which will also require OG membership entity ID as parameter. So in these situations how can we get organic groups membership object membership entity ID. See the following function I have written to retrieve the organic groups membership object membership entity Id.

Organic Group Module in Drupal allows to create and manage different groups. While creating a content, we can add that content to a group. The og_group() function allows to add a content to a group. <!break-->

Drupal 7's version of Organic group is totally rewritten by taking the advantage of many new Drupal 7 features, especially entity and field APIs. One of the major difference between drupal OG-6 and OG-7 is the expansion of the concept of what a 'group' is. In Drupal 7, any type of entity can be a group and any type of entity can belong to a group. The organic groups module allows us to create a working group where a number of people can create content which is non-public and it is visible to group members only.

A Drupal user using Drupal Organic Groups wanted to know how to show the block on every page that belongs to Organic Groups. Presently the block was only visible in the start page of the blocks. If you are facing the same question in your Drupal site with Drupal organic groups then read on to find out the solution.

A few Drupal users had reported that the Panels of Organic Groups disappeared after upgrading to Organic Groups 7.x-2. If you are facing the same situation in your Drupal website with Drupal Organic Groups then read on to find out the solution.

Once in a while you will come across a Drupal site where you have to login to the site without having access to the credentials of user 1. You can easily reset the password of user 1 directly in the database or you can create a small work around to login to the site. Here is how you can login to the Drupal 7 site programmatically as user 1 without knowing user 1 credentials.