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I am happy to find this post very useful for me, as it contains lot of information. I always prefer to read the quality content and this thing I found in you post.baby doll Thanks for sharing.

I think this extension needs a serious upgrade. Its really handy but I'm having a really hard time getting it to work for the later drupal releases.

Another good idea would to implement OpenID in it. There is something related in the Drupal modules but I think it is very weak for the time being.

How did you hide/autoselect the Forum taxonomy when posting into a group? I have og_forum set up, so it is automatically creating new containers and a default forum, but you appear to have hidden the taxonomy selection on the forum-topic submit-form. After digging through your themes and modules, I'm still at a loss for how this is done.

We can use this in our class sites setups. I'm working with a group of writing teachers from multiple institutions on building a setup specifically for writing classroom use, and this is definite big plus for our distribution.You've implemented this on the CivicSpaceLabs site where you can join the "CivicSpace Announce List" with a form in the block.Have you hacked a way to be able to do the same thing with these Organic Groups that you've demoed here? There are inevitably people who just want to be on the mailing list and don't have any desire to log in and edit the wiki .

Does this work with the newest version of drupal? thanks!

I recently came across your article and have been reading along. I want to express my admiration of your writing skill and ability to make readers read from the beginning to the end. I would like to read newer posts and to share my thoughts with you.

Zack Hi,

The links seems to be broken,

Can you fix it or alternatively provide a general guide lines for making a wiki node tobe associated with its organic group?

Many Thanks,

Yevgeny

It very much sums up what I want to achieve.

I was wondering if there was a more current best practice setup to achieve this under drupal 5. For example is it better to use the og_subgroups module instead of Node Relativity? Any better wiki modules to use etc... Any other tips would be greatly appreciated.

I seem to have a problem downloading the attachments. It seems broken.

An excellent screen cast. This example you have here has so many uses and really captures what i think 95% of users who want group functionality would like in an ideal world, but wouldn't know how to best go about it without an example like yours.

Thanks again.

I have installed all the modules for the test in drupal 4.7.3 and this error appears

warning: Missing argument 2 for theme_tabs_tabset() in C:\Programme\xampp\htdocs\dev\drupal\modules\jstools\tabs\tabs.module on line 44.

for the module tabs.
Why? And what can I do to solve this error?

tvm in advanced

When this is ready warn me because this is all I need for a specific website. I don't need full blown CivicSpace rolling there and it is somehow stupid installing a bunch of things that will never be used.

Most people at that site will use plain maillists and an integration site that can organize them better will suffice.

I didn't saw in your text but do you have included Events?

Another good idea would to implement OpenID in it. There is something related in the Drupal modules but I think it is very weak for the time being. If using OpenID we should start from what is already really working and can easly be ported: Wordpress OpenID plugin.

Best.

Just wanted to say a really quick thank you. Very useful site.

Definitely like what I've seen so far and can see some powerful uses for it. But of course I have some questions. :-) At this point I am just checking to see if these things are on your radar for implementation at some point in the future, since they won't all be quick and easy features.

1-Since the forum input is going to be creatable by e-mail, I was wondering if you had any plans to interface with any type of SPAM/virus detection (SpamAssasian/ Dspam/ ClamAV/ etc.) to keep things from getting messy?

2-Any plans for a digest version for the e-mail? Many people nowadays get there e-mail forwarded to their cell/PDA, and I wouldn't want to overload them with tomany msgs in a day.

3-If you do a digest, would it also be possible to make a teaser/summary version? This could just indicate which threads you've posted to had replies, or groups you belong to had new content. Or maybe for your teaser section indicate which of all the public groups had new content. With the level of detail being set-able via your prefs/profile.

Thanks for all the work you've been doing on drupal and OG. And especially this screencast which gave me a nice taste of what's coming.

Paul

Hi Zack,

the 4.7/HEAD version of og2list seems to be getting heavy attention based on the drupal.org CVS messages. Do you know if this module is going to include all the functionality you showed here in terms of mail into and out of a group forum? Also (and i'm not sure how this plays in) og_forum is apparently not working with Druapl 4.7/HEAD.

Did you ever post your 4.7 ported og_mandatory module?

Thanks

How to use Tabs module?
I've installed the tabs module,and choose the"luna" style.Then,what can i do?

I am a Drupal newbie, and have a question about how you organized the forums in this demo. How did you restrict a forum to a particular group page? I like that feature and want to implement it in my own Drupal site, but I can't find a way to seperate a forum from the rest of the forums.

Thanks!

Ryan

Zacker,I just begin my first Drupal site,and I have some foolish questions.^-^
(1)I set the O.G module in Drupal 4.66,when i create my first group,I found there is a group,but I can't post any message in it's homepage.I should go to "create content->blog,and chose my group in "Audience:*
" How could I add my post in the group home page,just like choose in your sandbox "magic Group,messages,send message"

(2)I want to add a classified ad page in O.G module,just like you add wikipage in O.G.So the members of each group can share classified ad.For example,I want establish a group with my neighbors,and we want to share some information ,e.g,the discount message of restaurants in our living aero,just like“Craigslist.com“.

Thanks forward.

Zack, I want to thank you for giving me hope about drupal and the group module. But I have to say that even though this group of modules is really on track for social networking, you will not get non-tech folks like myself to be able to set it up without getting some real world step-by-step how to's on getting these modules to run.

I've spent the better part of last night and today attempting to set up my drupal site using the modules you've provided. But I'm just not able to do it. The README file included with the og module doesn't even try to explain your set up. I've been busting my brain trying to get this to work and just can't do it.

I know you are showing what you have been able to do and not really made this available to the general drupal user. I hope that you will get it all working so that the average user can install it and use it in the near future.

Thanks again for giving me a glimpse into seeing what is possible... even though I have no idea how to get everything to work together.

Hi Zack,

I've been working with a friend who introduced me to drupal. We're building a new website with drupal 4.7 for our local Democratic club to encourage and enhance local activism. I'm impressed with this demo, and hope we can adapt some of your work.

Two technical quesitons (if you don't mind). I've been trying to use og_mandatory_group, and in my experience the current CVS (v 1.2) is nonfunctional (I posted a drupal issue). Did you fix yours, or are you using an older version?

Two, I'm looking at the CivicRM site, and they don't indicate any support for drupal 4.7 for CivicRM 1.3. However, in your video, I can see that you're running CivicRM 1.3. Obviously, this is a tool we'd like to have. did you have to port/patch or am I just missing something? See, for example:

[[http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/CiviCRM+v1.5]]

where my reading is that CivicRM won't begin development for drupal 4.7 until RC2 is released.

Thanks!

This is fantastic, Zack. We can use this in our class sites setups. I'm working with a group of writing teachers from multiple institutions on building a setup specifically for writing classroom use, and this is definite big plus for our distribution.

You mentioned someone's sandbox, but it slips by my ears. I take it this is not part of core 4.7 ajax functionality?

Nice overall intro. Thanks!

So, you decided to out me as a pirate revolutionary. Thanks man. And here I was hoping to get things worked out with the IRS.

State of Jefferson here I come.

The tabs. Wow! Very slick.

I like the way the group integrates with email -- very valuable and the integration of the wiki features. I do wonder if there is a way to turn off editing on the wiki landing page. I'm imagining using this with groups and not wanting people to be able to change that page (even with the roll back features).

Also, I can imagine wanting an automated way to invite people to the group -- particularly if a user is transitioning from some existing application.

Finally, a default install that has a way to attach files would also be useful.

The huge benefit I see is that this set-up would make it very easy to migrate from the standard mailing list into somehting that was more highly featured. People that want to stay -- just email -- could very easily do so.

Good stuff. I already want it and can imagine several uses for it in my everyday work life.

Zack,
There was a point in the screencast where you sent an e-mail to the group via a third-party e-mail client and you said that you had to wait for the CRON to run before it'd show up.

* Which module contains the mechanism for this?

* Is there a file on the backend that you have to change to make this happen -- or does it happen automatically when the particular module is installed?

Zack,
Wow. Thanks so much for putting this together. They say a picure is worth 1000 words, and so a screencast must be worth 1000 blog posts. This is the future of communicating functionality quickly and efficiently.

And this also happens to be some functionality that I've been looking for -- and it's certainly a magic cocktail of modules that I couldn't see how they could be connected in that way -- that is without totally immersing myself into the many contributed modules that are out there.

We need more roadmaps like these that show how developers are combining and using the functionality that's already out there, and you should *definitely* do some more.

So Thanks so much for putting it all together, and I'll look forward to more of them.

-Kent.