| Attribute | Average |
|---|---|
| Features | 4.25 / 5 |
| Reliability | 4 / 5 |
| Ease Of Use | 2.25 / 5 |
| Documentation | 2.5 / 5 |
| Vote Count | 4 |
#D7CX: I pledge that Organic Groups will have a full Drupal 7 release on the day that Drupal 7 is released. Enable users to create and manage their own 'groups'. Each group can have subscribers, and maintains a group home page where subscribers communicate amongst themselves. Update: the OG Panels module... [More...]
| Maintainer: | Amitaibu |
| Links: |
| Version | Date | Files | Release notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.x-2.1 | 2010-Mar-16 | Download | Recommended |
| 5.x-8.1 | 2009-Sep-30 | Download | Recommended |
| 6.x-2.x-dev | 2010-Mar-15 | Download | Development |
| 5.x-8.x-dev | 2009-Oct-01 | Download | Development |
| 6.x-1.4 | 2009-Sep-30 | Download | Other |
| 5.x-7.4 | 2009-Sep-30 | Download | Other |
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I have battled with OG for months now. I am not a programmer, but I am an experienced Drupal User. I have been involved with running two Drupal sites over the last 5 years and have installed many different modules. OG is by far the most complicated and it is extremely difficult to work out what it is up to and how to change its behaviour to suit. If you have a problem there could be any one of a dozen different places to look to try to sort it.
To summarise: it may well do want you want, but expect to spend many, many hours working out how and don't expect very much help.
F: I can't fault the features - if you want something that creates groups and allows people to join, this module does it. However, joining a group seems to be meaningless - anybody can post to the group node and anybody can read the group node. I hope there's a way to get around this, but see my comment below about docs.
R: If reliability means it works as advertised, then I'd advise anybody using this to check very carefully. Having set a group to be private, I can still post to it and read it when I log on as a different user. See my comment below about docs.
E: Ease? First of all, there are many dependencies and many modules that you might not particularly want for their own sake have to be installed. Secondly, there's no single place you can go to create groups, add members, and do all the admin. You do a little piece here, navigate somewhere else to do another bit, go yet elsewhere to do the next bit... Unless your menu is bare and you need a dozen OG-related items to fill it up, and you love spending your time clicking about in desperate search for an item you're sure you saw somewhere, keep away. It's a horror.
D: Was there any documentation? You mean the readme.txt? The written documentation would suit the kind of person who throws away the instructions for a new gadget and learns how to use it by trial and error. The long, rambling, tedious video would suit the kind of person who can use the word 'cool' without blushing. Wow! You can hear developers talking! And see them too! What will they think of next? Cool!
Don't expect to find answers to even your most trivial questions easily. Most won't be answered at all. Docs? What docs?
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1hr long video intro to OG - AWESOME!
What, no reviews or votes yet? That is surprising. This module has been the reason I can build community driven websites for clients. Great module. Keeps improving over time. There have been some difficulties with theming an those darn blocks have given me hell in specific situations, but that is more because I'm not the greatest coder.
"The issues raised in shl's review have been addressed in versions 1.7 and above. I can't add this comment..."
"This module will make the Upload Files Form beautiful. It doesn't work with filefield, just the upload..."
"despite a nice interface, the permissions are not copied but Duplicate Role works - http://drupal.org/project/duplicate_role "
