[Web Comm] Drupal modules and it's functionalities

[Tyler Mitchell]

Great summary KK,

Would you like me to install these modules on the community.osgeo.org  
site so you can try them out and demonstrate them?

My thoughts are that we can continue to work on that server until we  
dump and move it to the new one when ready in a week or so.

Anyone else have thoughts?

Tyler

On 10-Nov-06, at 8:27 AM, kanhaiya kale wrote:

> Hi,
> In drupal, i have seen some modules and it's functionality. I think  
> these modules with minor changes in it will fulfill our  
> requirement. Modules are listed below,
> Organic Group (og module) :
> Enable users to create and manage their own 'groups'.
> Each group can have subscribers, and maintains a group page where  
> subscribers can post into.
> Membership to groups may be open, moderated, or invitation only.
> Any page,forum,poll etc. created by a user of a group 'A' can/ 
> cannot be access by a users of group 'B'.
> Any post created by a user of group 'A' can/cannot give access to  
> users of group 'B'.
>
> og block visibility module :
> This module allows you to specify that a block should be visible  
> only within selected groups.
> This can be used for many purposes, from providing each organic  
> group with its own navigation menu, to allowing a group to  
> highlight its own featured content, etc.
>
> og forum module :
> Upon creating an og group, it creates a forum container for that  
> group, with a single sub-forum.
> A record is also placed in og_term to tie the organic group with  
> the forum container's term ID.
> When viewing groups, only forum discussions for that group are  
> displayed.
> The og_term table could be useful for other applications of tying  
> groups to taxonomy as well.
>
> og mandatory group module :
> An add-on for the Organic Groups module that makes one group  
> mandatory for all new users.
> Choose one group that all new users will be put into. You can chose  
> either an open or a closed group. Any new user will be auto- 
> approved as member of the group. The group manager(s) of groups  
> that a new user joins will get an automatic e-mail notice.
> This module also  allows the admin to require a new user to join at  
> least one group during registration by requiring them to choose one  
> of the groups listed in the registration form. This group is in  
> addition to any mandatory group.  This feature is disabled by  
> default, is independent of whether a mandatory group is selected,  
> and has no effect if there are no groups listed in the registration  
> form.
>
> og moderate module :
> Moderate public posts from organic groups module. Moderated posts  
> will be hidden from anonymous visitors. Moderation needs to be done  
> by node administrators or another module.
>
> og roles :
> This module allows you to, for each group type, specify a list of  
> roles that group administrators are allowed to assign. In the  
> subscriber list (og/users/<node id>), a 'configure member roles'  
> tab will appear if both the group type is allowed to configure  
> roles and the current user is an admin for the group.
> For example, if you created a "trusted user" role, and a new node  
> type called "official group," you could allow administrators of  
> only official groups to add selected other group members of to the  
> "trusted user" role.
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> kanhaiya kale (KK)