Organic Group Setup under 5.0

1. Make sure you've downloaded and extracted the Views module into your /sites/all/modules directory, and enabled Views and Veiws_RSS under Admin>>Site Building>>Modules.
2. Download and extract the Organic Groups Module into your sites/all/modules directory
3. Go to Admin>>Site Building>>Modules and enable the OG module
4. Go to Admin>>Content Management>>Content Types and create a new content type. I entered the following:
   • Name = Group
   • Type=groups
   • Description=A collection of people with a common goal
   • Title field label=Group Name
   • Body field label=blank
   • Minimum number of words = 0
   • Explanation or submission guidelines = blank for now
   • Default Options= Published, Not Promoted, Not Sticky, Don't create new revisions
   • Default comment settings = Disabled
   • Save Content Type
5. Go to Admin>>Organic Groups>>Organic Groups Config and:
   • Access Control: Enable/Disabled your choice (I need to read up on this some more. I've used Taxonomy_Access in the past)
   • Group Details: Pretty self explanitory
   • Node authoring form: Whatever seems right to you. Under Omitted Content Types, you'll probably want to select the "Group" content type you created above, but that might happen automatically after the next step
   • Group home page: Under Group home page node types, pick your Group Content type you created above.
   • Email settings: as desired
   • Member pictures: as desired
   5a. Go to Admin>>User Management>>Access Control and set certain roles to create and edit and edit own Groups.

Now you can go to Create Content>>Group and create your first group.

Updated 1/27/07: to reflect 5.0 installation of contrib modules into /sites/all/modules instead of /modules