The OpenEdge Hive

Although I was not subscribed, I did visit a few groups and they did not seem to have any content or activity, so it did not seem necessary to subscribe. Was I wrong: only after subscribing I got access to the group forum! It appeared that none of the forum topics where marked "Public".

It is important to teach everyone to always look at the "Groups Audience" toggle boxes in everything you create. By default, "Public" should be toggled on and also at least one group.
There is an admin configuration setting that specifies that at least one group must be toggled. I would like that, there is no reason to create content outside of a group.

(Jurjen: You still need to subscribe back onto the "hive" group. :)

I installed EasyLinks, but unfortunately I don't care for it. It seems to work fine on the surface, but it's not well integrated into the rest of Drupal. The /easylinks page doesn't seem to be a node that we can assign categories to, so it's hard to fit it into navigation by category. I've worked around that, but...

It doesn't seem to use normal "node" records, so things listed in EasyLinks do not show up in Search. :( That's not acceptable, and I'm going to look for an alternative.

Tricky!

If a node's "Input Format" gets set to something like full HTML or PHP, but the node's owner does not have permission to use that format, then the node owner can't edit their own node! The administrator has to change the node's input format back to something that the user/node-owner has permission to use.

I couldn't figure out why I wasn't able to edit a few of my ProRefactor pages. It's because I created those pages using Rich Text, which my normal user "john" account no longer has access to.

Jurjen: Let's not change any of these...? Figuring out where all the Groups problems were coming from was very difficult.

- Workflow doesn't seem to work with Groups - had to disable the workflow for Groups for a user to be able to access a group they created.

- I have not set Groups to be automatically attached to Project or any other node types. The Project module and the Organic Groups modules are separate modules, and I'm concerned that they don't play perfectly well together.

- I have not enabled "Access Control" in the Organic Groups module.

I've set up "Extended Tracker". Now when you click "recent posts", you can see there's a tab for your own posts... that way if you create something, you can find it again. :)

I've re-enabled OG, OG Forum, and OG2List. I created a couple of groups, including "hive". It doesn't seem to have re-attached the old "hive" forum, but instead created a new one.

We could always find the node for the old forum, and add a link somewhere, if we wanted to reference that old stuff.

Hopefully this mailing list works. These OG modules seem awful brittle. I don't think we'll want to fiddle with their administration much more. I hope they are more solid in future releases.