Installing and configuring Organic Groups

To get started with Organic Groups, we will download and install three modules: Organic Groups, OG Vocabulary, and OG Extras, available at http://drupal.org/project/og, http://drupal.org/project/og_vocab, and http://drupal.org/project/og_extras respectively. The Organic Groups module also requires the Entity API (http://drupal.org/project/entity) and Entity Reference (http://drupal.org/project/entityreference) modules. The Organic Groups UI module, which is part of the Organic Groups project, also requires the Views Bulk Operations module (http://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations). Download these modules and upload them to your server as described in the Installing modules and themes section of Chapter 3, Getting Started.

Tip

Throughout this chapter, we will abbreviate Organic Groups to OG. This abbreviation occurs frequently in discussions of Organic Groups that occur on drupal.org.

The OG module works closely with many other modules. In this...