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Jellison

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Committee Support - Use Organic Groups and CiviCRM?
July 17, 2010, 04:55:49 pm
Hello and thanks in advance for any help.

Our non-profit association is considering a move to CiviCRM since we already use Drupal. One area we need to improve is our Committee support functions. We have several committees that want typical email and discussion tools to support their work to develop standards and best practices.

We have experimented with OG in Drupal and I think it will meet our needs. We have also looked at Open Atrium and it probably exceeds what we need.

In reading the CiviCRM on-line book I saw that integration with OG appears to work as we would need. I am hopeful someone has experience with committee support and can provide some guidance/suggestions.

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Re: Committee Support - Use Organic Groups and CiviCRM?
July 17, 2010, 09:54:39 pm
We have done the above with several clients. Out of the box OG synch works from Drupal to CiviCRM so someone who joins the group in Drupal gets added to the civicrm group. Vice versa is possible but requires some customisation. A manual approach involves using User Import and pulling everyone from a civicrm group and dropping them in to the OG.

As for email, read the issues queue in MailComment/MailHandler and the newer OG MailingList which is still at alpha http://drupal.org/project/og_mailinglist.

I don't think adding attachments via an email or reply to the OG works yet but seems to be some active work at present.

Otherwise you can always just provide a 'click here to reply' and take them to the OG page and save a lot of hassle  ::)

You can then set up your OG to provide tabs with eg Events, Wiki, Discussion, Documents etc if the committee wants something where they can do all their internal business.

Hope that helps and good luck.
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