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While I've been working with Drupal for a while, I'm relatively new to CiviCRM, and am evaluating it for an upcoming project.

One of my main goals is to be able to sync members of an Drupal Organic Group to a Group in CiviCRM. I've successfully installed CiviCRM 4.0.5 on my Drupal 7.7 site. I've enabled CiviCRM, OG, and CiviCRM OG Sync.

When I add a group in Drupal, sure enough, a group is added in CiviCRM, with the creator as the administrator. Perfect.

But, when I add members to the same group, they are not added to the group in CiviCRM. I've fiddled with it for a while, tried multiple groups, multiple users, multiple settings, and have had no success.

CiviCRM OG Sync should give me the functionality I want, judging by its documentation — and I can even find where it should be occurring in the code.

So, I'm wondering if I'm missing something obvious? If there's something else I should be trying, etc.?

Thanks for any help!

I think eileen hs been picking up some OG synch issues - not sure if they relate to this problem though
http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-8622
http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-8621

Thanks for all the responses. Glad I'm not crazy.

I did some light debugging, and suspect the issue is in the civicrm_og_sync_og() function in civicrm_og_sync.module, line 90.

It looks like this function is intended to, among other things, add users to a CiviCRM group when hook_og() is fired. From what I can tell, hook_og() — which was called whenever a user is inserted in a group — is no longer in the OG API. (I could be wrong about that... but I can't find any reference to it in the Drupal 7 version of OG).

Since the hook's not getting fired, the only way to sync users is to directly call function — such as in civicrm_og_sync_enable() and _civicrm_og_sync_node_action(). Indeed, civicrm_og_sync_og() does get called when a new group is created (which is how the creator gets added as an admin in CiviCRM). It just also needs to be called when a user is added to a group, of course.

I realize that take on the situation is not nearly as helpful a patch, but hopefully it does shed some light.

OG is a complete rewrite for Drupal 7.  The hooks are documented in og.api.php in the og module folder.  From reading this discussion but not the og_sync code  it looks like there are helpful hooks for each stage of membership update in og...