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Hi all - after running through the process a few times in the past couple of days, I'm just about to update the 4.1 wiki docs on setting up multi site/multi org (N Drupal sites + 1 CiviCRM database) and I'm scratching my head on one part of the behaviour.

Short summary, a.k.a., "the steps thus far":

• Install CiviCRM for Drupal Site1
• Insert a new Domain for Site2 to the civicrm_domain table
• Build navigation links for Site2 via MySQL import
• Install Drupal Site2 if you haven't already
• Install CiviCRM for Drupal Site2, either manually or auto-manually
• Configure Civi in Site1
• Configure Civi in Site2
• Optionally sort out Access Control for Sites1 and 2

As part of steps 6 and 7 above, one 'turns on' multisite for each Domain, and then must associate that domain with a Group specifically designed to gather/segregate contacts for each separate Domain in the multi-site set-up.

Here's the thing: at some point, the relevant group - the one that you are supposed to associate with a given domain - gets automagically created by CiviCRM, but I'm not sure when it happens. The domain group doesn't exist (see /civicrm/group ) before you turn on Multisite, but it also didn't appear immediately once I did turn on multisite - at least not in the four tests I've run in the last day or two with fresh installs. The last time, I was about to create a group for this purpose - had the 'add group' form open, and was called away - then came back and decided to check once more before submitting the form, at behold! there it was.

I'm just thinking that, if this is normal behaviour, I'll add a wee line about it in the docs, so peeps aren't pulling out hair needlessly. It would then be, like, some zen thing - configuring CiviCRM à la tai chi.

Aha! Thanks, Deepak. So, it's perfectly fine to go ahead and create a site group oneself if you've just set this up and are dotting 'i's and crossing 't's: if you've already created the group and set it up as the site/domain group, Civi groks the fact and carries on. Happiness!