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I have started using the fantastic Webform CiviCRM Integration Module. However, I am having trouble trying to add some selects or checkboxes on a webform in order to have users add themselves to groups. I have made some groups which are visible to Public Pages. They are not Access Control or Mailing list groups.

So next when I set "Enable Tags and Groups Fields" to Yes on the CiviCRM tab of the Webform two lists show up one with my groups and one with tags plus the help message below:

You may choose options here and/or add this element to the webform. If you do both, options selected here will not appear on the form.

A. I tried multi-selecting some of the options, saving the form and no groups selector appeared on the webform so I assumed that the user would be added to all the groups automatically in this case - not what I want.
B. If I wanted to "add this element to the webform" how do I  do it? The other CiviCRM fields I checked off like "email" automatically inserted themselves in the list of webform components but the groups field did not.

I am wondering if I need to know the field ID of the groups field and manually add a component for it: If so where do I find the field id?

Thanks everyone....

In the multi-select, choose the first option: "User Select" - don't choose other options unless you want these groups to always be added.
"User select" creates a webform element (checkboxes) which you can configure to allow selection of the groups you want.

One followup question: Is it possible to have two groups of groups?
For example some of the components ask: "How many email fields to add?" but I notice the groups option does not ask "How many group selects to add". There is only the option to enable/disable groups. If possible I would like to have two groups of check boxes which add contacts to two totally different group categories.

I think that looking at this code from webform_civicrm_forms.inc it is not possible. It looks like only one groups field is processed.
If not possible using the module how might I try to accomplish this? I suppose Javascript?

      // Process groups & tags
      $field = 'civicrm_' . $c . '_contact_1_other_';
      foreach (array('group', 'tag') as $type) {
        if (!empty($contact['other'][1][$type]) || isset($enabled[$field . $type])) {
          $fid = webform_civicrm_aval($enabled, $field . $type, 0);
          $add = webform_civicrm_aval($contact, "other:1:$type", array());
          webform_civicrm_add_remove($type, 'contact', $node, $cid, $add, $fid, !empty($updating['cid'][$c]));
        }
      }


Hi Coleman,

Thanks for your work on the module and thanks for your assistance again. I am not sure if I understand your description of the changes about two columns I just hope it wouldn't limit the layout options available on the webform component. Our requirements for the multiple groups of groups/tags feature would be:  Since we are using multiple languages we want to translate the titles of each group of groups separately hopefully using the translated webform node.

I am not sure if we can sponsor this at the current time but if you can PM me an expected cost range I will bring it up at the next meeting.