Author Topic: Adding groups to membership form (Read 739 times)

karlg · October 15, 2012, 05:48:10 pm

Hello,

(Please excuse this newbie question if it's really obvious!!)

My organisation is grouped into branches - you are a member of the organisation through being a member of a branch.

I need the membership form to allow a person to select the branch they want to be a member of. At the moment, the branches are set up as groups, but not all groups are branches.

How can I add branch selection to the membership form?

Thanks in advance!!

Karl

Kurund Jalmi · October 15, 2012, 10:47:25 pm

Kari,

This can be achieved with some amount of custom coding. I would suggest following:

1. Include profile with Group field on your membership form.
2. Use buildForm hook to unset groups which are not branches.

This way users can select groups which are branches.

HTh
Kurund

karlg · October 15, 2012, 11:48:07 pm

Thanks for that Kurund!!

Unfortunately, I have two problems:

- The user should be able to select only one branch (mutually exclusive).

- I don't have the developer skills to use a hook..

Is there any other way?

Should I be structuring the data differently? Smart group, tag etc? The trouble is that I think it has to be group-based because some branch members are branch officers and need access to their branch data, and this seems to work well having branches/groups synchronised to Drupal OG groups, and having other groups as administrators of each group...

Regards,

Karl

JonGold · October 16, 2012, 08:42:04 am

Hi Karl,

If I understand your issue correctly, I think the way to handle this is to create a custom field "branch" with radio buttons. Add that to the membership form, and let the user select one. Then create smart groups based on the custom field. This should give you the UI you want without custom coding, but also allow you to make use of groups for syncing to OG.

karlg · October 17, 2012, 03:59:32 am

Thanks! I'll give it a try!

karlg · October 27, 2012, 04:33:28 pm

Hi,

I have now implemented smart groups so a member can select via radio buttons the branch they want to belong to.
Thank you.

The next question:

How do I link/synchronise that with branch organic groups membership in the Drupal side of the site?

Thanks in advance!!

Karl

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