Author Topic: How to get this organisation to work with CiviCRM and Organic Groups (Read 1136 times)

karlg · October 28, 2012, 07:14:36 pm

Hello,

I'm setting up an environment for a non-profit membership-based organisation which groups members in branches.

The Drupal web site has an Organic Group for each branch for grouping activities, articles etc etc.

Membership is centralised, but members should be able to nominate the branch they want to belong to.

We also want to capture people who come along to one or two branch meetings, but don't join. Perhaps, emailing them about an event in their area that they might be interested in. (I gather that CiviCRM would be the right way to go for this.)

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I set up a membership form in CiviCRM and a smart-group-based set of radio buttons for users to select their branch. Now, I'm looking at the process of having people who have successfully filled out the form being automatically added as a users of the Drupal site - and having them join the OG branch they selected in the CiviCRM membership form.. A quick search reveals that this is called 'reverse syncing', and that it is not possible!

This has made me think that I have gone about this wrongly with the set up..

Does anybody have any suggestions about how CiviCRM and Drupal could be configured to suit my organisation?

Thanks in advance!!

Karl

petednz · October 29, 2012, 12:15:14 pm

Hi Karl - i can offer some hints

Reverse synching does work - but not from Smart Groups. This would be a great addition but would require some funding/development. We have looked at it but backed off as we think it involves a substantial rewrite of the whole OG Synch code. It remains on our list though.

You can force people to create a Drupal User via a setting in the Profile you use on your Membership form.

One option for getting people to sign up to the right Organic Group is to send them to a Page showing the list of Groups - and let them self select - ie have them join at the OG end rather than at the Civi end.

Otherwise you could use a hook and get members added in to standard Groups - based on your radio buttons - but again requires coding.

karlg · October 30, 2012, 04:25:05 pm

Thanks for that Pete!

After thinking about it for a bit, it seems to me that the best way is to follow your suggestion to direct people to a Drupal page where they can select their branch.

(Now, I just have to work out how to do that!!!)

Thanks again,

Karl

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