EDW group

Enable the group module to provide functionality for private tabs for a meeting.

Prerequisites

Recommended patches for group module:

"patches": {
    "drupal/entity_reference_revisions": {
      "#3364226 - Form error when no group admin role is automatically created": "https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/2023-08-02/group-form-error-3364226-12.patch",
      "#3104345 - Drupal\\group\\Plugin\\GroupContentEnablerBase::createAccess() must implement interface Drupal\\group\\Entity\\GroupInterface, null give": "https://git.drupalcode.org/project/group/-/merge_requests/86.patch",
      "#3397063 - Revisions tab appears twice on Groups": "https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/2023-12-12/group-revision-tabs-appear-twice-3397063-15.patch"
    }
}

Don't forget rebuilds the node access database: node_access_rebuild(TRUE).

Installation

1. Add the following snippet to the repositories section of your composer.json file:

{
    "type": "git",
    "url": "https://github.com/eaudeweb/edw_group.git"
},
{
      "type": "vcs",
      "url": "https://git.drupalcode.org/issue/node_access_grants-3494785"
}

And add drupal/node_access_grants to the exclude section of the https://packages.drupal.org/8 repository in composer.json

"repositories": [
{
"type": "composer",
"url": "https://packages.drupal.org/8",
"exclude": [
"drupal/node_access_grants",

2. Run composer require eaudeweb/edw_group:^1.0

3. Enable the module: drush en edw_group

Architecture

Group types:

• event - Meeting group type used to create groups for meetings.

Fields

Field label	Field name	Description	Field type	Cardinality	Required	Translatable	Widget
Title	title	Build-in	Text	Single	Yes	Yes	Text field
Meeting	field_event	Automatically populated when an user with permissions create a new meeting.	Node entity reference (Event)	Single	Yes	No	Autocomplete

Functionalities

The following functionalities are provided out of the box:

1. Group roles for Administrator and general users. If your website use another role as administrator (such as System) you need manually add new role by at: /admin/group/types/manage/event/roles.
2. Two new fields: field_groupsand field_moderator_groups:
   • field_moderator_groups - Users in these groups have the permission to edit the meeting/section and its documents;
   • field_groups - groups that can view the specific section; Go to /admin/structure/types/manage/{entity_type}/form-display and display these fields in the edit form.
3. Two permissions.

Other EDW modules:

• edw_blocks
• edw_decoupled
• edw_demo_data
• edw_document
• edw_event
• edw_media
• edw_paragraphs
• edw_person
• edw_project
• edw_themes
• edw_utilities