Description

HOW IT LOOKS:

After installing the plugin, you will gain access to a new panel in administration, where you'll be able to set sitewide group layouts:

Those layouts can be later used by creators and owners of groups. ( If required, you can set a plugin to allow your users to create custom layouts, separate for each group as well.)

This is a preview of a layout:

This is a form of creating a new layout:

You'll notice some widgets are marked in orange. Those are widgets that are supported by plugin, though require other common plugins to run. Since we plan to add a large numebr of widgets to teh plugin in the future, this feature may occur very usefull. You can make those widgets invisible in settings.

Those are plugin settings:

When a group is created or edited, user can have two options. He can either choose the layout that admin created, or create his own layout. All layouts generate AJAX-loaded preview when chosen:

This is a panel for custom layout for groups:

You'll notice all widgets have visibility settings. Those settings allow to set who should see the widget on the group's page. This allows for a better customization:

The plugin runs well with:

• profile_manager
• forms

Supported widgets so far:

• Bookmarks
• blogs
• Tag cumulus
• XGadgets (vazco_xgadget plugin)
• Checklist (vazco_checklist)
• Products (socialcommerce plugin)
• Group news (vazco_group_news plugin)
• Group forums (vazco_groupforum plugin)

• Latest group discussions
• Events (event_calendar)
• Videos (Kaltura)
• Videos (izap_videos)
• Pictures (Tidypics)
• Documents (Pages)
• Group members
• Files
• Polls
• More to come!

Each time a new version of plugin from the list above appears, it's widget will be auto-updated. No more maintenance required here!

LIVE EXAMPLE

The great live example of this plugin is Challengesd.eu, a website we created at Elggdev.com. Website uses four standard group types:

• organizational group
• discussion group
• tematic group
• problem-solving group

This mechanism makes groups on the website much simplier and better personalized for end users.

INSTALLATION:

• place in  mod folder and enable

• In case you use profile_manager of forms plugin, place vazco_groups below those plugins on the plugin list