groups

I'm putting together a small drupal site for a group of very non-technical users.  There are three departments that together make up the whole team.  Each department has different responsibilities (i.e. roles / permissions) on the site.  I needed to find an easy way for this role management to be handled by department heads and not the site administrator (user #1).  

A couple of modules exist that provide role management capabilities / permissions.  These include the RoleAssign and Roll Delegation modules.  These modules were not ideal however.  

I've had several folks ask about how I created group home pages that included tabbed content.  I had several threads on the Drupal forums that discussed how to accomplish this but I had always intended to follow up with an actual tutorial. 

Modules used in this tutorial

The following are the main modules I'll be discussing, however several of these modules depend on other contrib modules like token.

• Organic Groups (og)
• Views
• Path Auto
• Sub-path URL Aliasing
  • Requires: URL Alter
• Rules (optional -- see step 4 caveat)