[ckan-dev] Packaging theme and model customisations

Thu Feb 10 11:16:10 UTC 2011

Hi Seb,

in general: have a look at https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckan-nl where
Richard did a fantastic job of putting together a simple theme overlay
for some basic pages (especially look at the way layout.html is used
to override some things from layout_base.html). For a customization
that includes a custom form and some plugins, see:
https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckanextiati

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Seb Bacon <seb.bacon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) A template override for the homepage, with some custom functionality

For the home page, overlay home/index.html

> 2) Some local CSS (override layout_base.html?)

I think there is a file called extras.css that CKAN looks for by
default but thats not included in the clean install. Just create one
and your rules will be looked at after the main style sheet.

> 3) An extension to the package model (two extra fields which aren't
> implemented with PackageExtras

Wow, what do they do? Can they not be modelled in some way? Otherwise,
serious monkey-patching of model/package will be in order. But,
please, what are your reasons? (This sounds like a maintenance
nightmare tbh)

 Friedrich

>
> (I realise for (3) PackageExtras would probably be the way to go, but
> for various reasons might not be practical in this case).
>
> Thanks
>
> Seb
>
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