[ckan-dev] How to display more information on a resource?

Mon Jan 17 20:58:19 UTC 2011

Hello

I have been looking at ticket 862 <http://ckan.org/ticket/826> .
Technically it should not be too difficult if we go down the same route as
"package extras" and "group extras" which have extra key value pairs.

However,  I have no good idea how we can display this extra information.

Currently the resources are in a 3 column table, which has an add button and
the option to reorder.

 * If we can add arbitrary new columns then the table will grow too wide and
look bad.
 * We could add a horizontal scrollbar, which would look ugly and obscure
the new fields.
 * We could change it to a "continuous form" instead of a table but that
would muck up reordering.
 * We could add a javascript popup of key value pairs (on hover or click of
a info icon) that would look good but will not gracefully degrade without
javascript.

We also need a way to view the extra resource info in "view" mode, which is
currently just a table of 3 columns.

Has anyone got a good ideas about how this should be done?

Thanks

David
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