[ckan-dev] Update on the ckanext-datapreview plug-in

Wed Jul 20 15:30:19 UTC 2011

> This looks great! Only thing I would suggest would be labelling 'Group
> Column' and 'Series A' with 'x-axis', 'y-axis' in brackets or similar
> just to make it slightly clearer and adding some instructional text in
> the right hand bar to explain/guide what the user can/should do.

Thanks, I'll look into adding this this afternoon. There's actually a
version up on the test server that you can try out.

http://test.ckan.net/package/uk-house-price-data

Currently the loading/saving is just a placeholder, I'm looking into
implementing this next.

> Question: would it be possible to add a button that lets the user
> highlight the cells she wants used in the graph (from the preview) as
> an alternative to picking the column name(s)?

Yes that's certainly possible, I'm not sure I'll get time to implement
it by Friday but I'm planning to include a todo/feature list in the
repository so I'll add it there if not.

Cheers,
Aron

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Ira <shevski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aron,
>

>

>
> Thanks,
> Ira
>
> On 19 July 2011 15:49, Aron Carroll <aron.carroll.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> Just wanted to post a quick update on the ckanext-datapreview plug-in. I've
>> spent about a day now working on the charting side of the plugin and using
>> the Flot jQuery plugin I have a very basic implementation up and running.
>> Where the user can select two columns to plot onto a graph. I've also
>> uploaded a screen shot of the current UI, http://cl.ly/8YlZ.
>> I'm now spending a little time refactoring the codebase (which has grown
>> from a simple script to a small application) to make it more manageable and
>> easier to extend in the future. Once thats done the plan is to add
>> the following features.
>>  * Serialisation and storage of the chart data to allow them to persist
>> between page loads.
>>  * Plotting additional series on the chart.
>> I'll hopefully be able to have a working build by tomorrow evening but if
>> anyone has any feedback on the direction it's heading it would be great to
>> hear from you.
>> Cheers,
>> Aron
>>
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