[ckan-dev] [ckan-discuss] How we display groups

Tue Mar 29 14:20:56 UTC 2011

On 29 March 2011 15:07, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> Surely this is for ckan-dev :)

I posted to ckan-discuss because I thought non-developers might have
an opinion.  Have I misunderstood the purpose of the respective lists?

> On 29 March 2011 14:51, Seb Bacon <seb.bacon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been asked if we can do something about the overflow of the Group
>> name in the right hand column on this page:
>>
>>  http://register.data.overheid.nl/package/europese-aanbestedingen
>>
>> The reason is that the list display for groups is in the form
>> "group_tltie (group_name)", and of course group_name can't have spaces
>> and so can't wrap nicely.
>>
>> I was wondering if there's a good reason why we don't only display
>> group_title (if it exists) and group_name only when there's not a
>> title?
>
> I'd strongly suggest refactoring group listing as per package listing

I don't understand this...

> with a template helper method to generate individual items.
>
> Please ticket and I can point to relevant code or even help do it :)

Have done; and have assigned to you so you can explain what you mean :)

Seb