[ckan-dev] CKAN integrations

Tue Nov 29 16:27:10 UTC 2011

Ah, the URL input is not meant to be on a second line! The CSS to control
that broke in the merge, too.
You are right about the 'available' message appearing too early.
Perhaps I should have ticketed these but it's just a couple of lines to
address it - I've pushed a small commit to the 1.5.1 branch, David could
you glance over it? Hope this takes care of all concerns.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:04 PM, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:

> On 29 November 2011 15:57, Tom Rees <zephod at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately a bad merge broke this feature, which is designed to
>> simplify everything you're having trouble with.  We've now resolved it and
>> redeployed thedatahub.org - I hope it makes more sense now.
>
>
> Cheers for this, Tom. @Mehmet, do you want to try this again now?
>
>
>> The latter part of the form allows you to choose the URL which your
>> dataset will have. Because you're only modifying the last part, we
>> originally called it 'name', but 'url' makes more sense... an outstanding
>> issue is that the server's error message still calls it a 'name' rather
>> than a 'url'.
>>
>
> The point is that it is not clear that you are only editing the last part
> of the URL. You are entering into a box below a URL in a field marked URL.
> I'm sure Mehmet is not the only one confused that you can only enter part
> of a URL here.
>
> Actually the error message talking about 'urls'
>
> BTW I think it is a bit weird that when you open this form you are
> immediately struck by bright lime green text saying "This URL is
> available!" when you have not typed anything yet, and a blank entry fails
> validation.
>
> David
>
>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:45 AM, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Mehmet,
>>>
>>> I think two things are wrong with our UI here:
>>> 1. there's an outstanding bug meaning that the 'Url' (or 'name') field
>>> doesn't get filled in automatically
>>>  2. the Url field looks like you should enter a URL, but that is not the
>>> case. You are expected to type an identifier (or 'name') for this dataset.
>>> This identifier will become the last part of the URL for the dataset. This
>>> can't include slashes etc. We've tried using 'name' and 'slug' for this
>>> field, and 'Url' is the latest iteration, and it may not be the best.
>>>
>>> @Tom is there any chance you look at these please?
>>>
>>> In the meantime Mehmet, just put a simple name like 'belgian-spend-data'
>>> for the dataset into this field.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> On 23 November 2011 17:17, Mehmet Koksal <info at mehmet.be> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear David,
>>>>
>>>> I tried to add new datasets in the Belgian section of CKAN but it's not
>>>> working :
>>>> error message : Url must be purely lowercase alphanumeric (ascii)
>>>> characters and these symbols: -_
>>>>
>>>> url entered is : http://data.gov.be/datasets
>>>>
>>>> What's wrong ?
>>>>
>>>> Mehmet
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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