[ckan-dev] Blurb on previewing

Thu Apr 26 13:35:23 UTC 2012

Oh, brilliant! I had made a note to ask you what this 'embedding'
stuff I was hearing about was. This is one of the features I asked for
when I first looked round CKAN (http://ckan.okfnpad.org/mark-notes,
s.v. 'Users and features': "persistent URLs for particular views,
visuals etc").

Mark

On 26 April 2012 12:37, Ian Murray <ian.murray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> I've just developed a new feature (for 1.7) that allows the data explorer
> preview to be embedded into third-party sites, similar to what's offered on
> openspending [1].  It'd be good to get a quick description of this added
> when we deploy 1.7 in a few weeks time.
>
>  - Ian.
>
> [1] http://openspending.org/uk-barnet-budget  (Embed button bottom right)
>
> On 25 April 2012 17:43, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> I've just added the following paragraph to the page on ckan.org about
>> data previewing (http://ckan.org/features/visualise/), but I'm just
>> running it by here in case I've got something wrong:
>>
>> "CKAN's built-in previews use the DataStore's API. If you have your
>> own data previewing tools or are planning to build them, it's easy to
>> plug them into the API so that you can create visualisations on the
>> fly, without the need for users to download the data."
>>
>> Sam - it's also unbalanced the page a bit, but as I'm not too au fait
>> with the "span offset6 ...." stuff I'll leave that to you ... :-)
>>
>> Mark
>>
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