[ckan-dev] Demo glitches

Tue Aug 7 15:11:05 UTC 2012

Hi Mark,

That's great, could you add 1 and 2 as tickets assigned to Toby and for milestone Demo phase 4?

I think the file upload actually works better this way, in that you're not then waiting a long time when you click add but I agree the resource url textbox can/might be confusing (and can potentially break stuff later on if you change it).  Definitely need to work out how we can avoid that.  Can you create a ticket for that one and assign to me.

Thanks

Ross

On 7 Aug 2012, at 16:00, Mark Wainwright wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> A few issues I found when testing the demo a few days ago.
> 
> 1. The 'What are Groups?' text at <http://demo.ckan.org/group> is a
> bit naff. Here is a suggested replacement:
> 
>>>> 
> What are groups?
> 
> Groups allow you to group users and data together so that they are
> easier to manage. For example datasets in a group could be visible
> only to group members, or publicly visible but only editable by group
> members.
> 
> Groups can be used to collect together datasets from a single
> publisher, or related to a particular project, for example.
> <<<
> 
> 
> 2. On the dataset page, the left sidebar is confusing.
> 
> - It starts with some random links. Actually they are links to groups
> which the dataset is in, but this isn't clear.
> - The sidebar elements that are actually part of the dataset are
> 'Datset extent' and 'License', so these should be at the top (if they
> belong in the sidebar at all), instead of which they are right at the
> bottom in the junk part of the page (i.e. probably lower than the
> bottom of the main page, and hence lower than anyone will scroll).
> 
> 3. Uploading a file behaves counter-intuitively (I would suggest wrongly).
> 
> When adding a new resource by uploading a file, I select a file called
> say create-group.png. I expect the following to happen:
> 
> * the pathname of that file is filled in the box;
> * nothing is actually uploaded till I hit 'add' (confirming that I've
> got the right file etc).
> 
> Instead of this,
> 
> * the file is immediately and, seemingly, irrevocably uploaded;
> * the box is filled with a mysterious URL
> (https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/ckan-demo ...)
> * the mysterious URL is so long I can't even see the final element,
> which is my file name.
> 
> 
> I also had some kind of problem with previewing but I can't seem to
> remember what it was ...
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
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