[ckan-dev] Demo glitches

[Mark Wainwright]

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

http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/2812
http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/2813

> 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.

http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/2814

I don't see why waiting a long time when you click add is worse than
waiting a long time when you select the file to upload. In fact, it
seems to me obviously better, because it gives you time to change your
mind if you accidentally selected the wrong file (a core dump, a
compromising billet doux, ...)

Mark




> 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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