[ckan-dev] Moving organization

Mon Oct 8 14:53:39 UTC 2012

I guess so. It might be a bit annoying to have to involve a sysadmin
in the case of community instances. Maybe a user who's in both orgs
should be able to do the move?

Mark

On 8 October 2012 13:50, David Raznick <david.raznick at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This was delt with.  The user story was this:
>
> **Sysadmins** can move datasets from one organization to another.
>
> This is adequate for most instances like data.gov.uk.
>
> Thanks
>
> David
>
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Mark Wainwright
> <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:
>> I've just looked at the user stories etc for orgs and groups. One
>> vital thing that seems to be missing (though perhaps this is already
>> being dealt with?) is a method for moving a dataset from one org to
>> another. This is likely to be wanted in various situations - e.g. (on
>> a community instance) I create some datasets in the 'default' org but
>> later realise I want them in a new org that I create, or (on an
>> official instance) responsibility for some area of government is
>> shifted from one department to another, and all the datasets
>> maintained under it have to be moved.
>>
>> The restriction that each dataset must belong to exactly one org makes
>> this a bit tricky, especially if the orgs are different departments
>> and have no members in common - it would seem to require two different
>> users to authenticate the change.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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