[ckan-dev] orgs more clarification

Thu Sep 27 12:00:15 UTC 2012

On 27 September 2012 12:43, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:18:02PM +0100, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>> On 27 September 2012 11:11, Toby Dacre <toby.okfn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > * **Developers** can provide custom forms for groups and organizations, for
>> >   example to add custom metadata fields to groups or organizations.
>> >
>> > 1) For orgs is this on a site wide level?  I think this should be or
>> > else we are adding even deeper levels of complexity
>> >
>>
>> Yes it is on a site-wide level.
>>
>>
>> > 2) as I understand things this already exists for groups - can this be
>> > confirmed
>> >
>>
>>  Yes, I believe so -- though Sean may know more.
>
> Yes, this is IGroupController. It also exists for datasets with
> IDatasetController. I think the CKAN 2.0 merge may have broken
> IDatasetController, not sure about IGroupController (David reviewed this
> part of the merge, the controllers).
>
> I actually implemented IOrganizationController plus an example extension
> on Ross's organizations branch, you could look at that.

I know of it existance but not implementing it keeps things cleaner
and I don't know if it is something we require so I like rufus' don't
bother approach - unless you are aware of a client need

>
> _______________________________________________
> ckan-dev mailing list
> ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ckan-dev