[ckan-dev] orgs more clarification

[Sean Hammond]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 01:00:15PM +0100, Toby Dacre wrote:
> 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

I think it's needed, basically most clients end up wanting to customise
the forms. Perhaps we can leave it for now and implement it when the
first client wants to use it, but I think David originally wanted it to
go in now.