[ckan-dev] orgs more clarification

[Toby Dacre]

On 27 September 2012 14:53, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 01:10:48PM +0100, Toby Dacre wrote:
>> On 27 September 2012 13:07, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> They can customise the forms as I'm building things but it is site
>> wise as there is only one type of organisation is this still
>> problematic?
>
> I don't know. I would guess that being able to customise site-wide fills
> most use cases, and customise per organization type is less important,
> but you would have to ask David. Arguably site-wide only does meet the
> spec as written, even if it's less flexible than what we have for
> datasets and groups.

I can at least make changes so that this will be possible in the
future, but for now I won't do much with it for now
>
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