[ckan-dev] Hiding groups on CKAN sites

Wed Apr 17 12:33:23 UTC 2013

On 17 April 2013 12:28, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> We're pushing CKAN's new organizations feature a lot and encouraging
> people to use organizations instead of groups. A common request that I'm
> getting is to hide the groups feature from the front page, removing the
> "featured groups" from the front page and replacing them with featured
> organizations, and removing the groups link from the nav bar at the top
> of the site.
>

> This doesn't work very well because groups still pop up elsewhere in the
> interface, for example faceting by group shows up on the dataset search
> page (even if the site doesn't have any groups) and adding a dataset to
> a group shows up on the dataset edit form, etc.
>
> It seems when we added organizations to 2.0 alongside we didn't realise
> that many sites would want to use organizations and not use groups and
> therefore they won't want groups showing up all over the web interface.
>
> Is this something we should implement as a 2.1 feature? I'm thinking a
> boolean config option "ckan.show_groups = true" and if you set it to
> false, then groups are hidden everywhere in the frontend.
>
> This could be implemented in an extension first so it can be used with
> 2.0, and then make it into core in 2.1.
>
>
I think we should just do them via extensions in core in 2.1 and forget 2.0

> Let me know what you think about this idea
>
> P.S. Related to this we probably want an easy way to show featured
> organizations as well as featured groups on the front page, and to
> easily show/hide featured orgs and featured groups entirely, see earlier
> email "'Featured Organizations' on the front page"
>
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