[ckan-dev] Hiding groups on CKAN sites

Thu Apr 18 11:45:47 UTC 2013

The groups functionality is intended to facilitate this so I suggest
renaming that!

On 18 April 2013 12:19, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:

> For most 'official' CKAN sites, groups don't make much sense. But if
> you look at other data portals, what a lot of them do have is 'themes'
> and the ability to search/facet by these - i.e. broad subject areas
> (using a vocabulary of their choosing). These are usually at least as
> prominent as publishers ('organizations', as we're calling them) and
> probably more useful in terms of people finding what they want.
>
> If someone wanted to do that in CKAN, what would be the best way -
> would it be by renaming groups, or something else like fixed tag
> vocabularies?
>
> Mark
>
> On 18/04/2013, Toby Dacre <toby.okfn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 17 April 2013 18:31, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:
> >
> >> > > 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
> >>
> >> I've started an extension for this:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-hidegroups
> >>
> >> so far it just hides the most obvious sightings of the groups feature
> >> that I've been getting asked to hide on client sites.
> >>
> >>
> > Probably good to add auth functions that disallow group things too
> >
> >
> >> Hiding the Groups link in the header doesn't work on release-v2.0 yet,
> >> waiting for a template pull request to get pulled into 2.0.
> >>
> >> I've added a github issue to get this into 2.1:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/okfn/ckan/issues/782
> >>
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