[ckan-dev] Issue 334 edit related on /app

Mon Feb 25 23:05:35 UTC 2013

>> > Not all related items belong to a dataset, so maybe this should change.
>> > On publicdata.eu <http://publicdata.eu> for example, none of the
>> > related items on the /apps
>> > page (also on the front page) belong to a dataset.
>> >
>> > so these currently cannot be edited/deleted?  is this the case?
>>
>> No, I did a quick test and actually it looks like I can update and
>> delete them via the api.
>>
>> What is the situation with this?  My view is for ckan to be good it
>> should
>
> * allow action via api
> * allow action via web front end
>
> Is the suggestion here that if we can do either route that's good enough?

As I said above, it's not obvious we need to allow these
not-actually-related related items at all. As no-one's jumped in to
contradict me, we probably don't need them, in which case I again
point out that we also don't need to spend time worrying about how to
handle them.

Mark